Further to the answer to question S6W-14072 by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2023, whether it will provide an update on how many young people…

As of Sunday 30 April 2023, there were 619,900 cardholders under the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme. The following table shows the number of cardholders broken down to local authority level.
Total
619,900
Aberdeen City
26,659
Aberdeenshire
30,871
Angus Council
12,566
Argyll & Bute
7,211
City of Edinburgh
74,217
Clackmannanshire
3,901
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
1,958
Dumfries and Galloway
10,513
Dundee City
20,668
East Ayrshire
15,893
East Dunbartonshire
11,084
East Lothian
14,083
East Renfrewshire
12,491
Falkirk
12,189
Fife
50,825
Glasgow City
66,539
Highland
18,243
Inverclyde
11,302
Midlothian
11,486
Moray
9,047
North Ayrshire
18,962
North Lanarkshire
41,658
Orkney Islands
1,756
Perth & Kinross
15,313
Renfrewshire
20,384
Scottish Borders
10,445
Shetland Islands
2,754
South Ayrshire
10,069
South Lanarkshire
36,492
Stirling
9,020
West Dunbartonshire
11,795
West Lothian
19,506
Cardholder data is supplied by the National Entitlement Card Programme Office (NECPO). NECPO supports 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 figure includes travel products collected from the Transport Scot Pass Collect mobile app.