Bus Services: Rural Areas

(asked on 28th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to support local authorities to maintain rural bus services.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 4th November 2019

The Government recognises the importance of bus services, which can provide vital connections to people in rural areas. Since January 2014, around £43 million of the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) has been paid directly to local authorities each year, to support socially necessary bus services in their area that are not commercially viable. To improve current bus services, or restore lost services where needed, the Government will pay an extra £30 million to local authorities in 2020/21.

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