Nottinghamshire County Council can procure tendered local bus services where commercial routes are not viable. As funding is provided through the main Local Government Formula Grant, an unhypothecated block grant allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government, it is not possible to say how much is allocated to Nottinghamshire County Council for the provision of bus services.

The Department for Transport allocated Nottinghamshire County Council £926,959 in 2009-10 and £950,727 in 2010-11 in Rural Bus Subsidy Grant (RBSG) for the provision of additional local bus services to rural communities. In 2010/11 and 2011/12, the Department made two payments of £158,455 with the aim of kick-starting and supporting community transport as part of the Supporting Community Transport Fund.

Bus operators running local registered bus services in the Nottinghamshire County Council area are able to claim Bus Service Operators Grant. Although data relating to the amount claimed by operators is not

available broken down by local authority area, the following links provide information on payments made to individual operators for claims covering the periods up to (i) 31 March 2010 and (ii) 31 March 2011.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110504135837/http:/www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/buses/busgrants/bsog/661224

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/3258/bsog-grants-paid-2011.pdf