Health of the bus market inquiry

Inquiry by the Transport Committee, 9 July 2018 to 18 October 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 9th Report - Bus services in England outside London (22 May 2019)
• 9th Report - Bus services in England outside London (Enhanced HTML) (22 May 2019)
• 9th Report - Bus services in England outside London [Easy Read] (10 June 2019)
• 1st Special Report - Bus services in England outside London: Government response to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2017–19 (18 October 2019)

Evidence sessions

• 30 October 2018: Claire Haigh, Chief Executive, Greener Journeys, Linda McCord, Senior Stakeholder Manager, Transport Focus, Darren Shirley, Chief Executive, Campaign for Better Transport, and Claire Walters, Chief Executive, Bus Users UK; Tom Forth, Head of Data, and Neil McClure, Head of Transport Innovation, ODI Leeds, and Nick Richardson, Director & Trustee, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
• 12 November 2018: Tim Bowles, Mayor of the West of England, Jason Humm, Head of Transport, West of England Combined Authority, Karen Rose, Community Transport Adviser, Derek Fishpool, Devon County Council, and Ralph Ellis, Public Transport Officer, Plymouth City Council.
• 26 November 2018: Mick Lynch, Assistant General Secretary, RMT, and Bobby Morton, National Officer, Unite the Union; Martin Dean, Managing Director, Bus Development, Go-Ahead Group plc, Bill Hiron, Chair, and Malcolm Robson, ALBUM, Alex Hornby, CEO, Trandsdev Blazefield, and Steven Salmon, Director of Policy Development, Confederation of Passenger Transport (UK) (at 5.45pm).
• 14 January 2019: Matthew Goggins, Head of Bus, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, Merseytravel, Howard Farrall, Area Managing Director, Arriva Merseyside, Rob Jones, Regional Managing Director, Stagecoach Merseyside
• 30 January 2019: Paul Woods, Interim Chief Finance Officer, North East Combined Authority and Local Government Association, James Carney, Finance Director, Blackpool Transport, Giles Fearnley, Managing Director, First Bus, John Godfrey, Principal Consultant, TAS Partnership
• 13 February 2019: Nusrat Ghani MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, and Catriona Henderson, Head of Buses and Taxis, Department for Transport.