Lord/B as it stands for every passenger using a Pass say in B and H the council have to pay the operator,however what the council does not have to do (apart from school buses) is provide a subsidy to any operator who says wants to run a service Brighton to HH.
Lord/B the half fare scheme was by far the best,you are now getting Free Travel holders making one stop journeys because they have a pass. Tell them that journey will be 70p 'oh i walk instead i am not paying that'.