Bus Services: Rural Areas

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allocating additional ringfenced funding to support rural bus routes.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 7th July 2020

The Government recognises the importance that public transport has for the sustainability and independence of communities, which is why we are providing a £20 million Rural Mobility Fund to support demand responsive services in rural and suburban areas and a further £30 million of funding to improve current services and restore lost services affected by COVID-19.

This is on top of the annual £43 million Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) directly paid to local authorities so that they can subsidise socially necessary bus services and the Rural Services Delivery Grant which in 2019/2020 provided £81 million.

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