Buses: Exhaust Emissions
(asked on 30th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the total amount of funding allocated to local transport authorities under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme where the procurement process has not yet been completed.
We have committed to funding 4,000 zero emission buses (ZEBs) this Parliament. Since February 2020 we have provided funding support for nearly 2,400 zero emission buses in England. Across the UK an estimated 3,250 ZEBs have been funded so far.
As part of the Government’s commitment to ZEBs, the Government awarded £270 million through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (Scheme) to 17 local transport authorities which will support up to 1,278 zero emission buses.
Table 1 below presents information on whether zero emission buses have been ordered from funding from the ZEBRA scheme. The numbers in Table 1 are not official statistics: they are based on the latest publicly available information and are therefore subject to change.
Local transport authority | Funding | No. Buses | Status | Bus manufacturer |
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority | £4,200,000 | 30 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Kent County Council | £9,500,000 | 33 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Leicester City Council | £19,000,000 | 96 | 6 buses on the road 90 buses ordered | 6 buses on the road supplied by Pelican & Coach UK and manufactured by Yutong 90 buses ordered from Wrightbus |
Milton Keynes City Council (MKCC) | £16,600,000 | 56 | Funded – on hold | Following the operator's withdrawal of support, the Department is working closely with MKCC to determine next steps. |
Warrington Borough Council | £21,400,000 | 120 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
South Yorkshire Combined Authority | £8,400,000 | 27 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Norfolk County Council | £3,300,000 | 15 | Ordered | Wrightbus |
North Yorkshire County Council | £7,800,000 | 39 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Portsmouth City Council & Hampshire County Council | £6,600,000 | 34 | Ordered | Wrightbus |
Blackpool Council | £19,600,000 | 115 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Nottingham City Council | £15,200,000 | 78 | 12 ordered. 66 funded. | 12 buses supplied by Pelican & Coach UK and manufactured by Yutong. Bus manufacturer for 66 buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Greater Manchester Combined Authority | £35,700,000 | 170 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Hertfordshire County Council | £5,600,000 | 27 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
West Midlands Combined Authority | £30,400,000 | 124 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
City of York Council | £8,400,000 | 44 | Ordered | Wrightbus |
West Yorkshire Combined Authority | £24,600,000 | 111 | 32 buses ordered 79 buses funded. | 32 buses ordered from Wrightbus Bus manufacturer for 79 buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |
Oxfordshire County Council | £32,800,000 | 159 | Funded | Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator. |