Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of his Department's combined resource and capital expenditure is forecast to be spent on active travel projects in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26.

Around £3 billion is projected to be invested in active travel in the 5 years up to 2025, despite the need for efficiency savings across Government due to global financial pressures. This sum includes at least £250 million of ringfenced revenue and capital funding for active travel infrastructure over the two-year period of 2023-24 to 2024-25. The £3 billion also includes funding from wider sources such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements and the Levelling Up Fund.

Planned expenditure on ringfenced active travel funding (£250m across 2023-24 and 2024-25), represents around 0.4% and 0.5% of the Department’s total planned expenditure for the period of 2023-24 and 2024-25.

The budget for the 2025-26 financial year has not yet been agreed and will be set as part of the next Spending Review.