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1686004

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8274 on Transport: North Shropshire, how the £1 billion allocated for Bus Service Improvement Plans will be spent in each local authority.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	12195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government asked for every local authority to work with their bus operators to develop a clear, detailed, and ambitious local Bus Service Improvement Plans. Local authorities, working with local operators, will determine how best to support local services.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/02/2024 12:11:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1671408

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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, how much funding his Department has provided for bus services in real terms in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	2631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has provided a total of £3.47 billion (£2.8 billion in real terms (2010/11 prices)) for bus services between 2018/19 to 2022/23. This includes the Bus Service Operators Grant, Covid-19 Bus Service Support Grant, Bus Recovery Grant, Commonwealth Games funding, £2 Bus Fare Cap, and Bus Service Improvement Plan funding.</p><p> </p><p>The breakdown of this by year is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2018/19 - £244 million (£215 million in 2010/11 prices)</p><p>2019/20 - £249 million (£214 million in 2010/11 prices)</p><p>2020/21 - £1.2 billion (£974 million in 2010/11 prices)</p><p>2021/22 - £899 million (£729 million in 2010/11 prices)</p><p>2022/23 - £873 million (£671 million in 2010/11 prices)</p><p>In addition, on 4 October, as part of Network North, we announced a further £1 billion from redirected HS2 funding to level up bus services in the North and Midlands via BSIP, making them more frequent, more reliable, cheaper, and easier to use. We are also extending the £2 bus fare cap until the end of 2024, meaning we are investing nearly £600 million in total to cap bus fares across England since the scheme was launched. On top of this, we have announced that a new uplift of 60% will be added to Community Transport Operators’ (CTOs) Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) claims until 31 March 2025.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/11/2023 14:22:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1670062

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2023 to Question 1195 on Bus Services: Finance, whether the £150 million of redirected HS2 funding formed part of his Department's Capital budget before 4 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The £150 million of redirected HS2 funding did not form part of the Department’s Capital budget prior to 4 October 2023.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 20/11/2023 14:57:17 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1668908

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
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, with reference to his Departments news story entitled Major £150 million funding boost for local bus services as fare cap set to be extended, published on 23 October 2023, whether the £150 million of redirected HS2 funding (a) previously formed and (b) now forms part of his Department's (i) capital or (ii) resource budget.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The £150m is new funding that is in addition to the £1.1 billion for BSIPs announced in 2022 and 2023, as well as the £300 million to protect and enhance bus services through Bus Service Operators Grant plus (BSOG+) and Bus Services Improvement Plan plus (BSIP+) announced in May this year.</p><p>The £150m will form part of the department’s Resource budget in the 24/25 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/11/2023 14:52:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1656923

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing a long-term funding system for bus (a) operators and (b) manufacturers.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	196586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport recently announced a long-term approach to protect and improve bus services backed by an additional £300 million until April 2025. £140 million of this funding will go to bus operators to support services, and the remaining £160 million will go to Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) to protect and enhance bus services, and support local fares initiatives.</p><p> </p><p>We also make available up to £259 million every year for bus operators and LTAs to keep fares down and run services that might otherwise be unprofitable and could lead to cancellation through the Bus Service Operators Grant.</p><p> </p><p>The Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme did not provide funding for bus manufacturers; however, we have provided £269.57 million to Local Transport Authorities to support the introduction of 1,300 zero emission buses and supporting infrastructure. This is part of the government’s wider investment in zero-emission buses (ZEBs), which totals over £450m and funded an estimated 4,200 ZEBs across the UK so far.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 11/09/2023 11:40:42 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1651961

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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 assessment his Department had made of the potential impact of (a) reduced or (b) higher levels of funding to bus operators in the extension of the Bus Recovery Grant funding settlement.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	193467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government provided over £2 billion in emergency and recovery funding for bus services in England outside London from March 2020 through to 30 June 2023, when the Bus Recovery Grant ended. On 17 May, the Government announced a long-term approach to support and improve bus services with an additional £300 million from July 2023 until April 2025. £160 million of this funding is going to Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) to protect and enhance bus services, and support local fares initiatives, and £140 million will go to bus operators to protect services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department carefully considers the impact on the bus sector of all funding decisions alongside value for money for the taxpayer for any interventions.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 17/07/2023 15:02:30 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1644363

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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 was the average length time between allocating funding and buses operating for buses funded through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	189459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not estimated this.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 19/06/2023 13:02:59 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1611657

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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, how much funding his Department has provided (a) for the provision of £2 single fares and (b) in total for bus services in each (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	181201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is providing up to £135 million to help over 140 operators covering more than 5,000 routes in England outside London cap single fares at £2 from 1 January to 30 June. The majority of funding is paid to commercial operators, and the amount each individual operator receives is commercially sensitive. A small number of Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) have received funding for a particular type of service to participate in the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also provided over £2 billion in emergency and recovery funding to bus operators and all English LTAs outside London since March 2020. LTAs have been allocated around £282 million of this funding. Where LTAs have received allocations for the £2 fare cap or through emergency and recovery funding grants, they are free to publish information on their funding allocations. Funding to commercial operators is not currently recorded in a way that allows it to be easily reported by local authority or by parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport also provides around £250m every year through the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) to bus operators and LTAs help support services. £42 million of this funding is provided to LTAs and details on yearly allocations can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-local-authorities-from-2013-onwards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-local-authorities-from-2013-onwards</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 26/04/2023 10:04:46 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1601610

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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, with reference to the policy paper entitled Bus Back Better, published on 15 March 2021, how much funding his Department has allocated to the Bus Centre of Excellence programme since its establishment; and what the budget for this programme will be in the 2023-24 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	159104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The budget will be taken from the £15m allocated for strengthening bus capacity and capability in the period 2022/23 to 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 13/03/2023 09:33:16 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1585013

registered interest
date	07/02/2023
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, whether he plans to extend Bus Recovery Grant funding beyond March 31 2023.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	141621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government has made available nearly £2 billion since March 2020, through emergency and recovery grants, to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on the bus sector. This support is currently in place until the end of March 2023. The Department is actively considering its support for the bus sector from April 2023 and will set out further details shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 15/02/2023 12:00:05 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley