Profile of Transport Concession Card Applications

Mr Gan Thiam Poh asked the Minister for Transport since 2014, how many people have applied for transport concession cards, including senior citizens, students, Polytechnic students, those receiving wage supplement and people with disabilities.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport (Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim)(for the Minister for Transport): Mdm Speaker, from January 2014 to July 2015, around 760,000 persons applied for public transport concession cards, including children, senior citizens, students, those in polytechnic and university, full-time National Servicemen, those under the Workfare Income Supplement Scheme and people with disabilities. In total, around 1.6 million people currently hold concession cards.

I thank the Parliamentary Secretary for the reply. May I know whether the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will try to reach out further to those people who have yet to apply and what are the plans it has?

Madam, I thank the Member for the supplementary question. We are encouraged by the increase in the take-up of the various schemes. Quite a number of these schemes are new and many people have shared with us that they have benefited from such schemes. We will continue to reach out to the various agencies and organisations as well as to the public at large, to enable more of the public and commuters to benefit from the concessionary schemes that we have.