Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 109393
Buses: Procurement
Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 27 February 2026
Question
Joe Robertson
Conservative — Isle of Wight East
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the average social value weighting applied by contracting authorities in procurements of new buses supported by Government funding schemes in each of the last five years
Answer
Simon LightwoodMy department devolves the procurement activities to the contracting authority for new buses and therefore does not hold information on the average social value weighting which may have been applied.