Asked by: Alison Hume (Labour - Scarborough and Whitby)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing targeted financial support to people with mobility impairments that are purchasing adapted bicycles.
Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Government has announced an additional £100 million investment in cycling and walking infrastructure for the financial year 2025/26. As the Department develops its future plans for active travel, it will consider, alongside Active Travel England, options for enabling more disabled people to access adapted cycles. In the meantime, the Cycle to Work scheme already enables many people to access adapted cycles at a reduced cost.
Asked by: Alison Hume (Labour - Scarborough and Whitby)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support self-employed people to buy a bicycle.
Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department and Active Travel England will consider options for making cycles more accessible to all, including self-employed people, as it develops its future plans for active travel.