Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the oil price on the uptake of the Bus Service Operators Grant for tendered bus services.

Since January 2014, tendered bus services have not been eligible for Bus Service Operators Grant. Instead a similar sum to the amounts paid for tendered services in the past is devolved each year to individual local authorities. Therefore the amounts devolved are not affected by any changes in oil prices.