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Green Bus Fund

Volume 504: debated on Thursday 28 January 2010

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much funding from the £30 million of the Green Bus Fund announced in December 2009 has been provided to each recipient bus company; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs (a) created and (b) safeguarded (i) directly and (ii) indirectly through this expenditure. (314078)

The following table shows the Green Bus Fund’s winning bidder organisations, the number of buses each organisation intends to purchase with fund grant and the amount of grant offered to each organisation, which includes both bus operators and local authorities, by the Department for Transport.

Bidding organisations, number of buses to be funded and grant offered under the Green Bus Fund

Bidding organisation

Number of buses to be funded

Grant offered (£)

Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive

66

3,157,740

Transport for London

46

4,968,000

Stagecoach in Manchester

30

2,786,886.90

Stagecoach in Oxfordshire

26

2,351,506.30

Rotala plc

23

2,880,258

First West and North Yorkshire

22

1,705,322.40

Reading Transport Ltd.

20

2,166,500

West Midlands Travel Ltd.

20

1,271,450

First Manchester

14

1,013,109.02

Cumfybus Ltd.

13

1,385,163

Mike de Courcey Travel Ltd.

13

750,000

Hatch Green Coaches

9

882,000

Holsworthy Ltd. (trading as Beacon Coaches)

9

855,720

Nexus (Tyne and Wear PTE)

8

784,800

On a Mission Coaches

6

600,000

Johnsons (Henley) Ltd.

4

282,196

Nottingham City Council

4

392,400

R. Bullock & Co. (Transport) Ltd. (trading as Bullocks Coaches)

4

448,000

Durham County Council

3

294,300

Milton Keynes Council

3

300,000

Blueworks Taxis Ltd.

2

265,740

Ipswich Buses Ltd.

2

222,276

Bath and North East Somerset Council

1

126,990

Thames Travel (Wallingford) Ltd.

1

120,828

Total

349

30,011,185.62

The Department estimates that around 1,000 jobs will be safeguarded in the bus manufacturing industries as a result of the Green Bus Fund investment. The Department does not have an estimate of the number of jobs which will be created by the fund.