Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to Bikeability cycle training for children.

The Department for Transport announced in February an additional £30 million to support the delivery of Bikeability cycle training to children across England in 2025/26.

This includes funding to ensure sessions are accessible to people with additional needs, such as households without cycles or basic cycle training to prepare children for Bikeability training. In 2024/25 the Bikeability programme provided access to over 4,700 new cycles, supporting the delivery of 500,000 training places, which equated to almost 3 million hours of cycling for children.

In 2024/25, approximately 10% of children trained were children with special educational needs and disabilities, which has increased from 8% in 2023/24.