Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 109208

Buses: Procurement

Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 27 February 2026

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of buses manufactured outside of the UK were procured using Government funding schemes in each of the last five years.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
My department does not hold that specific information as local authorities procure buses.However, through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas programme, in phase 1, 491 zero emission buses out of 1194 (41.1%) were manufactured outside of the UK. For phas...

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