School bus funding during lockdown (FOI)School bus funding during lockdown (FOI)
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09 June 2020.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
Are Liberty Bus still being paid for school buses whilst Schools are closed due to COVID-19?
B
How much does the Education Department or other States department pay yearly for this service?
Response
The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is already accessible to you on www.statesassembly.je within the responses to previous written questions (WQ). These can be accessed using the following links:
A
WQ.158/2020 dated 12 May 2020
B
WQ.186/2019 dated 30 April 2019
Please note that the costs of the school service cannot be disaggregated from the contract as a whole.
Supplementary information on Covid-19 and payments to Liberty Bus can also be found at the following link:
Government support for bus service
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