Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to adopt the target of all buses in the UK being carbon-neutral by the mid-2020s.
The Department supports an ambitious approach to decarbonising the transport sector. Since 2010, over £240m has been provided to clean up the bus fleet, including £48 million in 2018 that funded 263 zero emission buses through the Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme.
In September 2019, we announced a package of commitments in A Better Deal for Bus Users, including a further £220 million to support buses of which £50 million is available for an all-electric bus town or city. Other commitments include a review of bus funding to ensure it supports the environment and improved passenger journeys, and a National Bus Strategy to be published later this year.
The Prime Minster announced £5 billion of new funding for buses and cycling on 10 February 2020, which will provide at least 4,000 new zero emission buses as well as many other measures to be detailed in the National Bus Strategy.
The Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which will be published later this year, will set out a cross-modal approach to decarbonisation.