Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Bus Back Better: national bus strategy for England, published on 15 March 2021, what his planned timetable is for the review of the rights of local authorities to set up new municipal bus companies.

The Department intends to publish a Call for Evidence , as the first part of a review into whether it remains right that local authorities cannot set up new municipal bus companies.