Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department does not collect and publish data on the number of different types of buses operating in England.

The Department’s annual bus survey collects data from local bus operators on the number of buses used as Public Service Vehicles, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/463857/bus0602.xls.

The Department also publishes vehicle registration statistics for the UK, based on information available through the registration process with the DVLA, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vehicles-statistics.

These include tables on the numbers of licensed buses and coaches disaggregated by make and by various other vehicle characteristics, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicles-statistical-tables-index.