Further to the answer to question S6W-17939 by Kevin Stewart on 25 May 2023, whether it will provide an update on how many young people hav…

As of 1 May 2024, there were 732,654 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.
Aberdeen City
30,715
Aberdeenshire
36,247
Angus Council
14,305
Argyll & Bute
9,022
City of Edinburgh
85,314
Clackmannanshire
5,130
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
2,963
Dumfries and Galloway
13,637
Dundee City
23,109
East Ayrshire
17,381
East Dunbartonshire
13,712
East Lothian
16,357
East Renfrewshire
14,633
Falkirk
18,543
Fife
57,821
Glasgow City
82,026
Highland
22,727
Inverclyde
11,696
Midlothian
13,686
Moray
10,757
North Ayrshire
19,937
North Lanarkshire
48,400
Orkney Islands
2,189
Perth & Kinross
18,514
Renfrewshire
23,856
Scottish Borders
12,385
Shetland Islands
3,197
South Ayrshire
11,947
South Lanarkshire
44,416
Stirling
11,126
West Dunbartonshire
13,690
West Lothian
23,216
Total
732,654
This 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.