Buses: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 20th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Spending Review 2020, published on 25 November 2020, how they plan to fund the “800 cleaner, greener, quieter zero emission buses" in financial year 2021/22; and when they plan to begin the procurement of such buses.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 25th January 2021

As set out in the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the Spending Review 2020 the Government will invest £120 million in 2021-22 to start the delivery of the 4,000 zero emission buses announced by the Prime Minister last year.

Together with existing funding for the All Electric Bus Town or City, Government funding could support the purchase of 800 zero emission buses and the infrastructure needed to support them.

The Department is considering all funding mechanisms in delivering the first of the 4,000 zero emission buses and the infrastructure needed to support them.

Further details on how funding will be distributed will be announced in the spring.

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