Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to increase the capacity of bike storage facilities on trains in the context of increased uptake of cycling during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Government has set out in the Prime Minister’s Cycling and Walking Plan that it believes that existing trains should include more spaces for cycles where practically possible, and that all future rolling stock should include more bike spaces relevant to the markets served. Train operators are best placed to determine the configuration of the interior layouts of trains to accommodate more cycles on routes where this is necessary.