Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his 9 May 2020 announcement of new walking and cycling funding in response to covid-19, when he expects payments of that funding to be received by local authorities.

The first £45 million tranche of the Emergency Active Travel Fund will be released to local authorities as soon as possible. Officials are currently working at pace reviewing the applications for funding submitted to Department. Indicative allocations for tranche one have been published on gov.uk and Plymouth was provisionally allocated £249,000. The Department intends to confirm the final amounts awarded to individual local authorities later this month. This will enable work to begin at pace on emergency measures such as closing roads to through traffic, installing segregated cycle lanes and widening pavements. The second tranche of £180m will be released later in the summer.