A £167m fund will cover the losses of bus companies to keep essential services running for key workers.
The government will cover the losses of bus companies in England over the next three months to ensure that services can still run.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of support measures from local and central government have been dedicated to the UK's bus industry to ensure that companies can survive through the coronavirus crisis and keep a reduced bus network moving.
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