Cycling and Walking: North West

(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how much money, and (2) what proportion of COVID-19 related funding for local transport schemes to promote cycling and walking, has been allocated to (a) the North West, and (b) Lancashire, Blackburn and Blackpool; and for which schemes.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020

On the 9 May the Government announced a £2 billion package of funding for cycling and walking over the next five years. This includes £225 million in the current financial year for the provision of pop-up bike lanes with protected space for cycling, wider pavements, safer junctions and cycle and bus-only corridors.

The first tranche of this funding will be released as soon as possible provided local authorities submit suitably ambitious plans to the Department, and the second tranche will be released later in the summer.

The total indicative allocation for the North West is £33,543,000. Lancashire has been indicatively allocated £700,000 for tranche one and £2,801,000 for tranche two; Blackburn has been indicatively allocated £77,000 for tranche one and £308,000 for tranche two and Blackpool has been indicatively allocated £104,000 for tranche one and £416,000 for tranche two.

Final allocations will depend on the quality of the plans local authorities submit to the Department.

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