Airports: Staff

(asked on 15th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to help ensure that airport staff are able to commute to work via bicycle.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 22nd November 2021

The Department has published various forms of practical advice and guidance for employers on how to enable more of their employees to walk and cycle to work, and in May 2021 I chaired an event with a number of major employers and delivery partners, including Heathrow Airport Limited, to discuss what steps we could all take to make this happen. The Department encourages airport operators to set targets in their Surface Access Strategies for the numbers of passengers, visitors and staff who arrive at their airports by sustainable transport modes including cycling, but ultimately it is a matter for each individual airport operator to decide what facilities to provide to enable its staff to cycle to work and how to encourage this. Heathrow Airport, for example, has been working with Sustrans on an initiative to increase the number of staff who cycle to work. Other incentives include the Cycle to Work scheme, which enables employees to hire a cycle and safety equipment from their employer through a salary sacrifice arrangement, effectively providing access to cycles at a discount.

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