Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to support rural bus services in (a) Selby and Ainsty constituency and (b) Yorkshire.
The Government is investing over £2 billion in funding for Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) to deliver their Bus Service Improvement Plans (BSIPs). This includes £1 billion from redirected HS2 funding to level up bus services in the North and Midlands as part of Network North.
The support provided for bus services (including rural bus services) in Yorkshire is £137million. This includes:
Area | BSIP funding up to March 2025 (£million) | BSIP (Plus) funding up to March 2025 (£million) | Network North BSIP funding up to March 2025 (£million) |
North Yorkshire council |
| 2.9 | 3.5 |
East Riding of Yorkshire council |
| 2.3 | 1.9 |
Hull City council |
| 1.5 | 1.5 |
South Yorkshire MCA |
| 6.3 | 7.8 |
West Yorkshire CA | 70 | 7.8 | 13.4 |
City of York council | 17.4 |
| 1.2 |