Keep the £2 bus fare through 2024
“We’ll also invest £6.5 billion across the rest of the country, on schemes like keeping the £2 bus fare until the end of December 2024.”
- Delivered
Where it stands
The Department for Transport says the £2 cap on single bus fares ran from 1 January 2023 until the end of 2024, and was replaced by a £3 cap in England outside London from 1 January 2025. The cap's last six months ran under the government that took office on 5 July 2024, which kept it in place until the date he named.
What has happened
- Oct 2023The Prime Minister says the £2 bus fare will be kept until the end of December 2024, as part of Network North, Promised
- Dec 2024The £2 bus fare is due to run until the end of December 2024, Deadline
- Jan 2025Department for Transport: the £2 bus fare cap ran from 1 January 2023 until the end of 2024 and was replaced by a £3 cap from 1 January 2025, Delivered evidence
About the cost
No separate figure for the bus fare in the article: it is one of the schemes in the £6.5 billion he named for the rest of the country.
More detail
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