Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 17 September 2018 (HL10203), how much capital grant was paid to the bus industry to develop low emission vehicles in 2015/16 and 2016/17; and what is their estimate of the capital grant for each of the next two financial years.

In the 2015/16 financial year there was no capital grant paid to the bus industry for low emission buses. For 2016/17 bus operators and local authorities received £11.82 million to support the purchase of low emission buses and supporting infrastructure, and for 2017/18 they received £13.95 million. They will receive £4.63 million in 2018/19

From 2019 to 2021 they will receive a further £48 million to support the purchase of ultra-low emission buses and supporting infrastructure.

Local authorities also received £7 million in 2015 for retrofitting existing bus fleets to a Euro VI standard, with an additional £40 million awarded in February 2018.