Bus Vannin minibus costs

Summary

The requester asked for specific annual operating costs and revenue for Bus Vannin's minibus services regarding patient transport, Connect Ports, and myProm shuttles. The Department of Infrastructure disclosed that detailed minibus-specific figures are not held separately from the wider fleet, providing instead aggregate expenditure for the bus sub-division and specific costs for the myProm service.

Key Facts

• The authority does not hold information on minibus costs separately from the rest of the bus fleet due to mixed vehicle duties.
• Minibus vehicles often perform multiple duties simultaneously, such as transporting patients and paying passengers.
• Year-to-date expenditure for the entire bus sub-division from April to December 2019 was £951,202.
• Costs charged for the myProm shuttle service between May and November 2019 were £15,240.02.
• Revenue from non-DHSC patients for the period April to December 2019 was £4,583.

Data Disclosed

• £951,202
• £15,240.02
• £4,583
• 1 April 2019
• 31 December 2019
• 1 May 2019
• 15 November 2019
• 1100161
• 2019-12-12
• 2020-01-21

Exemptions Cited

• Information not held or cannot be found after taking reasonable steps

Original Request

What are the annual operating costs to Bus Vannin of operating :- 1) minibus services undertaking patient transport contracts. 2) minibus services undertaking connect ports services. 3) minibus services undertaking the myProm shuttle services. What revenue has been generated for Bus Vannin for undertaking each of these services.

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Full Response Text

Department of Infrastructure Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF

Contact: FOI Response Team Telephone: (01624) 686785 Email: dpo-doi@gov.im

Our ref: 1100161 21 January 2020

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 12 December 2019 and which states (sic):

"What are the annual operating costs to Bus Vannin of operating :- 1. minibus services undertaking patient transport contracts. 2. minibus services undertaking connect ports services. 3. minibus services undertaking the myProm shuttle services. What revenue has been generated for Bus Vannin for undertaking each of these services." While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find some of the information that you have requested. This is because some of the information is not recorded at a level of detail which would enable us to identify minibus figures separately from the rest of the bus fleet. The minibus fleet provides a range of services. Some vehicles are used almost exclusively for schools, others are used for transporting patients or clients with special needs, others provide the Connect Ports or Connect Villages services. Most vehicles and drivers will perform a range of duties in the day. Many vehicles will provide more than one service at a time - a Connect Ports service will transport DHSC patients whilst also carrying paying passengers. Much of this work is funded from internal budgets transferred from other Departments. The Department operates minibuses primarily to meet the needs of other Departments, their service users or, in the case of Connect Villages, as public transport. The aim of commercial operations is to generate an income from spare seats to reduce the cost of services that Government needs to operate. We have endeavoured to give as much information as we can, if necessary at a higher level. 1. & 2. For the bus sub-division as a whole, the year to date expenditure (1 April 2019 to 31 December 2019) was £951,202. 3. Costs charged for operating the myProm shuttle service in the period 1 May to 15 November 2019 were £15,240.02 (December figures not yet held).

Revenue 1. No revenue generated as this is covered by a budget transfer from Department of Health & Social Care 2. Revenue from non-DHSC patients was £4,583 from 1 April to 31 December 2019, however this service is predominantly patients with budget transferred internally from DHSCO to cover these costs. 3. No revenue generated as this was a service provided for the myProm team. Please quote the reference number 1100161 in any future communications.

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