Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Ruth Cadbury Excerpts
Thursday 3rd February 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Courts Portrait Robert Courts
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I gladly join my hon. Friend in celebrating the growing success of Gravitilab. I congratulate him on being an excellent advocate for it, Broadland and the space industry as a whole. The Government have put in place the most modern space flight legislation in the world. We will continue to review it to ensure that it meets the needs of the UK’s entire space industry.

Ruth Cadbury Portrait Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
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18. What plans he has to publish a second cycling and walking investment strategy.

Trudy Harrison Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Trudy Harrison)
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The Government plan to publish the second cycling and walking investment strategy in the spring.

Ruth Cadbury Portrait Ruth Cadbury
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I thank the Minister for the answer. I am concerned that the Treasury has clearly decided that £2 billion is all the ringfenced funding that will be allocated for cycling and walking, but the Department for Transport commissioned research several years ago that apparently says this £2 billion is only a quarter to a third of what is needed to meet the stated aims of the Government to increase cycling and walking by 2025. Can I ask if she will now publish this research, as a former Transport Minister, the hon. Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris), repeatedly promised two years ago?