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.
£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.