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'No feather-bed'

25th February 1984, Page 18
25th February 1984
Page 18
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BUSMEN reject any suggestion that the industry is "blindly feather-bedded", Bus and Coach Council president George Carruthers told Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley last week.

He was speaking at the BCC's annual dinner in London and said that recent Government claims of the industry receiving £313m in subsidy were misleading. This included such amounts as £254m for elderly persons' concesssions, a subsidy to passengers and not to bus operators.

Revenue support included the provision of services for socially necessary reasons.

Mr Carruthers added that the industry had developed a much keener sense of what can be provided commercially, with such measures as the National Bus Company's market analysis project.