Active Travel: Finance

(asked on 13th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2025 to Question 32531 on Active Travel: Finance, how much funding her Department allocated for active travel by (a) (i) capital and (ii) revenue funding and (b) funding for local authorities, (c) funding for non-governmental organisations and (d) funding for Active Travel England's operational costs in each financial year between 2020-21 and 2023-24.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th March 2025

The below table sets out capital and revenue funding allocations to (a) local authorities (LA) and (b) non-government organisations (NGO), alongside funding for Active Travel England’s (ATE) operating costs from financial year 20/21 to 23/24. Final payments may differ from funding allocations.

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

LA capital

173.9

161.0

200.0

45.8

LA revenue

71.1

36.9

45.7

57.2

NGO capital

18.0

48.0

7.7

NGO revenue

43.6

32.0

26.5

28.6

ATE operating costs

4.0

10.2

Total

306.6

277.9

276.2

149.5

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