Travel passes and concessions

Concessionary fares and passes, eligibility, reimbursement and schemes.

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Guidance and regulation

• Assessing eligibility for concessionary bus travel
  • Guidance
  • 1 April 2025
  • Department for Transport
• How to reimburse bus operators for concessionary travel
  • Guidance
  • 20 November 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Clarification on eligibility for concessionary bus travel
  • Guidance
  • 8 June 2016
  • Department for Transport
• Managing the English national concessionary travel scheme (ENCTS)
  • Guidance
  • 10 July 2024
  • Department for Transport
• How bus operators can appeal concessionary fare scheme reimbursement levels
  • Guidance
  • 9 April 2024
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• New campaign to boost free bus travel this summer
  • 15 July 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• A fair deal for young people
  • 19 February 2014
  • Department for Transport
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Concessionary travel statistics: year ending March 2024 (revised)
  • 27 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Official statistics
• Bus statistics data tables
  • 27 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistical data set
• National Travel Attitudes Study: Wave 10
  • 12 June 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Official statistics
• Travel Survey for Northern Ireland In-depth Report 2021
  • 7 December 2023
  • Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Concessionary travel statistics: year ending March 2023
  • 30 November 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Review of English bus concession regulations
  • 26 April 2016
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• Post legislative assessment of the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007: memorandum to the Transport Select Committee
  • 16 July 2012
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Transport