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Our ref: 6974361
18-AUG-11
Dear Ms Chahal,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT – RESPONSE TO REQUEST
Please accept our apologies for the late response to your request for information
received on 06-JUL-2011 and which has now been considered.
You requested: 1) The number of bus services that received subsidies in your area in the last
financial year (2010/11)
Our response: 126
2) The percentage of bus services that received subsidies in the last financial year
(2010/11)
Our response: 20%.
Please note that the reference to a “service” may refer to a single bus, such as an
early bus, or a specific weekend bus, rather than a subsidy for the whole service.
Moreover, these may cover a service that runs once a week, for example a market
day service that would not be provided without the subsidy.
3) The amount that you spent on bus subsidies in the last financial year (2010/11)
Our response: Durham County Council spend = £4,408,524
4) The amount of money that will be spent on bus subsidies this financial year
(2011/12), in 2012/13 and in 2013/14
Our response: (Per net budget 11/12):
11/12: £3,331,353
12/13: £3,331,353
13/14: £3,331,353
5) The percentage cut that was made to your formula grant from Government this
year (2011/12)
Our response: 14.8% (= £34.3m). Please find attached the delegated approval
report regarding the cuts implemented by Durham County Council.
Our formula grant will be cut by a further 11.1% (21.9million) in 2012/13. Over the
2 years the percentage reduction to bus subsidy is therefore marginally lower than
the overall level of cuts to Council funding.
I hope that this information is of assistance, however, if you are dissatisfied with
the handling of your request please contact:
The Information Management Team
Durham County Council
Assistant Chief Executive’s Office
Room 4/140
County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UF
Tel: 0191 372 8371
Email:
xxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx
After you have exhausted our internal appeals procedure you also have a right of
appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 745
Fax: 01625 524 510
Email:
xxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
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requests will be subject to copyright protection. In most cases the copyright will
be owned by Durham County Council. The copyright in other documents may be
owned by another person or organisation, as indicated on the documents
themselves.
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commercial research purposes. The documents may also be used for the
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contact me for details of the conditions on re-use.
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you would need to apply to the copyright owner to obtain their permission.
Yours sincerely,
Lawrence Serewicz
Principal Information Management Officer
