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Dear Derby City Council,

I am gathering information on bus and public transport provision as part of the Save our Buses campaign, which maps cuts to bus services across the country. We know that the Government has made deep cuts to local authority budgets, and that this is having an effect on the provision of local bus services. We would like to gather a national picture of bus cuts, so that we can explain to central Government exactly how their decisions are having an impact across the country.

My questions are as follows (in each case I am only after the information for your authority):

1. What is the agreed total budget for supported bus services in the fiscal year 2018/19

2. What was the total spend for supported bus services in the fiscal year 2017/18?

3. What was the total spend for supported bus services in the fiscal year 2016/17?

Note: This refers to the Department for Transport’s definition of a supported bus service as: “one where a local transport authority has invited tenders for the operation of a service (not e.g. seats on a bus or subsidised tickets etc), and a contract exists as a result of that tender”. Please, exclude extra sources of funding such as Section 106/developer funding, Community Infrastructure Levy, local authority staffing and publicity, RTPI expenditure and revenue, the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG), Local Education Authority funding for home to school transport, NHS-funded non-emergency patient transport, social services transport, voluntary transport and other central and national government grants or income streams.

4. How many and which supported routes are likely to have cuts in services in the fiscal year 2018/19 (for example loss of weekend or evening services)?

5. How many and which supported routes have had cuts in services in the fiscal years 2016/17 and 2017/18 (for example loss of weekend or evening services), listed for each year?

6. How many and which supported routes are likely to be completely withdrawn in the fiscal year 2018/19?

7. How many and which supported routes have been completely withdrawn in the fiscal years 2016/17 and 2017/18, listed for each year?

8. How many and which of the previously supported routes have been taken on commercially?

Our campaign also seeks to promote examples of councils which have protected bus services, sometimes in innovative ways. Please do feel free to share any information you feel is relevant on how your council has protected bus services.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Todd

Campaign for Better Transport

FOI, Derby City Council

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FOI, Derby City Council

I acknowledge your request for information received on 21^st March 2018
about bus services.

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested as soon as possible, but in any case by 20^th April the
statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOI) unless the information requested is subject to
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Kind regards,

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| Derby City Council, Council House, Corporation Street, Derby
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Dear Chris Todd,

 

Your request for information has been considered and part of the
information requested i.e. Questions 1-3 are attached.

 

We will send you the outstanding responses to Questions 4-8 as soon as
possible, once we have received them from the relevant department.

 

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

For your information this request has cost the Council £37.50 to process.

 

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Yours sincerely,

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Council, Council House, Corporation Street, Derby
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Dear Chris Todd,

 

Please find attached the revised response to your FOI Request 11237 which
includes the outstanding responses to Questions 4 - 8.

 

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused
you.

 

For your information this request has cost the Council £18.75 to process.

 

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Yours sincerely,

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City Council, Council House, Corporation Street, Derby
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