Transport Across the North

Written Question

Buses: Carbon Emissions

Wednesday 22nd May 2024

Asked by: Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party - North Antrim)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage local authorities to buy new zero-emission buses through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Area schemes.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

More than 5,200 buses have been funded across the UK since February 2020, with UK bus manufacturers supporting many of these. UK manufacturers have grown substantially in recent years as a result of their success in securing orders supported by £460 million of dedicated zero emission bus funding.

A breakdown of how much grant funding has been spent on UK-made ZEBs is unavailable. Of the approximately 1,300 ZEBs funded through the ZEBRA 1 programme, over 800 of these buses will be manufactured by UK bus manufacturers Wrightbus and Alexander Dennis. We look forward to UK manufacturers securing more orders through the recently announced ZEBRA 2 funding.

The following tables present information on the number of ZEBs funded and ordered through the ZEBRA programmes and the projects’ bus manufacturer by local transport authority. ZEBs produced and sold in the UK are supported by a global supply chain, therefore the below table outlines bus manufacturer’s location rather than country of origin. The numbers in this table are not official statistics: they are based on the latest information available and are therefore indicative and subject to change.

ZEBRA 1
Local Transport Authority	Number of buses funded	Number of buses ordered	Bus manufacturer & Location
Blackpool Council	90	0	Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority	30	30	Volvo (Sweden)
City of York Council	53	53	Wrightbus (UK)
Greater Manchester Combined Authority	170	170	Volvo (Sweden)
Hertfordshire County Council	27	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Kent County Council	33	33	5 – Volvo (Sweden)   28 – Irizar (Spain)
Leicester City Council	116	116	110 – Wrightbus (UK)    6 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)
Norfolk County Council	70	70	Wrightbus (UK)
North Yorkshire County Council	39	39	20 – EvoBus/Mercedes (Germany) 19 – Alexander Dennis Ltd  (UK)
Nottingham City Council	62	48	48 - Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)   Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Oxfordshire County Council	159	159	104 - Wrightbus (UK) 55 – Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)
Portsmouth City Council & Hampshire County Council	62	62	Wrightbus (UK)
South Yorkshire Combined Authority	27	27	4 – Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)    23 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)
Warrington Borough Council	105	105	Volvo (Sweden)
West Midlands Combined Authority	124	0	Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority	146	146	131 – Wrightbus (UK) 15 – Mercedes (Germany)
	1,308	1,053

ZEBRA 2
Local Transport Authority	Number of buses funded	Number of buses ordered	Bus manufacturer & Location
Brighton and Hove City Council	16	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Cornwall Council	8	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Derbyshire County Council	57	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Devon County Council	41	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Essex County Council	55	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Gloucestershire County Council	58	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Hull City and East Riding of Yorkshire Council	40	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Isle of Wight Council	22	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Leicestershire County Council	46	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority	58	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
North Somerset Council	24	24	Bus manufacturer TBC
Nottinghamshire County Council	23	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Plymouth City Council	50	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Reading Borough Council	24	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Somerset Council	25	25	Bus manufacturer TBC
Staffordshire County Council	17	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Surrey County Council	19	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Tees Valley Combined Authority	62	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Torbay Council	49	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Transport North East	43	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Warwickshire County Council	27	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
West Northamptonshire Council	51	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
West of England Mayoral Combined Authority	74	74	Bus manufacturer TBC
West Sussex County Council	43	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.
Wiltshire Council	23	0	Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.