Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the effect of the Bus Services Act 2017 in improving bus services.

The National Bus Strategy, published in March last year, set out the Government’s vision for delivering better bus services for passengers across England.

Since then, all local authorities in England have published a Bus Service Improvement Plan, setting out how they will improve bus services in their areas. Improvements will be delivered using the powers in the Bus Services Act 2017 – either via enhanced partnerships or bus franchising – using over a billion pounds of new Government funding.

The Government has committed £3 billion of bus investment across this Parliament, including £1.2 billion of new dedicated funding for bus transformation.