SECTION A: BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS
Q1. What is your local transport authority name?
Transport for Greater Manchester
Q2. Name of the reporting officer:
Martin Shier
Q3. Contact phone number of the reporting officer:
07810 813811
Q4. Email address of the reporting officer:
SECTION B: TENDERED BUS NETWORK
Q5. What have you used the BSOG funds for? Please exclude any funding via Bus Recovery Grant and any other funding provided through the local authority.
If there has been no spend on a particular element, please enter 0.
A. Maintaining current tendered services: £2953651
B. Increasing level of tendered services: £0
C. Investing in alternative services (e.g. community transport, taxi buses): £0
D. Investing in supporting bus infrastructure provision: £0
E. Other - Bus: £0
F. Non Bus: £0
Total: £2953651
Q6. If you provided an amount for A, B or C in Q5, did you place specific requirements on operators as a condition of payment (for example, setting a minimum standard of emissions requirement which needed to be met)?
Yes
If yes, please provide details
Contracted and franchised services in TfGM require a minimum standard of Euro VI or better in terms of emission standards.
Q7. If you provided an amount for C, D or E in Q5, please specify the type of services/infrastructure you have invested in:
No Response
SECTION B: TENDERED BUS NETWORK
Q8. Please provide details of which parts of your existing bus service you would not be able to deliver without the financial assistance from BSOG.
If you did not spend any of your BSOG on maintaining current tendered services, please enter N/A.
Whilst the reasons for tendered or specific franchised services are varied, in general terms TfGM uses tendered BSOG to assist in securing services which are deemed not to be commercial by operators in the areas currently under transition to franchise services. Typically these maybe evening and Sunday services or services to more rural areas of GM or extensions to the existing network to serve such areas. Some tendered services are also provided expressly to serve areas of specific social, employment or educational need.
Q9. If you have used BSOG to increase the level of tendered services, please indicate how this has been spent.
No Response
Q10. Please provide an estimate of the number of tendered routes supported by BSOG in your LA.
c240. An approximate figure is provided due to the transition to franchises in the current period.
SECTION B: TENDERED BUS NETWORK
Q11. In addition to BSOG did your transport authority spend other financial resources on supporting bus services?
Yes
If yes, please state the amount spent
£41.9m
Q12. If you answered yes to question 11, please explain how money over and above BSOG/Bus Recovery Grant was spent.
If there has been no spend on a particular element, please enter 0.
A. Maintaining current tendered services: £41900000
B. Increasing level of tendered services: £0
C. Investing in alternative services (e.g. community transport, taxi buses): £0
D. Community transport run under a section 19 permit: £0
E. Network redesign/reconfiguration: £0
F. Bus stops/shelters: £0
G. Bus lanes: £0
H. Real time journey information: £0
I. Other: £0
Total: £41900000
Q13. Did you spend all of your allocated BSOG 2023/24 grant?
Yes