Cycling and Walking

(asked on 10th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve infrastructure for cycling and walking.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 18th September 2018

The Government’s statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, published in April 2017, set out £1.2 billion of funding available to be invested in measures to increase cycling and walking, including improving infrastructure in England, over the period to 2021.

Since the publication of the Strategy, the Department has identified additional infrastructure funding for cycling and walking schemes, including around £77 million of support for schemes via the National Productivity Investment Fund and over £7 million to support cycle safety improvements.

The Government has also announced a new £1.7 billion Transforming Cities Fund which will support a number of cities seeking improve local connectivity, including by boosting cycling and walking. The Department also has a major programme of technical support under way to help 44 local authorities in England develop Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans in order to identify future cycling and walking infrastructure schemes.

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