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Buses: Procurement

Asked by Jerome MayhewConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 27 February 2026UIN 109208

The question

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.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

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 phase 2 of the programme, 567 zero emission buses out of 1269 (44.7%) were manufactured outside of the UK.

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