Active Travel: Finance

(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will set out the amounts of dedicated funding she has allocated for active travel in England for (a) 2024/5 and (b) 2025/6, each broken down into (i) capital and revenue funding and (ii) funding for local authorities and for non-governmental organisations.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 26th February 2025

The dedicated funding allocated for active travel in England is (a) £111.2 million in 2024/25 and (b) £246.4 million in 2025/26, broken down in the table below. The remaining funding covers Active Travel England (ATE) operational costs.

Funding type

2024/25

2025/26

Local authority capital

£48.0m

£128.0m

Local authority revenue

£11.7m

£40.5m

NGO capital

£5.0m

£25.0m

NGO revenue

£34.4m

£38.3m

£99.1m

£231.8m

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