Surrey is to receive £12m from the Department for Transport to spend on improving the county's bus services. The money is likely to be used to generate more frequent buses on popular routes, protect services in rural areas and improve punctuality, Surrey County Council said.

More than £124m worth of government funding will be used to ‘improve and protect’ crucial bus services across the South East – including Sussex and Surrey.

Bus services across Lancashire are set for further improvements after the county was awarded £27 million in funding.

A Surrey village on the border with London "urgently" needs a bus service, says a local councillor, but authorities on either side of the boundary are refusing to fund it. Residents of Netherne-on-the-Hill have to walk about half a mile (0.8km) to the village of Hooley to catch a bus to Coulsdon Town railway station.

Passengers are set to benefit from £2.8 million of new government funding announced today to be spent improving buses across Central Bedfordshire over the next 12 months.

The significant investment, announced today, is part of more than £1 billion funding to support buses across the UK.

Northamptonshire is set to receive a total of £10.6m in government funding to improve its bus services. The funding is part of a wider initiative focused on ensuring better services across England, with £88m committed to supporting transport in the East Midlands.

Now, Lancashire County Council has been allocated a further £25.3m for 2025/26, split almost equally between cash that can be used on day-to-day operations and that which is rese