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date	01/12/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with stakeholders on the potential merits of extending the bus recovery scheme beyond the current financial year due to the shortage of PSV drivers.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	85306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government is closely monitoring the shortage of PSV drivers, and is committed to working with the bus sector to encourage new entrants to the bus driving profession.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Coronavirus Bus Service Support Grant (CBSSG), over £1.5 billion in emergency support was provided to the sector. Additionally, £226.5 million in recovery funding will be made available through the Bus Recovery Grant (BRG). The Government remains in discussion with stakeholders to ensure funding challenges in the sector are addressed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 09/12/2021 11:38:24 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1383854

registered interest
date	01/12/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials have had with local authorities to assess the impact of the shortage of PSV drivers on school (i) transport and (ii) budgets in England in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	85307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has engaged with multiple Local Authorities on this issue, primarily through engagement with the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) and, the Urban Transport Group (UTG).</p><p> </p><p>Our colleagues in DfE are also speaking regularly to their contacts in local authority school transport teams about this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 09/12/2021 11:34:21 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders