Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 4.30 of his Department's Bus reform workshops: background document, published in September 2015, if he plans to devolve the bus service operators grant to those local authorities granted franchising powers in the Bus Services Bill.

Where an authority implements franchising, Government plans to devolve the Bus Service Operators Grant that would have been paid to commercial bus operators in the area to the local authority.