Concessionary travel statistics: year ending, March 2025
Concessionary bus travel statistics in England about the number of passes, bus journeys, reimbursement and expenditure.
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Revision
Following our usual process, this publication has been updated with data on next current expenditure on concessionary travel that was not available when these statistics were originally published (26 November 2025). The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have since published that data so tables BUS08di, BUS08dii, BUS08ei and BUS08eii have been revised to include it.
Revision
These statistics have been revised since the original release (26 November 2025), as a result of updates to the underlying data and a processing enhancement. They do not reflect changes in concessionary travel.
This revision mostly affected specific Transport Concessionary Authorities.
Changes include:
⠀⠀⠀• incorporating updates from Travel Concession Authorities
⠀⠀⠀• imputing data for net current expenditure for TCAs that were unable to provide figures
Impact on national figures
Headline figures for England remain the same to two significant figures. Statistics for the year ending March 2025 have been revised by:
⠀⠀⠀• -0.05% for older and disabled concessionary travel passes
⠀⠀⠀• no change to older and disabled concessionary bus journeys
⠀⠀⠀• +0.05% for average concessionary bus journeys per pass
Concessionary bus travel statistics in England about the number of passes, bus journeys, reimbursement and expenditure.
In England, comparing the year ending March 2025 with the year ending March 2024, there were:
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8.9 million older and disabled concessionary travel passes, up 1%
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624 million concessionary bus journeys, up 4%
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£795 million reimbursed to bus operators by Travel Concession Authorities, up 8% (constant prices)
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£995 million in net current expenditure on concessionary travel, up 8% (constant prices)
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Concessionary statistics updated with new data.
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