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Beryl Jones
Swyddog Gwybodaeth Corfforaethol a Chwynion – Adain Gyfreithiol, Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn
Corporate Information and Complaints Officer- Legal Section, Isle of Anglesey County Council

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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I refer to your Freedom of Information request dated the 23^rd November,
2016.  May I pass on sincere apologies for the delay in replying.

 

Please find below the Authority’s response to your request:-

 

Questions:-

 

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 only with respect to Isle of
Anglesey Council:

 

1. What is the total budget for supported bus services in the fiscal year
2016/17?

 

2. What was total budget for supported bus services in the fiscal year
2015/16?

 

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.

 

3. What is the fiscal year 2016/17 budget for supported bus services as a
percentage of the total transport budget?

 

Note: For the purposes of this request 'transport' includes highway
maintenance, home to school/college transport; adult social care
transport; demand responsive transport; special educational need transport
and voluntary driver schemes, cycling and walking, roads spending,
supported bus services and fares. Please include the council’s
contributions to projects jointly funded by multiple organisations, but
exclude contributions from those other organisations and funding streams,
such as Local Enterprise Partnerships, private sector contributions, Local
Growth Fund, Department for Transport contributions to Local Authority
Major Projects, Local Sustainable Transport Fund etc.

 

4. What proportion of total council expenditure (capital and current) is
constituted by local bus funding?

 

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

 

6. How many and which supported routes have been completely withdrawn in
the fiscal year 2016/17?

 

7. Does your council provide free school transport to nearest or catchment
school, or to nearest school only? If nearest school only, please indicate
if this is a change since Jan 2012.

 

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.

 

Answers:-

 

1. £434,780.00

2. £494,780.00

3. Information not readily available.

4. Information not readily available.

5. None

6. None

7. Nearest and Catchment school

 

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been provided for your personal use and may not be copied, distributed,
published or exploited for any commercial purposes or financial gain
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Council.

 

If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of this response to your request
for information and/or the decision made to withhold information, you may
ask for an internal review.  Please address your correspondence to the
Customer Care Officer, Legal Services, Council Offices, Llangefni, Ynys
Môn, LL77 7TW (e-mail: [1][email address]).

 

If you are not content with the outcome of an internal review you have the
right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF.  Please note that the Information
Commissioner is likely to expect internal review procedures to have been
exhausted before beginning his investigation.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

 

Helen Jeffery

Swyddog Gofal Cwsmer / Customer Care Officer

Priffyrdd, Gwastraff ac Eiddo / Highways, Waste and Property

Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn / Isle of Anglesey County Council

LLANGEFNI

Ynys Môn / Anglesey

LL77 7TW

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