Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 109393

Buses: Procurement

Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 27 February 2026

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle 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 Lightwood
My 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.