Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what level of reductions in bus services operators are able to introduce and still be eligible for covid-19 recovery funding for bus services.

Operators receiving the Bus Recovery Grant (BRG) must agree a baseline for their pre-pandemic, scheduled commercial mileage with their Local Transport Authority. They must then run a minimum of 90% of their pre-pandemic scheduled commercial mileage receive funding. Operators receive more funding if they run more mileage, to encourage operators to run as close to 100% as possible.