Cross-Border Concessionary Travel Scheme (No. 2)

EDM number 1369 in 2005-06, proposed by Graham Stuart on 16/01/2006.

That this House welcomes the 2005 Budget commitment to provide funding from April 2006 to every local authority enabling free off-peak local area bus travel for the disabled and those aged over 60; notes that such concessionary travel is invaluable to the rural and isolated communities of Holderness; further notes that vital facilities such as acute hospitals are based in different local authorities; and calls upon the Government to bring about measures to allow for cross-border travel to adjacent authorities and across regions such as Yorkshire to ensure that the elderly and disabled communities of Holderness can derive maximum benefit from the new scheme.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.