Cambs CTOs still breaching rules
An audit of the finances of a community transport scheme has discovered little separation between commercial and ‘not for profit’ operations....
HCT and Section 19: here’s your answer
In our feature about HCT in relation to Section 19 licences, Dai Powell asks the question: ‘What’s the problem we are trying to solve?’ It is...
An open letter to Lilian Greenwood MP
Dear Mrs Greenwood, I was a keen observer of the Transport Select Committee debate on Community Transport, focused on the use of Section 19 and 22...
CTOs: the care sector, not transport sector
This could have been anticipated but CTOs are in the care sector, not the transport sector, and should have been better advised by their supporting...
Section 19: Transport Select Committee report recommends change
Main conclusions: Re-examination of local authority grant aid for CT sector DfT to publish details of S19 permits issued, and those used for public...
Section 19: the waters get murkier
It’s a mess, and the panic whipped up by the DfT’s new guidance for Section 19 and Section 22 Community Bus Permits shows little sign of abating...
S19: Agencies face searching questions
Managing Director of Surface Transport for London, Leon Daniels, has told the Transport Select Committee that loss of community transport services...
Time to call your local CTO…
As you will read here, the Transport Select Committee has now heard evidence from a number of key figures on the subject of the impact of the new...