Guidance

How to reimburse bus operators for concessionary travel

How travel authorities can reimburse bus operators who carry concession permit holders such as disabled and older people.

From:
Department for Transport
Published
1 November 2011
Last updated
2 December 2022 — See all updates

Documents

Reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel: 2023-2024

PDF, 1.22 MB, 118 pages

Reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel: 2022 to 2023

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Reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel: 2021 to 2022

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Guidance to help travel concession authorities calculate reimbursement to bus operators for carrying concessionary passengers.

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Published 1 November 2011
Last updated 2 December 2022 + show all updates

  1. Added accessible file: Reimbursing bus operators concessionary travel: 2023-2024

  2. Published guidance on reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel for 2022 to 2023.

  3. Published guidance on reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel: 2021 to 2022.

  4. 2019 to 2020 claims guidance released.

  5. 2018 to 2019 guidance published.

  6. Correction of an error in the 2017 to 2018 reimbursement factor figures in table 6.2. The corrected reimbursement factors are the same as those reported in the previous year’s guidance.

  7. Reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel 2017 to 2018.

  8. Guidance for 2016 to 2017 updated to explain how the forecast for inflation impacts upon the reimbursement factor.

  9. Guidance for 2016 to 2017 published.

  10. The guidance has been amended (see paragraph 6.14) to make the changes to table 6.1 clearer.

  11. Added guidance for 2015 to 2016 where table 6.1 has been updated using census data.

  12. 2014 to 2015 guidance added.

  13. First published.