VoteClimate: Bus Services - 2nd March 2023

Bus Services - 2nd March 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Bus Services.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-03-02/debates/42625714-4839-4E56-B17E-BBF6FE9AE46C/BusServices

Simon Lightwood (Labour)

In 2020, the Government promised to deliver 4,000 zero-emission buses in this Parliament, but just 341 have been ordered, and only six are on our roads. At this rate, it will take 23 years to meet that target, and we will not get diesel buses off our roads completely until the end of the century. With manufacturers ready to deliver a brighter, greener future for Britain’s buses, when will the Minister get out of first gear and match their ambition?

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Richard Holden (Conservative)

The hon. Member has clearly missed our announcement this morning of extra buses across the country—an extra £25 million going into York, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and delivering 3,452 zero-emission buses, to date, on that 4,000 target, so we will definitely get there before the end of the Parliament.

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