Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 35043

Bus Services: Staff

Tabled: 3 March 2025

Answered: 6 March 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will bring forward a bus workforce strategy.

Answer

Simon Lightwood

The government has no current plans to develop a bus workforce strategy. We will, however, continue to work with the bus and coach sectors to support them in being able to meet both their current and future labour requirements.