Correspondence May. 16 2024
Committee: Local Government, Housing and Planning CommitteeFound: concerned that any delays in implementing Policy 2 will lead to avoidable risks of building high carbon infrastructure
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the the Institution of Civil Engineers and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure report entitled What are the public behavioural changes required to meet net zero?, published in February 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his polices of the finding that funding safe active travel infrastructure may support people looking to change their behaviour to reduce carbon emissions; and what steps his Department is taking to incentivise transport choices that reduce carbon emissions.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This Government’s approach to decarbonisation is not to stop people doing things, but to enable people to do the same things differently and more sustainably. The Government set out its plans for decarbonising transport in its 2021 Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) and has continued to build on these plans.
The Government agrees that funding safe active travel infrastructure can enable more people to choose walking, cycling and wheeling for short journeys, and that this in turn can reduce carbon emissions. The TDP includes an assessment of the carbon savings that are projected to be delivered by the Government’s current and projected future support for active travel. This support includes the investment of around £3 billion over the current Parliament, much of which will directly support the roll-out of safe and attractive active travel infrastructure.
May. 15 2024
Source Page: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cyclingFound: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling
May. 15 2024
Source Page: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cyclingFound: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: WQI0015 - Water quality and water infrastructure: follow-up Windrush Against Sewage Pollution Written
Found: (2) Before section 28 (dangerous cycling) insert— “27A Causing death by dangerous cycling
May. 14 2024
Source Page: New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across EnglandFound: Strategy (16); Clean Air Strategy (17); Sporting Future (18); Prevention is Better than Cure (19); Cycling
May. 14 2024
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 13 July 2023Found: in stewarding our natural resources, to local authorities making place-based decisions around green infrastructure
Mentions:
1: None Even the term “infrastructure first” emphasises the need for infrastructure to be in there early so that - Speech Link
2: None funding for walking, wheeling, cycling and place making. - Speech Link
3: None Of course, that needs to be supported through walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport routes, - Speech Link
4: None We microsite our infrastructure to avoid all the deep peat. - Speech Link
5: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) Here in Edinburgh, the west Edinburgh green network has specifically looked to embed walking and cycling - Speech Link
Found: To move the following Clause— “Causing serious disruption to road transport infrastructure After