Bus Services: West Yorkshire

(asked on 21st September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the use of environmentally sustainable buses in West Yorkshire.


Answered by
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Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 28th September 2020

Through the 2018-2021 Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme (ULEBS), West Yorkshire Combined Authority and First West Yorkshire have been allocated £617,000 for 5 electric buses and charging infrastructure and £1,770,472.50 for 9 electric buses and charging infrastructure respectively, totalling £2,387,472.50. This is in addition to the 2016-2019 Low Emission Bus Scheme (LEBS) funding which has supported the purchase of 8 Low-Emission, Hybrid Buses with £234,000 in total provided to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

The Government is also investing at least 4,000 Zero-Emission Buses (ZEBs) through the £5 billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links for regions outside London.

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