Improvements to buses

Funding opportunities and reform plans to improve bus services.

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Services

• Apply for supported bus services funding

  Application guidance and funding allocations for supported bus services funding in 2020 to 2021.

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Guidance and regulation

• Bus service improvement plan
  • Guidance
  • 16 January 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Apply for zero emission bus funding (ZEBRA 2)
  • Guidance
  • 20 November 2023
  • Department for Transport
• Setting up a bus franchising scheme
  • Guidance
  • 17 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Bus Services Act 2017: Enhanced Partnership creation
  • Guidance
  • 28 January 2022
  • Department for Transport
• TransXChange: downloads and schema
  • Guidance
  • 12 March 2014
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Local Transport Minister joins bus bosses to supercharge green vehicles and boost business
  • 13 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Half a billion-pound investment in electric buses secured ahead of International Investment Summit
  • 8 October 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• £80 million funding delivered to improve and protect bus services
  • 28 September 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• New onboard announcements to make Britain’s buses accessible for everyone
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• £25 million to boost rollout of British-made green buses around the country
  • 2 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Bus service improvement plan: phase 1 intervention evaluation
  • 26 September 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Bus Services Act 2017: accessible information
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 September 2018
• Bus Services Act 2017: bus open data
  • 27 March 2019
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 September 2018
• Bus back better
  • 15 March 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• Future of Transport regulatory review: call for evidence on micromobility vehicles, flexible bus services and Mobility-as-a-Service
  • 24 November 2020
  • Department for Transport and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Call for evidence outcome
• A better deal for bus users
  • 6 February 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority allocations
  • 18 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street