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Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority indicative allocations 2024 to 2025

Updated 18 December 2024

Applies to England

On 4 October 2023, the government announced new funding of over £1 billion for better buses in every part of the North and Midlands. 

This will make buses more frequent, more reliable and easier to use – continuing and expanding the improvements started by the £1.2 billion for bus service improvement plans (BSIPs) announced in 2022 and 2023. It is additional to continuing funding for Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) and concessionary fares.

The Network North plan confirmed that “this will be money additional to the local transport, road and rail budgets allocated at the last Spending Review and additional to what those organisations were expecting for the next decade”.

The allocations for the first instalment of this funding for 2024 to 2025 (below) total £150 million. These will be subject to local transport authorities (LTAs) continuing to work with government to agree plans to deliver ambitious improvements through up-to-date bus service improvement plans, as well as continuing to deliver enhanced partnerships with operators in their local areas or pursuing franchising.

Indicative allocations for LTAs to deliver BSIPs – third phase of allocations covering 2024 to 2025

Local transport authority	Revenue funding (2024/25) (£000)
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council	£880
Blackpool Council	£802
Cheshire East Council	£2,268
Cheshire West and Chester Council	£2,031
Cumberland Council[footnote 1]	£1,554
Derby City Council[footnote 2]	£1,486
Derbyshire County Council[footnote 2]	£4,519
East Riding of Yorkshire Council	£1,946
Greater Manchester Combined Authority	£16,309
Herefordshire Council	£1,064
Hull City Council	£1,519
Lancashire County Council	£7,025
Leicester City Council	£2,096
Leicestershire County Council	£4,051
Lincolnshire County Council	£4,370
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority	£8,825
Nottingham City Council[footnote 2]	£1,840
Nottinghamshire County Council[footnote 2]	£4,691
North East Combined Authority and North of Tyne Combined Authority[footnote 3]	£11,202
North East Lincolnshire Council	£893
North Lincolnshire Council	£965
North Northamptonshire Council	£2,045
North Yorkshire Council[footnote 4]	£3,500
Rutland County Council	£233
Shropshire Council	£1,840
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority	£7,820
Staffordshire County Council	£4,982
Stoke-on-Trent City Council	£1,469
Tees Valley Combined Authority	£3,851
Telford and Wrekin Council	£1,055
Warrington Borough Council	£1,200
Warwickshire County Council	£3,394
Westmorland and Furness Council[footnote 1]	£1,289
West Midlands Combined Authority	£16,604
West Northamptonshire Council	£2,421
West Yorkshire Combined Authority	£13,373
Worcestershire County Council	£3,433
City of York Council[footnote 4]	£1,153
Total	£150,000

Funding is allocated to the current local transport authority for each area. Where further mayoral combined authorities are established, funding will instead be paid to the new combined authority.  

Totals may not sum due to rounding.

1. Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness authorities came into existence on 1 April 2023, replacing Cumbria County Council.  ↩ ↩²

2. Following the establishment of the new East Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority.  ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. A single allocation has been made to the Joint Transport Committee in the North East. Following the establishment of the new North East Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority.  ↩

4. Following the establishment of the new York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority.  ↩ ↩²