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Free Public Transport (Under-18s) (PE1107)

Tuesday 21 April 2009 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 4 contributions · 3 speakers

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Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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PE1107, in the name of Robin Falconer on behalf of Highland Youth Voice, relates to public transport fares for all under-18s in full-time education and calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Government to make provision for young people who have no income to travel free or to pay only half of the adult fare. The petition has been before the committee previously, and I believe that ministers will deliberate on the issue that it raises in the very near future—in the next month, in fact. Do members have any comments?

John Wilson SNP Central Scotland
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I suggest that we keep the petition open until the Government completes its deliberations, ask it to respond on the outcome and decide then whether we want to take the petition forward. I am loth to close the petition when we do not know the result of the consultations that have taken place.

John Farquhar Munro LD Ross, Skye and Inverness West
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I agree with John Wilson that we should keep the petition open until we have received a more formal response.

Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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Okay. We will keep the petition open and bring it back to the committee when we have an indication of the Government's direction of travel on this matter. I just thought that I would get that joke in—it is one of the delights of convenership.

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