Cycling: Southampton

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much central government investment Southampton has received to upgrade its cycling network in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 6th July 2017

Since 2010, local authorities have benefited from funding for sustainable transport initiatives, including cycling and walking, through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund and its successors the Sustainable Travel Transition Year and Access Fund. Details of the areas where DfT funding has been allocated can be found at: http://maps.dft.gov.uk/funding-for-sustainable-travel/index.html

Southampton received £4.947m from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund between 2011 and 2016 for a range of measures to reduce carbon which included walking and cycling initiatives, and will receive a further £2.3m from the Access Fund between 2017 and 2020.

In addition, Southampton Central station benefited from a £150,000 cycle-rail grant in 2012/13, and the Department has funded around £220,000 worth of Bikeability cycle training in Southampton over the last five years.

Southampton has also received funding over the last five years through the Government’s Local Growth Fund, Highways Maintenance Block and the Integrated Transport Block. As this funding is not ring-fenced, however, the Department does not hold data on how much of it may have been spent on cycling networks.

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