Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the (a) frequency and (b) reliability of bus services in (i) Barnsley and (ii) each region.

The Department publishes data on reliability & punctuality but not on frequency of bus services. The Department publishes data on average excess waiting time for frequent services at a regional and local transport authority level and the proportion of non-frequent bus services running on time at a local transport authority level only. Data for Barnsley is not available as figures are not collected at this level of granularity. The available data can found be in table BUS09 on GOV.UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1133041/bus09.ods.

The Government has invested over £3.5 billion to support and improve bus services since March 2020. This includes over £1 billion of funding for English Local Transport Authorities outside London to support the delivery of their Bus Service Improvement Plans and help to make buses more frequent, more reliable, easier to understand and use, better coordinated and cheaper as set out in the National Bus Strategy