Mr. Andrew Edwards:

In general a significant portion of our reliability has been driven in the past six months by the staff shortages. The general premise though is that there are other things that impact bus services. Anti-social behaviour is one issue. Traffic along the routes also has an impact where services then need to curtail the next journey because they are running so late. There is a wide range of reasons but a significant portion of reliability issues we have faced is down to the driver shortage.