Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National Cycle Network in providing access to nature.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The National Cycle Network spans 12,000 miles of signed routes for walking, wheeling and cycling including over 5,000 miles of traffic-free paths. Since 2018, the Government has provided over £80m to Sustrans to upgrade the National Cycle Network. Upgrades include moving routes from busy roads, improved surfacing and better accessibility, helping to increase access to green spaces for all and benefiting both physical and mental health.
May. 16 2024
Source Page: AAIB investigation to ATR 72-202, G-NPTFFound: The co-pilot’s EADI and EHSI continued to flash, and his ASI was cycling from maximum to minimum speed
May. 16 2024
Source Page: I. Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers. 44p. II. Review of the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education statutory guidance. Government consultation. 27p. III. Letter dated 16/05/2024 from Gillian Keegan MP to the Deposited papers clerk regarding the above documents for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: building regular exercise into daily and weekly routines and how to achieve this; for example, walking or cycling
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) The funds raised from those bonds have been invested in things such as cycling and walking, electric - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) A Sustrans report into the cycling network identified 16,000 barriers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Back-Bench and Government proposals on issues of wide public concern, such as cuckooing, dangerous cycling - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) Obviously, cycling has a lot to do with that, but participation in sports is also high and developing - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Cycling to school is another easy win, as children need to travel there and back, so why not use a bike - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) noble friend Lord Effingham set out, people can get fitter and healthier through increased walking and cycling - Speech Link
Correspondence May. 16 2024
Committee: Local Government, Housing and Planning CommitteeFound: supporting the transition to net -zero – for example through encouraging developments for walking, cycling
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.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15138 on Cycling: Pedestrian Areas, how he plans to support the DVSA in increasing awareness of Rule 64 of the Highway Code among cyclists.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Factual awareness-raising and behaviour change campaigns took place in 2022 and 2023, to highlight the changes the Department made to the Highway Code in January 2022, as part of helping to improve road safety for people walking, cycling, and horse riding.
The campaigns were supported by significant media resource: utilising channels such as radio, digital audio, video on demand, and social media advertising. This approach has helped the Department and DVSA to increase awareness of the relevant Highway Code rules for cycling.