Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for (a) walking and (b) cycling in the (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The table below summarises the amounts of dedicated funding for active travel provided by the Department for Transport in the current and previous financial year. It is not possible to provide separate totals for investment in walking schemes and investment in cycling schemes. The figures do not include the funding for active travel that comes from wider funding streams such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). The Department’s highways maintenance funding for local authorities provides further funding for roads and pavements and so also benefits cyclists and pedestrians.
Year | Dedicated capital funding for active travel (£ million) | Dedicated revenue funding for active travel (£ million) |
2021-22 | 209 | 70 |
2022-23 | 200 | 71 |
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department will provide for active travel in this Parliament.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In total, the Government expects to provide around £3 billion of funding for active travel over this Parliament from a wide range of Departmental and cross-Government funding streams. Further detail is provided in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2), published in July 2022, a copy of which is in the House libraries. The figure will be updated in the next Report to Parliament on the delivery of CWIS2.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2023 to Question 165429 on Active Travel: Finance, when he plans to publish the next report on the delivery of the cycling and walking investment strategy.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department expects to publish the next statutory report to Parliament in due course, alongside the publication of the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3).
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 March 2023 on Transport Update, HCWS625, whether the policies set out in the Answers to Questions (a) 147238, (b) 147239 and (c) 147243 on Travel: Finance remain his policies.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Yes.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2023 to Question 147240 on Cycling and Walking: Finance, when he plans to publish the findings of his Department's cycling and walking investment strategy active travel investment model.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The active travel model was developed in 2019 and published in 2020 to underpin the development of the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2), which was published in July 2022. The publication of the full results of the modelling was delayed because of the pandemic and other pressures. The Department is considering next steps, including what further modelling might be needed to inform the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3).
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 9 March 2023 on Transport Update, whether the projected investment from April 2021 to April 2025 outlined in the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy has been revised.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government will provide an update on this in its next report to Parliament on the delivery of the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Written Statement entitled Transport Update published on 9 March, what assessment his Department has made on the potential impact of cuts to active travel funding on the Government's target for half of journeys to be walked or cycled by 2030.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The total amount of funding needed to achieve the Government’s target for half of all journeys in towns and cities to be walked or cycled by 2030 depends on a wide range of factors. Since the first-ever statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS1) in 2017, the Government has made a great deal progress. Over the course of this Parliament, the Department expects over £3 billion to be invested in delivering safe and accessible walking and cycling infrastructure and providing training that gives people the skills and confidence to walk and cycle more as part of their everyday journeys.
An assessment of the extent to which the Government is on track to meet the 2030 target will be made as part of the development of the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3) in due course.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it remains his Department's policy to have targets on (a) half of all journeys being walked or cycled by 2030, (b) 55 per cent of primary school children walking to school by 2025 and (c) walking or cycling becoming the natural choice for shorter journeys by 2040.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government’s ambitions for walking and cycling up to 2025 and 2030 are outlined in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2) which was published in July 2022. The Strategy complements the Government’s Gear Change plan, which was published in July 2020.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on implementing the Road condition data and technology review, published in August 2021; and what his timetable is for the delivery of that review.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The Department for Transport (DfT) has chosen to take forward option 3 outlined in the Road condition data and technology review position paper; that ‘Local highway authorities can choose any surveying technology that aligns to a new industry data standard.’
DfT has now established the data standard steering group with representatives from both local highway authorities and industry experts and has procured the services of the British Standards Institute (BSI) in March 2022 and Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) as technical author in August 2022. These bodies will develop this new data standard, which will be inclusive of multiple technologies whilst providing robust comparable road condition data for national reporting by DfT.
The DfT aims to publish the new data standard at the end of 2023, and is continuing to work with BSI, TRL, and the steering group of industry experts as part of the iterative development of the standard. Once the standard is in place in 2024, there will be a period to enable technology providers and local highway authorities to fully conform to it. The DfT intends to have a full switch to the new data standard from 2026 onwards.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) number of people currently waiting for a practical driving test and (b) average waiting time for a practical driving test.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
As of 6 March 2023, there were 530,456 car practical driving tests booked and 61,000 driving tests available within the next 24-weeks.