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MPs query SB G operating costs
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• Local authorities were somewhat concerned about the operating costs of the Scottish Bus Group which had introduced a productivity scheme costing something in the region of £60,000, without apparently producing any increased productivity, claimed an MP last week.
The MP, Mr Harry Gourlay (Labour, Kirkcaldy), urged the Scottish Secretary to order the Group to provide information to local authorities, in Fife from which it had requested financial support for uneconomic routes.
Mr George Younger, Under-Secretary at the Scottish Office, replied that the Scottish Secretary could give the Group only general directions on matters affecting the national interest, and he did not consider that this was such a matter.
However, added Mr Younger, he understood that the Group had already supplied full information about costs and revenue on all the services for which it was seeking a subsidy. If it had not done so he would see that the county council got whatever it needed.