Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority indicative allocations 2024 to 2025
Updated 23 October 2023
Applies to England
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On 4 October 2023, the government announced new funding of over £1 billion for better buses in every part of the North and Midlands.
This will make buses more frequent, more reliable and easier to use – continuing and expanding the improvements started by the £1.2 billion for bus service improvement plans (BSIPs) announced in 2022 and 2023. It is additional to continuing funding for Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) and concessionary fares.
The Network North plan confirmed that “this will be money additional to the local transport, road and rail budgets allocated at the last Spending Review and additional to what those organisations were expecting for the next decade”.
The allocations for the first instalment of this funding for 2024 to 2025 (below) total £150 million. These will be subject to local transport authorities (LTAs) continuing to work with government to agree plans to deliver ambitious improvements through up-to-date bus service improvement plans, as well as continuing to deliver enhanced partnerships with operators in their local areas or pursuing franchising.
Indicative allocations for LTAs to deliver BSIPs – third phase of allocations covering 2024 to 2025
| Local transport authority | Revenue funding (2024/25) (£000) |
|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | £880 |
| Blackpool Council | £802 |
| Cheshire East Council | £2,268 |
| Cheshire West and Chester Council | £2,031 |
| Cumberland Council[footnote 1] | £1,554 |
| Derby City Council[footnote 2] | £1,486 |
| Derbyshire County Council[footnote 2] | £4,519 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire Council | £1,946 |
| Greater Manchester Combined Authority | £16,309 |
| Herefordshire Council | £1,064 |
| Hull City Council | £1,519 |
| Lancashire County Council | £7,025 |
| Leicester City Council | £2,096 |
| Leicestershire County Council | £4,051 |
| Lincolnshire County Council | £4,370 |
| Liverpool City Region Combined Authority | £8,825 |
| Nottingham City Council[footnote 2] | £1,840 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council[footnote 2] | £4,691 |
| North East Combined Authority and North of Tyne Combined Authority[footnote 3] | £11,202 |
| North East Lincolnshire Council | £893 |
| North Lincolnshire Council | £965 |
| North Northamptonshire Council | £2,045 |
| North Yorkshire Council[footnote 4] | £3,500 |
| Rutland County Council | £233 |
| Shropshire Council | £1,840 |
| South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority | £7,820 |
| Staffordshire County Council | £4,982 |
| Stoke-on-Trent City Council | £1,469 |
| Tees Valley Combined Authority | £3,851 |
| Telford and Wrekin Council | £1,055 |
| Warrington Borough Council | £1,200 |
| Warwickshire County Council | £3,394 |
| Westmorland and Furness Council[footnote 1] | £1,289 |
| West Midlands Combined Authority | £16,604 |
| West Northamptonshire Council | £2,421 |
| West Yorkshire Combined Authority | £13,373 |
| Worcestershire County Council | £3,433 |
| City of York Council[footnote 4] | £1,153 |
| Total | £150,000 |
Funding is allocated to the current local transport authority for each area. Where further mayoral combined authorities are established, funding will instead be paid to the new combined authority.
Totals may not sum due to rounding.
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Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness authorities came into existence on 1 April 2023, replacing Cumbria County Council. ↩ ↩2
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Following the establishment of the new East Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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A single allocation has been made to the Joint Transport Committee in the North East. Following the establishment of the new North East Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority. ↩
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Following the establishment of the new York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, future funding will be allocated to the combined authority. ↩ ↩2