Current status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the cost of concessionary travel, including the Young Persons and Older and Disabled Persons Travel Schemes.
The total cost of the National Concessionary Travel Scheme for Older and Disabled People and Young Persons is £223,097,800.
This cost is for financial year 2020-21, and includes free bus and ferry travel and the Covid-19 Support Grant payments for the Older and Disabled People scheme, and bus, rail and ferry travel for young people aged 16-18 and volunteers up to age 25.