Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of funding cuts to active travel on the (a) use of active travel and (b) delivery of climate mitigation measures.

This Government has done more than any other in relation to the promotion of walking and cycling. Around £3 billion is projected to be invested in active travel up to 2025, despite the need for efficiency savings across Government. The Department remains committed to the vision that half of all short journeys will be walked or cycled by 2030.

The Transport Decarbonisation Plan, published in 2021, set out the emissions savings that active travel could deliver by 2050, as well as its other benefits including for the environment more widely and for health. The Department will continue to act as needed to decarbonise transport, including publishing progress updates and reviewing the pathway at least every five years.