Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government has provided to each local authority in England for local bus services in each of the last five years.

All local authorities are required to publish details of their expenditure on buses. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities also publishes data on local authority expenditure.

The Government has committed £3 billion to transform bus services in this Parliament. This funding includes £1.1 billion new funding for bus transformation deals for local transport authorities to deliver London-style fares, infrastructure and service improvements; £525 million to deliver zero emission buses over this Parliament; and around £780 million from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements that will directly fund bus infrastructure.

The Government has also provided nearly £2 billion in emergency funding for local authorities and bus operators to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic since March 2020. £221 million of this emergency funding was provided directly to local transport authorities.

The Government also provides £42 million per year to Local Transport Authorities under the Bus Service Operators Grant. The Department for Transport publishes data on the funding given to Local Transport Authorities for the Bus Service Operators Grant on GOV.UK. Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-local-authorities-from-2013-onwards.