Question reference: S6W-17939
- Date lodged: 12 May 2023
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 May 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-14072 by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2023, whether it will provide an update on how many young people have now received a free bus pass through the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme, broken down by local authority area, based on the latest information available.
Answer
As of Sunday 30 April 2023, there were 619,900 cardholders under the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme. The following table shows the number of cardholders broken down to local authority level.
Total | 619,900 |
Aberdeen City | 26,659 |
Aberdeenshire | 30,871 |
Angus Council | 12,566 |
Argyll & Bute | 7,211 |
City of Edinburgh | 74,217 |
Clackmannanshire | 3,901 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 1,958 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 10,513 |
Dundee City | 20,668 |
East Ayrshire | 15,893 |
East Dunbartonshire | 11,084 |
East Lothian | 14,083 |
East Renfrewshire | 12,491 |
Falkirk | 12,189 |
Fife | 50,825 |
Glasgow City | 66,539 |
Highland | 18,243 |
Inverclyde | 11,302 |
Midlothian | 11,486 |
Moray | 9,047 |
North Ayrshire | 18,962 |
North Lanarkshire | 41,658 |
Orkney Islands | 1,756 |
Perth & Kinross | 15,313 |
Renfrewshire | 20,384 |
Scottish Borders | 10,445 |
Shetland Islands | 2,754 |
South Ayrshire | 10,069 |
South Lanarkshire | 36,492 |
Stirling | 9,020 |
West Dunbartonshire | 11,795 |
West Lothian | 19,506 |
Cardholder data is supplied by the National Entitlement Card Programme Office (NECPO). NECPO supports the 32 local authorities by assisting with the integration of various national and local public services on the National Entitlement Card (NEC) and are the joint controller with local authorities of this data. The figure includes travel products collected from the Transport Scot Pass Collect mobile app.