The person referred to by the Deputy lives 0.7 miles from the pick-up point of the school transport service. As a rule primary school transport routes are planned so that no eligible child will have more than 1.5 miles to travel to a pick-up point. Pupils living off the main route of a service are generally expected to make their own way, or to be brought to convenient pick-up points along the main route. Home collections were never intended to be a feature of the school transport scheme. Accordingly, in the context of the general operation of the scheme, I regret that the present arrangement is the most that can be offered.