Bus Services: Staffordshire

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing government support to subsidise bus services in Staffordshire.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 6th June 2019

£250m of Bus Services Operators Grant (BSOG) payments have been made to bus companies and local authorities.

Bus operators in Staffordshire were paid a total of £1,016,186 BSOG in 2018-19 to help meet some of their fuel costs in running local bus services.

Staffordshire County Council received a total of £174,967 in BSOG during 2018-19 to support subsidised local bus services.

BSOG spend figures are published on Gov.uk and can be found via this link https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bus-services-grants-and-funding#bsog-spend

The Government will consider whether to make any changes to BSOG as part of the forthcoming spending review.

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