Bus firmneeds help now, says MP

SCARBOROUGH AND Whitby Conservative MP Robert Goodwill said bus manufacturers in his constituency were in particular need of help.

Alexander Dennis/ Plaxton in Scarborough had already had to make 90 redundancies, he said.

But by accelerating funding for 4,000 zero- emission British- built buses, support could be given.

Mr Goodwill said: “We’re pressing for the Government to release this money early and to get production lines running.

“They are at a point of real crisis. There have already been some redundancies so we do need this money to be allocated. This isn’t new money.”

Some £ 5bn was announced in February to overhaul the UK’s green transport infrastructure in a move the Prime Minister called a “transport revolution”.