Buses
(asked on 24th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many buses in total are currently operating in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland; and what proportion of these buses are (i) electric, (ii) hybrid-diesel, (iii) biomethane, (iv) diesel and (v) other fuels.
The requested figures are in the tables below. The Department does not collect this data for Northern Ireland.
Table 1 – Number of buses used as Public Service Vehicles by local bus operators as at 31 March 2021
Thousand
Financial year | England | Scotland | Wales | Great Britain | ||
2020/21 | 32.7 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 37.8 |
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Source: DfT Annual Bus Statistics (BUS0602)
Table 2 – Percentage of buses used as Public Service Vehicles by fuel consumption type as at 31 March 2021
Fuel Consumption Type | England | Scotland | Wales | Great Britain | ||
Hydrogen | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
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Electric (not hybrid) | 2% | 2% | 0% | 2% |
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Diesel-Hybrid | 14% | 7% | 0% | 13% |
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Methane/Biomethane | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
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Diesel | 79% | 87% | 98% | 81% |
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Other (including Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO)) | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
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Unknown | 3% | 6% | 2% | 3% |
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Source: DfT Annual Bus Statistics (BUS0609b)