Current status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that transport operators provide 50% concessionary travel to the companions of holders of Saltire+1 entitlement cards on public transport across all local authority areas.
Under the National Concessionary Bus Travel Scheme for Older and Disabled People, a holder of a +1 National Entitlement Card is entitled to free bus travel for themselves and a companion travelling together with them for the same journey on local registered and long distance scheduled bus journeys throughout Scotland.
Local authorities have discretion to provide local non-bus travel concessions for their residents. Public Transport operators may also provide travel concessions on their services for certain groups of people as part of their own commercial operations. The extent and level of any concessions offered are for individual local authorities and public transport operators to determine.