Question reference: S6W-27244
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 2 May 2024
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Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 13 May 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17939 by Kevin Stewart on 25 May 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 1 May 2024, there were 732,654 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.
Aberdeen City | 30,715 |
Aberdeenshire | 36,247 |
Angus Council | 14,305 |
Argyll & Bute | 9,022 |
City of Edinburgh | 85,314 |
Clackmannanshire | 5,130 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 2,963 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 13,637 |
Dundee City | 23,109 |
East Ayrshire | 17,381 |
East Dunbartonshire | 13,712 |
East Lothian | 16,357 |
East Renfrewshire | 14,633 |
Falkirk | 18,543 |
Fife | 57,821 |
Glasgow City | 82,026 |
Highland | 22,727 |
Inverclyde | 11,696 |
Midlothian | 13,686 |
Moray | 10,757 |
North Ayrshire | 19,937 |
North Lanarkshire | 48,400 |
Orkney Islands | 2,189 |
Perth & Kinross | 18,514 |
Renfrewshire | 23,856 |
Scottish Borders | 12,385 |
Shetland Islands | 3,197 |
South Ayrshire | 11,947 |
South Lanarkshire | 44,416 |
Stirling | 11,126 |
West Dunbartonshire | 13,690 |
West Lothian | 23,216 |
Total | 732,654 |
This 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.