Buses: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 14th May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the buses funded through Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (a) 1 and (b) 2 schemes are (i) UK and (ii) non-UK-made, broken down by country of origin; and how much Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas funding has been spent on UK-made zero-emission buses as of 14 May 2024.


Answered by
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Guy Opperman
This question was answered on 22nd May 2024

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.

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