Cycling: Training
(asked on 18th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department provided for Bikeability in each year from 2007-08 to 2015-16 expressed in 2015-16 prices; and how much his Department plans to provide for that scheme in each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21 expressed in 2015-16 prices.
The amount of funding provided by the Department for Transport to support the delivery of Bikeability cycle training in each financial year from 2007/08 to 2015/16 is set-out in the table below:
Financial Year | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
£m | 1.11 | 3.92 | 5.94 | 9.50 | 11.48 | 10.97 | 11.71 | 12.45 | 11.19 |
Funding expressed in 2015/16 prices £m | 1.30 | 4.49 | 6.67 | 10.35 | 12.25 | 11.51 | 12.05 | 12.60 | 11.19 |
Footnotes: Figures provided in the table cover Bikeability training grant costs only. Funding expressed in 2015/16 prices was calculated using parameters in the Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG) data book.
Between 2010/11 and 2015/16 this government provided an average of £11.66m per year in 2015/16 prices, compared to an average of £4.15m per year in the three years previously under Labour.
The projected budget for the delivery of Bikeability in each financial year from 2016/17 to 2019/20 is set-out in the table below:
Financial Year | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
£m | 11.40 | 11.59 | 11.79 | 11.99 |
Funding expressed in 2015/16 prices £m | 11.22 | 11.21 | 11.19 | 11.15 |
Footnotes: Figures provided in the table cover Bikeability training grant costs only. Funding expressed in 2015/16 prices was calculated using parameters in the Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG) data book.
Government funding for Bikeability in 2020/21 will be decided at a future Spending Review.