Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what initiatives her Department has considered to help encourage the conversion of buses to electric power.

The transition to zero-emission buses (ZEBs) represents a great opportunity for UK bus manufacturers and repowering companies, both to supply the electric buses needed here in the UK and to win export orders abroad as other countries upgrade their bus fleets.

The Government recognises the value that repower conversion can provide to advancing the decarbonisation of the bus fleet. We are encouraged by recent developments in the sector, including continued orders placed by operators for repowered buses in depots that have been electrified under ZEBRA.

Future bus funding is still being considered in the round as part of the Spending Review, including funding to support ZEBs.