MP Kate Green has demanded answers from transport chiefs over the loss of late night bus services to Flixton.

Residents contacted the Stretford and Urmston MP concerned that the 256 bus service, which runs from Manchester Piccadilly to Flixton, has recently ended its late night services.

The last bus on the route now leaves at 11.10pm, which has hit Flixton residents who work later shifts in the city centre.

This has left workers having to either pay more than £30 in a taxi to get home, or turn down work due to inadequate public transport.

Ms Green has written to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) to ask if anything can be done to reinstate the later bus service.

But transport bosses insist that funding cuts mean they can't help.

Ms Green said:“I’m very concerned to hear that the late night service on the 256 to Flixton has been cut.

“Many of my constituents are reliant on later bus services to come home after work or social events.

“It’s an especially frustrating situation when people are offered work but have to refuse it because of poor public transport."

But TfGM said budgetary pressures mean it has to make savings of 20 per cent - £7.1 million - in its supported bus services budget over the next two years.

A spokesperson for TfGM, said: “We remain committed to providing excellent public transport and protecting essential bus services as far as possible. But like all local authorities, we are now under huge pressure to make major savings as a result of national spending cuts.

“As part of the approach agreed by the TfGM committee to making these savings, we are no longer renewing contracts for subsidised night bus services.

“In this instance the bus operator has taken a commercial decision not to pick up the late night weekend journeys on the 256 service.

“This is regrettable but, due to the funding shortfall, if TfGM were to consider replacing withdrawn nightbus services, further daytime and evening services could be lost with loss of links to education, employment and key services."