County Council

By Email Please ask for: Freedom of Information Tel: 01604 368360 Mr A Allen Our Ref: FR5967 [email protected] Your ref: Date: 16th September 2015

Dear Mr Allen,

Information Request:FR5967

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 11th September 2015. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and is detailed below in italics with our response in bold.

(Please note the extract below has been taken directly from your original information request and is unedited).

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am gathering information on bus and public transport provision in Northamptonshire County Council to chart which bus services would be lost without local government funding.

Please can you provide a full list of all supported bus services in the fiscal year 2015/16? Please include the service name and route summary.

This refers to the Department for Transport’s definition of a supported bus service as: “one where a local transport authority has invited tenders for the operation of a service (not e.g. seats on a bus or subsidised tickets etc), and a contract exists as a result of that tender”. Please exclude extra sources of funding or support such as Section 106/developer funding, Community Infrastructure Levy, local authority staffing and publicity, RTPI expenditure and revenue, the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG), Local Education Authority funding for home to school transport, NHS- funded non-emergency patient transport, social services transport, voluntary transport and other scheme-specific central and national government grants or income streams, such as funding received from Local Enterprise Partnerships, the Local Growth Fund, Local Sustainable Transport Fund etc.

Our Response

The Freedom of Information Team has been provided with the following information in response to your recent request on behalf of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC).

Please see table below.

Northamptonshire County Council County Hall Northampton NN1 1ED w. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk t. 01604 368360 e. [email protected]

Change in Contract ends operator etc later in 2015/6 Days of so far in and due to be Operator Description Service No Operation 2015/16 retendered KIER TRANSPORT All services County Connect MON-SAT Hannington and Mears Ashby peak 1, 39 MON-SAT Starts 1/9/15 Call Connect LTD Call Connect (4N - Nene Valley) (4N) MON-SAT CENTREBUS LTD Call Connect (4S - Stamford) 4S MON-SAT ADDISON TRAVEL The Lawns - - Exeter - ASDA 7 MON-FRI Starts 1/9/15 STAGECOACH MIDLANDS Towcester to Bicester 8 MON-SAT Ends 2/1/16 STAGECOACH MIDLANDS Barby and Kilsby diversion 10 MON-SAT STAGECOACH MIDLANDS Horton to Northampton 14 MON-SAT Z&S INTERNATIONAL - Northampton 33/33A MON-SAT - - Lake CENTREBUS LTD Avenue 34 MON-SAT BROOKSIDE TRAVEL Great Cransley to Kettering 35 MON-FRI STAGECOACH MIDLANDS Hannington - Northampton (Peak) 37 MON-SAT Ends 29/8/15 Hannington - Northampton (Off- peak) 37 MON-SAT Ends 29/8/15 ROY'S MINIBUSES Bozeat to Northampton 43 MON-SAT Welford - Northampton via Cold CENTREBUS LTD Ashby 60 MON-SAT Northampton - Guilsbro' / Scaldwell WED & CENTREBUS LTD / Norton 61 / 62 / 63 SAT Ends 29/8/15 Northampton - Guilsbro' / Scald / CENTREBUS LTD Norton / Hann 61-63, 37 MON-SAT Starts 1/9/15 CENTREBUS LTD Gretton to Corby 67 MON-SAT STAGECOACH Northampton - Rugby (certain MIDLANDS journeys) 96 MON-SAT STAGECOACH Northampton - Stoke Bruerne - MIDLANDS Towcester 86 MON-SAT STAGECOACH Northampton - Pattishall - MIDLANDS Towcester 87 MON-SAT Ends 29/8/15 Northampton - Pattishall - COUNTRY LION Towcester 87 MON-SAT Starts 1/9/15 STAGECOACH Yardley Gobion / Wicken to Milton MIDLANDS Keynes 90 / 90A MON-SAT Ends 21/2/16 Hargrave - Rushden / WED & CARTERS TRAVEL Wellingborough 125 SAT Brackley to Chenderit School via HEYFORDIAN TRAVEL Banbury 499 MON-SAT

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Janine Lythe Corporate Support Manager Northamptonshire County Council Room 223 County Hall Northampton NN1 1ED

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Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information/Data Protection Officer Business Intelligence and Performance Improvement Email- [email protected]