Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how he plans to allocate the £200 million of increased funding to transform bus services announced in the Spending Round 2019.

On 30 September this year, the Government announced a package to transform bus services. This package, worth £220 million in the first year, includes:

• Investing up to £50 million to deliver Britain’s first all-electric bus town or city;

• Introducing the first ‘Superbus’ network approach to deliver low fare high frequency services in Cornwall;

• £30 million extra bus funding to be paid directly to local authorities to enable them to improve current bus services or to restore lost services;

• Investing over £20 million in bus priority measures in the West Midlands; and

• £20 million to support demand responsive services in rural and suburban areas.

Further details of the package can be found online with the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-better-deal-for-bus-users/a-better-deal-for-bus-users