Buses: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish their national bus strategy; and whether, and if so when, they plan to provide funding for the manufacture and purchase of zero emission buses.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 17th March 2021

The National Bus Strategy for England was published on Monday 15 March.

As set out in Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the Spending Review 2020 Government will invest £120 million in 2021-22 to start the delivery of the 4,000 zero emission buses announced by the Prime Minister last year.

Together with existing funding for the All-Electric Bus Town or City Government funding could support the purchase of 800 zero emission buses and the infrastructure needed to support them.

Further details on how the £120 million funding will be distributed will be announced in the spring.

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