Select Committee on Education and Skills Minutes of Evidence


Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers (ATCO)

  Some additional points we would wish to have incorporated into our evidence—

  1.  Please replace the first sentence of pargraph 19 of the ATCO written evidence with—

    "The aim of obtaining best value from the £2 billion of public sector funding annually put into all forms of road based passenger transport including school transport, local bus services and concessionary bus travel can best be achieved by setting flexible and meaningful local targets that reflect each LA's circumstances"

  2.  The requirement to register school services as a local bus service under the Transport Act 1985 should be retained for all services on which school children pay seperate fares to the bus operator and should only not be required on closed school contract buses where the LA has full control on who travels and allows only a small number of non entitled children to pay a charge for a spare seat.

  3.  Q116. Typical daily contract prices for school buses (50 seats) in the rural shires are likely to range from £120-190 with the average around £150 ie considerably higher than the figures quoted by Metro.

18 May 2004





 
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