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 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.