Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Government has spent on sustainable transport in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last three years.

The Department has committed £51.952m to the Yorkshire and the Humber area as part of a range of Local Sustainable Transport Fund projects, which will be ongoing until March 2015. To date, £47.812m of this funding has been paid out. This includes £1.653m for Harrogate and Knaresborough, of which £0.968m has been paid out. A further £19.684m in funding has also been provided to Yorkshire and the Humber through the Linking Communities, Cycle Safety and Cycling Ambition grant programmes. This means that over the past three financial years, the Department has paid £67.496m to the Yorkshire and Humber area (including Harrogate and Knaresborough), and has committed £71.636m up until March 2015.

The breakdown of these overall figures are as follows in the attached table, and include any funding claimed thus far in Quarters 1 and 2 of this financial year, where this breakdown is known.

In addition, the Integrated Transport Block can be used for small transport improvement projects, including cycle routes. The allocations for the past three financial years are below. The current financial year is also provided for information.

The background notes provide a summary for the funding programmes mentioned above. More detailed information on the individual schemes can be found on www.GOV.UK