Public Transport Budget
Case reference FOI2023/00113
Published 7 February 2023
Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Herefordshire Council's Transport Department. Please may you provide me with:
The councils 2021/2022, 2022/2023 & 2023/2024 public transport budget and spend. Could this be broken down into spending for each transport category:
Support Bus spend (Subsidised Bus), Commercial Bus spend, Home-to-School spend, SEN Transport spend, Community Transport spend, Student Transport spend, DRT spend (Demand Responsive Transport), Dial-a-Ride spend, NEMT spend (Non-Emergency Medical Transport) and any others I have missed.
Response
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Herefordshire Council's Transport Department. Please may you provide me with:
The councils 2021/2022, 2022/2023 & 2023/2024 public transport budget and spend. Could this be broken down into spending for each transport category:
Support Bus spend (Subsidised Bus), Commercial Bus spend, Home-to-School spend, SEN Transport spend, Community Transport spend, Student Transport spend, DRT spend (Demand Responsive Transport), Dial-a-Ride spend, NEMT spend (Non-Emergency Medical Transport) and any others I have missed.
Public Transport Route Subsidies
2021/22
Budget - £801,264
Spend - £761,927
2022/23
Budget - £855,943
Spend (as of 31/01/2023) - £447,921
2023/24
No information held - this budget has yet to be confirmed.
Public Transport Concessionary Fares
2021/22
Budget - £1,240,000
Spend - £1,008,173
2022/23
Budget - £1,288,979
Spend (31/01/2023) - £638,293
2023/24
No information held - this budget has yet to be confirmed.
Herefordshire Council does not operate any bus services. We do not have any commercial spend as these contracts are operated by the bus companies.
Public transport budgets are not used for the categories below:
· Home-to-School spend
· SEN Transport spend
· Community Transport spend
· Student Transport spend
· DRT spend (Demand Responsive Transport)
· Dial-a-Ride spend
· NEMT spend (Non-Emergency Medical Transport)
Documents
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