“[I am] absolutely delighted. I think the last bus funding improvement plan that we got was just under £500,000 as a one-year allocation, so to get just under £2m as a one-year allocation will be transformational,” he said.
“We already had big plans for the small amount of funding we had previously, so I am sure we will have even more ambitious plans for this £2.5m.”
The money is part of a total of £955m being allocated in England towards bus services outside London.
Ms Haigh said: “For far too long, the East of England has been suffering from unreliable services with buses hugely delayed, or not even turning up at all.”