Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of (a) the total number of bus routes each year over the past ten years (b) the total number of bus routes per local authority over the past ten years.

The Department does not hold the information that is being requested on the number of bus routes.

Bus service registrations are notified to the Traffic Commissioners. The latest published data from the Traffic Commissioners, which provides the number of all live local bus services in England outside London, can be found in the Traffic Commissioners Annual Report at the link given below. Bus routes in London are registered separately with TfL:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1080924/2021_Annual_Report_FINAL_220607.pdf