Buses: Procurement
Commons · Question 109208 · Tabled 28 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 27 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Jerome Mayhew
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
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 27 Feb 2026
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...