Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rail operators increasing provision to allow travellers to take bicycles on trains.

In the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail and the Gear Change Cycling and Walking Strategy the government committed to increasing space for cycles on existing trains wherever practically possible and to include more cycle spaces on all future train fleets. We will assess the merits of different levels of provision before we require operators to increase provision for the carriage of cycles on trains.