Department for Transport: Annual Reports

(asked on 10th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 21 of her Department's report entitled Department for Transport annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025, published on 22 July 2025, if she will provide a breakdown of the £644 million expenditure on Sustainable travel, including (a) the projects and programmes funded and (b) the amount allocated to each.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th April 2026

Page 21 of the Annual Report & Accounts is the ‘Financial Overview’ report, which presents total departmental spending by Estimate Line. ‘Sustainable Travel’ is an Estimate Line descriptor shown in the Statement of Parliamentary Supply within the 2024-25 Annual Report & Accounts. This Estimate Line records spending incurred by the Core department and Active Travel England. A breakdown of the spending incurred in 2024-25 is provided in the table below.

Capital DEL

Resource DEL

Business area

Amount £m

Amount £m

Active Travel England

54

82

Decarbonisation, Technology and Strategy Group

398

37

Rail Strategy and Services Group

19

15

Road Transport Group

17

22

Sub-total

488

156

Overall total

644

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