Guidance

Bus and concessionary travel statistics information

Guide to bus and concessionary travel statistics, including notes and definitions and supporting technical documents.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 10 October 2013
• Last updated: 26 November 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Accredited Official Statistics Status of Bus Statistics

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Annual bus statistics, quality report

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Annual bus statistics, survey questionnaire

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Annual bus statistics, survey guidance for operators

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Concessionary travel statistics, quality report

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Concessionary travel survey, questionnaire

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Concessionary travel survey, guidance for authorities

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Punctuality survey, questionnaire

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Details

Documents containing notes and definitions relating to bus and concessionary travel statistics.

• Last updated: 26 November 2025
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  1. 26 November 2025

     Bus statistics guidance updated for 2025.

  2. 27 November 2024

     Quality report and other supporting documents updated for 2024.

  3. 30 November 2023

     Updated documentation after 2023 statistics release.

  4. 26 April 2023

     Survey guidance and quality report for concessionary travel updated for the year ending March 2022.

  5. 28 June 2022

     Quarterly bus statistics, quality report for 2022 added.

  6. 3 November 2021

     Annual bus and concessionary travel quality report, survey questionnaire and guidance added for the latest report ending in March 2021.

  7. 28 September 2021

     Quarterly bus statistics quality report updated.

  8. 16 June 2021

     Quarterly bus statistics quality report updated for 2021.

  9. 16 December 2020

     Quarterly bus statistics quality report 2020 updated for the July to September 2020 report.

  10. 28 October 2020

      Annual bus statistics quality report 2020 added to the information page.

  11. 23 September 2020

      Quarterly bus statistics quality report for 2020 added to the page.

  12. 25 March 2020

      National Statistics designation HTML page added.

  13. 17 December 2019

      Concessionary travel notes and definitions updated.

  14. 30 January 2019

      Concessionary travel notes and definitions document updated.

  15. 14 December 2017

      Concessionary travel notes and definitions document updated.

  16. 18 October 2016

      Concessionary travel notes and definitions document updated.

  17. 10 October 2013

      First published.