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 creating a Road Collision Investigation Branch; and when he expects that Branch to be fully operational.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The Government intends to bring forward measures to enable the creation of a Road Safety Investigation Branch as soon as Parliamentary time allows.
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 has been allocated to City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements for active travel in each of the financial years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) programme the Government has agreed five-year local transport funding settlements for seven eligible city regions from April 2022. CRSTS funding is supporting improvements across a range of transport modes, but based on the plans put forward by Mayors the Government expect at least £700m to be allocated to active travel infrastructure over the period 2022-25.
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 9 February 2023 to Question 140382 on Travel: Finance, what the (a) actual and (b) predicted (i) capital and (ii) revenue funding was for active travel in each financial financial year between 2020-21 and 2024-25; and what the purpose is of each budget line.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Year | Capital (£ million) | Revenue (£ million) |
2020-21 | 192 | 115 |
2021-22 | 209 | 70 |
2022-23 | 200 (predicted) | 69 (actual) 2 (predicted) |
The table above outlines actual dedicated funding for active travel for the period 2020/21 to 2022/23 unless indicated as predicted funding. These figures do not include funding from wider sources within the Department such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). The Autumn Statement of 17 November confirmed the Department for Transport’s overall funding levels for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The Department is currently considering the budget for active travel as part of its examination of all future spending plans following that Statement.
Capital funding typically funds walking and cycling infrastructure programmes such as the Active Travel Fund. Revenue funding supports a range of programmes to enable more people to walk, wheel and cycle including the Capability Fund and Bikeability.
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 policy paper entitled Cycling and walking plan for England, published on 27 July 2020, whether he plans to spend the £2 billion of ringfenced funding for active travel in the period between 2020-21 to 2024-25; and with reference to the policy paper entitled The second cycling and walking investment strategy, published on 6 July 2022, whether he plans to spend the £1.298 billion of ringfenced funding for cycling and walking in the period between 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government expects to invest over £850 million in active travel between 2020-21 and 2022-23 – a record amount of funding. This is in addition to other sources of funding such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). CRSTS delivery plans were published in July 2022 for seven eligible city regions and include details of active travel elements.
The Autumn Statement of 17 November confirmed the Department for Transport’s overall funding levels for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The Department is currently considering the budget for active travel as part of its examination of all future spending plans following that Statement.
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's cycling and walking investment strategy active travel investment model predicts will be needed to achieve his Department's objective to (a) double cycling and (b) increasing walking trips by 2025; and if he will publish the (i) results and (ii) supporting evidence from that model.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The actual amount will depend on a wide variety of factors including the high degree of uncertainty over the long-term impact of the pandemic on walking and cycling stages.
The publication of this part of the research has been delayed as a result of the pandemic and other pressures. Much has changed since it was carried out, and the Department is considering next steps.
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 his Department spent on Active Travel in the financial year 2020-21.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department spent £307 million on dedicated active travel funding in 2020/21. This figure does not include funding from wider sources within the Department.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimates he has made of the funding needed to meet the objectives of (a) doubling cycling by 2025, (b) increasing walking trips by 2025, and (c) increasing the proportion of trips in towns and cities that are walked or cycled to 50% by 2030; and if he will publish the evidence on which those estimates are based.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In the 2022/23 - 2024/25 Spending Review period £710m was allocated for active travel. This is subject to post-Autumn Statement departmental business planning decisions. The Department has spent over £500m to date on active travel over the period 2021/22 to 2022/23.
The second ‘Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) Report to Parliament’, published in July 2022, provides the most comprehensive report on progress towards meeting the 2025 objectives. The report also details how the Department’s CWIS Investment Model has been used to estimate the impact of anticipated spending on walking and cycling levels up to 2025.
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 has been ringfenced for active travel between the financial years 2021-22 and 2024-25.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In the 2022/23 - 2024/25 Spending Review period £710m was allocated for active travel. This is subject to post-Autumn Statement departmental business planning decisions. The Department has spent over £500m to date on active travel over the period 2021/22 to 2022/23.
The second ‘Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) Report to Parliament’, published in July 2022, provides the most comprehensive report on progress towards meeting the 2025 objectives. The report also details how the Department’s CWIS Investment Model has been used to estimate the impact of anticipated spending on walking and cycling levels up to 2025.
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 6 July 2022 on Second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, HCWS184, what progress the Government has made on the objectives of (a) doubling cycling and (b) increasing levels of walking across the community by 2025.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In the 2022/23 - 2024/25 Spending Review period £710m was allocated for active travel. This is subject to post-Autumn Statement departmental business planning decisions. The Department has spent over £500m to date on active travel over the period 2021/22 to 2022/23.
The second ‘Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) Report to Parliament’, published in July 2022, provides the most comprehensive report on progress towards meeting the 2025 objectives. The report also details how the Department’s CWIS Investment Model has been used to estimate the impact of anticipated spending on walking and cycling levels up to 2025.
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 Answer of 26 January 2023 to Question 129918 on Cycling and Walking: Infrastructure, if he will provide a list of Local Authorities who have developed Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Active Travel England collected information about the status of Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) in August 2022 as part of Local Authority capability self-assessments. 78 upper tier authorities confirmed that they have developed LCWIPs for some or all of their areas. A list of these authorities will be placed in the Libraries of the House.