Bus Services: West Midlands
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of bus service provision per capita in (a) Solihull Metropolitan Borough, (b) Warwickshire, (c) Worcestershire and (d) Birmingham City Council areas; and how that compares to the national average.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department for Transport publishes statistics on vehicle distance travelled on local bus services, which can be used as a proxy for bus service provision. These figures have been combined with Office for National Statistics population estimates to assess trends in provision per capita. The year ending March 2024 figures have been calculated using mid-year 2023 population estimates, as these are the latest available figures.
Data for Solihull and Birmingham is not available, so figures for West Midlands Combined Authority have been provided instead.
Table: Vehicle distance travelled (kilometres) per capita on local bus services from year ending March 2015.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Warwickshire | 25.6 | 22.1 | 25.6 | 24.5 | 24.1 | 24.1 | 16.8 | 19.9 | 20.8 | 18.1 |
Worcestershire | 19.5 | 17.8 | 19.1 | 16.6 | 17.7 | 17.1 | 13.4 | 13.7 | 8.9 | 9.0 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 42.9 | 42.0 | 41.2 | 39.8 | 39.6 | 39.0 | 34.6 | 35.3 | 32.0 | 33.5 |
England outside London | 34.0 | 32.8 | 32.1 | 30.5 | 29.9 | 28.9 | 23.2 | 25.8 | 23.9 | 24.0 |
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