Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much in each (a) funding stream and (b) region his Department has provided in subsidy to each bus operator in each of the last four years.

In the last four years, the Department for Transport has paid funding directly to bus operators in England through the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) and the Green Bus Fund.

Details of BSOG funding paid to bus operators in the last three financial years is available online. It is not possible to provide this data broken down by region or for earlier years. The data are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-english-operators-up-to-31-march-2013

Details of funding paid to bus operators through the Department's Green Bus Fund, broken down by bus operator and region, for all four rounds of the Green Bus Fund (which ran from 2009 to 2013) are available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/details-of-the-green-bus-fund