Mayoral Combined Authority areas have been the biggest winners in FY2025/26 Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) allocations in England, with seven of the 10 highest settlements to go to those bodies.
Monies are divided into capital and revenue streams, with each local transport authority (LTA) also to receive up to £125,000 as a capability and capacity allocation.
The eight large metropolitan areas that are part of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) mechanism have been allocated no capital funding from the FY2025/26 BSIP round, but all bar the Tees Valley Combined Authority will gain eight-figure revenue sums.
Leading those is the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which is allocated £43.8 million of revenue funding less the capability and capacity supplement. The second-biggest overall allocation is £40.6 million to the recently formed East Midlands Combined Authority, which is not part of CRSTS. That is split almost equally over capital and revenue.
The West Midlands Combined Authority – which is within CRSTS – will get £37.2 million as revenue less capability and capacity, placing it third highest among FY2025/26 BSIP overall allocations.
Of non-Combined Authority areas, Lancashire County Council will get the most with a cumulative allocation of £25.3 million. Kent County Council is to see £22 million, and Essex County Council will receive £16.6 million. Rutland County Council gets the least, at £560,000.
In total, £670,116,617 has been awarded to 75 LTAs. The remainder of the £712 million figure for those organisations cited by the government is made up of LTA BSOG allocations.
A combination of population, mileage and deprivation has been used in calculating BSIP capital and revenue funding allocations. Individual LTA combined totals in alphabetical order are:
Bedford Borough Council: £2,298,965
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council: £5,104,774
Blackpool Council: £4,246,881
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council: £5,722,067
Bracknell Forest Council: £1,011,480
Brighton and Hove City Council: £9,106,627
Buckinghamshire Council: £6,291,484
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority: £10,179,106
Central Bedfordshire Council: £2,881,806
Cheshire East Council: £5,096,609
Cheshire West and Chester Council: £5,467,704
Cornwall Council (including the Isles of Scilly): £9,816,373
Cumberland Council: £5,056,175
Devon County Council: £10,472,718
Dorset Council: £3,420,867
East Midlands Combined Authority: £40,580,499
East Riding of Yorkshire Council: £4,418,790
East Sussex County Council: £9,923,792
Essex County Council: £16,616,289
Gloucestershire County Council: £7,573,329
Greater Manchester Combined Authority: £43,789,250
Hampshire County Council: £13,019,411
Herefordshire Council: £3,038,605
Hertfordshire County Council: £11,015,352
Hull City Council: £7,780,679
Isle of Wight Council: £1,802,516
Kent County Council: £22,046,591
Lancashire County Council: £25,274,182
Leicester City Council: £9,353,305
Leicestershire County Council: £7,619,434
Lincolnshire County Council: £11,332,414
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority: £20,850,110
Luton Borough Council: £6,257,910
Medway Council: £3,853,992
Milton Keynes Council: £3,220,153
Norfolk County Council: £14,859,945
North East Combined Authority: £23,762,653
North East Lincolnshire Council: £3,716,242
North Lincolnshire Council: £2,695,967
North Northamptonshire Council: £5,093,161
North Somerset Council: £4,810,390
Oxfordshire County Council: £9,351,781
Plymouth City Council: £4,511,296
Portsmouth City Council: £4,708,148
Reading Borough Council: £2,389,119
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead: £1,268,075
Rutland County Council: £559,973
Shropshire Council: £3,959,343
Slough Borough Council: £1,493,015
Somerset Council: £6,395,824
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority: £16,559,261
Southampton City Council: £4,588,773
Southend-on-Sea City Council: £2,541,467
Staffordshire County Council: £10,455,352
Stoke-on-Trent City Council: £9,868,720
Suffolk County Council: £8,159,881
Surrey County Council: £10,949,395
Swindon Borough Council: £2,718,695
Tees Valley Combined Authority: £7,278,668
Telford and Wrekin Council: £3,396,701
Thurrock Council: £1,909,202
Torbay Council: £2,102,918
Warrington Borough Council: £3,783,594
Warwickshire County Council: £8,093,238
West Berkshire Council: £1,497,759
West Midlands Combined Authority: £37,191,610
West Northamptonshire Council: £5,319,399
West of England Combined Authority: £13,716,185
West Sussex County Council: £9,252,990
West Yorkshire Combined Authority: £34,015,887
Westmorland and Furness Council: £4,041,051
Wiltshire Council: £5,890,519
Wokingham Borough Council: £1,297,917
Worcestershire County Council: £8,858,887
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority: £11,513,377.
Capital, capacity and capability, and revenue breakdowns can be found here.
