Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will expedite payment of the covid-19 Bus Services Support Grant to operators to ensure that those payments are made by the end of each restart period.

The Department is incredibly grateful to the bus sector and its key workers for providing services throughout the pandemic. These vital services have and continue to allow people to make essential journeys and enable key workers to get to their place of work.

The Department has provided an unprecedented amount of support to the sector during this time. We are continually looking to enhance the scheme’s operations including to the timeliness of payments.