Buses: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 6th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many zero emission buses had been allocated Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas funding as of 6 February 2024; and how many of those buses (a) have been ordered and (b) are on the road as of that date.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 19th February 2024

The following table presents information on the number of zero emission buses funded through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas 1 (ZEBRA 1) programme by local transport authority. The numbers in this table are not official statistics: they are based on the latest information available and are therefore indicative and subject to change.

ZEBRA 1 funding was awarded in March 2022 for local transport authorities except Oxfordshire who received funding in December 2022.

Local Transport Authority

Number of buses funded

Number of buses ordered

Number of buses in service

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

30

30

30

Kent County Council

33

33

0

Leicester City Council

116

116

74

Warrington Borough Council

105

105

0

South Yorkshire Combined Authority

27

27

0

Norfolk County Council

70

70

26

North Yorkshire County Council

39

39

0

Portsmouth City Council & Hampshire County Council

62

62

0

Blackpool Council

90

0

0

Nottingham City Council

68

48

0

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

170

170

0

Hertfordshire County Council

27

0

0

West Midlands Combined Authority

124

0

0

City of York Council

53

53

27

West Yorkshire Combined Authority

136

119

0

Oxfordshire County Council

159

159

9

1,309

1,031

166

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