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Buses: Electric Vehicles

Commons · Question 22225 · Tabled 6 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 13 Jan 2025

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Asked by Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to (a) support British companies bidding for electric bus contracts and (b) ensure that (i) BYD, (ii) Yutong and (iii) other foreign companies do not have a disproportionate share of Go

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Answered by Simon Lightwood, 13 Jan 2025

The transition to zero emission buses represents a great opportunity for UK bus manufacturers, both to supply the zero emission buses needed here in the UK and to win export orders abroad as other countries upgrade their bus fleets. On 8 October, the Depa...