Nov. 22 2023
Source Page: Chancellor backs business and rewards workers to get Wales growingFound: transport in Monmouthshire will deliver significant improvements to the local bus network, walkways, cycleways
Mentions:
1: Harvie, Patrick (Green - Glasgow) the fund is about turning ambition into delivery, I do not just want to see strategies; I want to see cycleways - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) in the Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie and Alyth triangle, where great community groups want to establish cycleways - Speech Link
3: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) Where there is more infrastructure for active travel—such as cycleways safely separated from the road—there - Speech Link
Asked by: Daniel Zeichner (Labour - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the National Cycle Network in providing opportunities for active travel in rural areas; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department for Transport provided funding to Sustrans in 2018 to assess the quality, safety, and accessibility of the National Cycle Network (NCN), including in rural areas. The findings were published in Sustrans’ Paths for Everyone report and were used by Sustrans to prioritise the schemes it put forward for Departmental funding. Over £75 million has been provided by the Department to upgrade the NCN since 2018. A progress update was published by Sustrans in 2021.
Asked by: Greg Knight (Conservative - East Yorkshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ringfencing future funding to local authorities for the (a) repair of potholes and (b) resurfacing of public highways; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The Department for Transport (DfT) allocates capital funding through the section 31 grant process so that local highways authorities can most effectively spend this funding on maintaining and improving their respective networks, based upon their local knowledge, circumstances, and priorities.
Section 31 grant funding is not ringfenced as set out in the Local Government Act 2003; it is up to the highway authority how to spend this funding to fulfil its statutory duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980. Local decision makers are democratically accountable for the decisions they take.
DfT strongly encourages authorities to spend their allocations on highways maintenance activities and advocates a risk-based whole lifecycle asset management approach to local authority highways maintenance programmes. This considers all parts of the highway network, such as gulleys, bridges, cycleways, and lighting columns – and not just the fixing of potholes.
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: land south of A46 Shurdington Road, Leckhampton, Cheltenham (ref: 3309156 - 27 February 2024)Found: application for planning permission for a residential development comprising 350 dwellings, open space, cycleways
Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (CON - North Somerset) It cannot simply be that we give priority to cycleways, which actually increase the danger for some of - Speech Link
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the level of funding required to maintain the National Cycle Network; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government has not made an assessment of the level of funding required to maintain the National Cycle Network (NCN). The NCN is made up of over 12,000 miles of signed on and off-road routes across the UK. Sustrans manage the NCN and rely on a variety of partners to maintain and grow the Network, including landowners, highway authorities, and national and local government.
Oct. 12 2023
Source Page: Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater briefing notes: EIR releaseFound: Value (£,000) Project Type The City of Edinburgh Council Picardy Place Public Space 3,338 Cycleways
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has a target on the proportion of highways with a dedicated cycle lane by the end of this Parliament; and how many highways had a dedicated lane in 2019.
Answered by Jesse Norman
There is no such target nor is this information held by the Department.
Written Evidence Mar. 08 2023
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: sustainability in pro-E-bike Italian pilots,” Transportation Research Procedia, 14, pp. 2362–2371.TfL (2023) Cycleways