Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reconsider the rejection of a grant application to deliver buses with lower emissions in Brighton and Hove, given that City Council’s evidence of high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and airborne fine particles in the city centre.

The Government recently announced the allocation of £40m from the Clean Bus Technology Fund and does not plan to reconsider that decision. As the volume of bids received exceeded the available budget we had to prioritise those projects expected to make the greatest contribution to bringing local NO2 concentrations within statutory limits within the shortest possible time.