Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent comparative assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of the use of private transport prior to the start of the covid-19 outbreak and during the covid-19 outbreak; what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for those trends; and whether he plans to take steps to encourage people to reduce their use of private transport.

To monitor the use of the transport system during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Department for Transport provides statistics on transport use by mode, published every Wednesday. Data on usage of the different transport modes is available on GOV.UK. We’re creating a Transport Decarbonisation Plan for publication later this year setting out a pathway to decarbonisation which will consider measures to accelerate modal shift to public and active transport. We have already invested £2 billion to rejuvenate cycling and walking across the UK – the largest investment ever made in this area.