Further to the answer to question S6W-09016 by Jenny Gilruth on 23 June 2022, whether it will provide updated figures on how many young peo…

The following table shows the number of cardholders under the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme as of the end of the day on 12 September 2022, broken down to local authority level.
This data is supplied by the National Entitlement Card Programme Office (NECPO). NECPO support the 32 local authorities by assisting with the integration of various national and local public services on the National Entitlement Card (NEC) and are the joint controller with local authorities of this data. The table includes travel products collected from the Transport Scot Pass Collect mobile application.
Local Authority
Cardholders
Aberdeen City
21,431
Aberdeenshire
24,031
Angus Council
7,120
Argyll & Bute
5,589
City of Edinburgh
58,777
Clackmannanshire
2,780
Comhairie nan Eilean Siar
1,382
Dumfries and Galloway
8,739
Dundee City
17,282
East Ayrshire
14,084
East Dunbartonshire
8,340
East Lothian
11,226
East Renfrewshire
8,723
Falkirk
9,054
Fife
41,233
Glasgow City
52,152
Highland
13,341
Inverclyde
10,775
Midlothian
8,507
Moray
6,996
North Ayrshire
15,812
North Lanarkshire
27,591
Orkney Islands
1,288
Perth & Kinross
12,039
Renfrewshire
17,193
Scottish Borders
9,087
Shetland Islands
2,487
South Ayrshire
6,492
South Lanarkshire
28,143
Stirling
6,612
West Dunbartonshire
9,638
West Lothian
15,987
Total
483,931