Better Transport

Buses are vital for a healthy economy:

• They provide low-cost, low-carbon transport links to work, education, health, leisure and shopping
• They are the safest, greenest and most used form of public transport, with 5 billion passenger journeys a year
• They are vital for the 25% of Britons who don't have a car, and for many young, elderly and disabled travellers

The Government is reviewing the future of the only direct national funding for bus services – the Bus Service Operators Grant – and may scrap it completely. We say this would be a disaster.

The Bus Service Operators Grant is a rebate to bus operators on the fuel duty they pay. Scrapping it would lead to:

• Bus service cuts
• Fare increases
• Job losses in the bus industry and related industries
• Unemployment for people who can no longer access work
• More car journeys, congestion and CO2 emissions

We're fighting this terrible threat to buses.

Ask your MP to protect vital bus services 

Find out more in our briefing about the threat (PDF, 105K)

Read our letter to the Secretary of State for Transport about the threat (PDF, 56K)

Read our letter to MPs about the threat (PDF, 42K)

Read our press release about the threat