Ms Anne Graham:

Due to the fact that entry into the free travel scheme was frozen for new entrants up to 2014, we did not feel it was appropriate at that time to impose conditions when they would not have been able to join the free travel scheme at that time. We can now consider the situation given that there is fuller access to the free travel scheme but it must be based on the availability on funding for that scheme and looking at what would be the appropriate discounts associated with it for private operators.