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Written Question
Planning Permission: Active Travel
Thursday 7th March 2024

Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of national planning policy framework for active travel.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The National Planning Policy Framework already states that planning policies should “provide for attractive and well-designed walking and cycling networks with supporting facilities which are designed to promote active travel”.


Written Question
Active Travel: Finance
Tuesday 5th March 2024

Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department plans to provide to local authorities for active travel plans in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department for Transport is currently providing £70 million of dedicated funding to local authorities in 2023-24, for developing and delivering local infrastructure schemes and to boost capability and enable higher levels of walking and cycling. Funding for local authorities in 2024-25 is subject to final Departmental business planning decisions.


Written Question
Pedestrian Crossings
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Independent - Enfield, Southgate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to enforce pedestrian priority at pedestrian crossing points without traffic control measures as set out in the update to the Highway Code in January 2022.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Highway Code changes to improve road safety for people walking, cycling, and riding horses aim to initiate a positive shift in road user behaviour, by making road users aware of their responsibility to use roads safely and reduce the danger they may pose to others.

Enforcement of the law is a matter for the police, who will decide on the evidence of each individual case, whether an offence has been committed and the appropriate action to take.


Written Question
Cycling and Walking: West Yorkshire
Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Asked by: Mark Eastwood (Conservative - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided to support (a) cycling and (b) walking activities in (i) Dewsbury constituency and (ii) West Yorkshire in the last 12 months.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

In the last 12 months, Active Travel England has awarded West Yorkshire Combined Authority £2,530,967 of revenue funding through the Capability Fund, and £17,430,668 of capital funding through the fourth tranche of the Active Travel Fund. This funding has been provided to support active travel as a whole in the region and is not split between walking and cycling. West Yorkshire Combined Authority decides on how this funding is allocated locally.

Annual payments are also made to West Yorkshire Combined Authority for Levelling Up Fund and City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement Schemes. This includes a £330,000 scheme for a Dewsbury-Batley-Chidswell bus, cycling and walking corridor.


Written Question
Bicycles: Theft
Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle bike thefts in (a) London and (b) Havering.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Crime Survey England and Wales latest findings shows bicycle theft is down 54% in year ending June 2023, compared with year ending March 2010.

In 2020 the Government published Gear Change – a bold vision for cycling and walking. Theme 4 of Gear Change includes various initiatives to reduce cycle theft.

Through National Cycle Crime Group, working with Department for Transport, Cycle Crime Reduction Partnerships have been set up across the country to coordinate regional enforcement activity to disrupt organised cycle theft and raise awareness of better security. Partnerships have been established in in Birmingham, Manchester, Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, and Wales, with more currently being established in London.

British Transport Police have also launched the ‘double lock it’ campaign with police forces and organisations, providing advice to owners to help better protect their bicycles. Further information on the campaign and bicycle locks can be found here: https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/double-lock-it/.


Written Question
Road Traffic Offences: Reoffenders
Monday 15th January 2024

Asked by: Selaine Saxby (Conservative - North Devon)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendation that the Government should consider the introduction of escalating penalties for repeat traffic offences made in the Road Justice report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking in September 2023.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

No such assessment has been made.


Written Question
Cycling: Slough
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to increase the number of cycle routes in Slough.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government remains committed to the vision that by 2030 half of all journeys in towns and cities are walked or cycled. Over £11 million has been provided to Slough Borough Council to construct new cycling and walking routes through the Active Travel Fund since 2020.

Active travel capital grant funding is awarded to authorities on the understanding that scheme designs will be appropriately reviewed and inspected by Active Travel England (ATE). Authorities are required to work with ATE to resolve any critical safety issues that are identified. Future funding may be reduced if an authority fails to rectify identified design issues.


Written Question
Cycling and Pedestrians: Safety
Monday 18th December 2023

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase safety for (a) cyclists and (b) pedestrians in towns and cities.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government has created a new agency, Active Travel England (ATE), to improve the safety, accessibility and quality of walking and cycling schemes. ATE reviews proposed schemes to ensure they comply with good practice design guidance. The Government is providing over £3 billion of funding to local authorities up to 2025 to increase walking, wheeling and cycling in towns and cities in England. In January 2022, the Government also updated The Highway Code to improve road safety for people walking, cycling and riding horses.


Written Question
Bicycles: Portsmouth South
Friday 15th December 2023

Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to support young people purchase bicycles in Portsmouth South constituency.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Active Travel England is providing funding to local authorities through the Active Travel Capability Fund, which can be used for a range of initiatives to enable more people of all ages to walk, wheel and cycle, including access to cycles. Portsmouth City Council received £74,658 through this fund for 2022/23. Active Travel England also awarded Portsmouth City Council £653,580 of capital funding for the same period, which will be used to build, improve and maintain infrastructure to support walking, wheeling and cycling. The Government also supports affordable access to cycles through the Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which is also open to under 18-year-olds in employment (conditions apply).


Written Question
Transport: Portsmouth South
Thursday 14th December 2023

Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve transport for young people in Portsmouth South constituency.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

My department has provided financial support for Portsmouth City Council to deliver a number of transport schemes that everyone in the community can benefit from. These include:

  • £58 million from the Transforming Cities Fund, that will provide greater travel choices by improving public and sustainable transport in the city.
  • £48 million in for Bus Service Improvement Plan funding for more frequent, accessible and greener transport.
  • £1.32 million since 2020, under the Government’s Active Travel Fund that supports local transport authorities with producing cycling and walking facilities.

The £2 bus fare cap benefits all bus passengers throughout the country.