Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her department will issue guidance for developers to support walking to school.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
On 12 June, the Government published the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3), which will enable more children to walk, wheel and cycle to school.
Active Travel England published its delivery plan on the same day, ‘Worth Every Step’, which sets out how it will support CWIS3. As part of this, Active Travel England will publish the ‘Streets for Schools’ tool and supplementary planning advice to support developers, local authorities and other transport and planning professionals involved in the planning, design and delivery of new and existing schools and the street environment around them.
Both the tool and advice note are designed for a wide range of users and organisations, setting out why active school travel matters and how they can design to maximise opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling to school.
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing additional measures across neighbourhoods to support walking to school.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Over the course of the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy we will focus on enabling millions more children to walk, wheel and cycle to school by supporting local authorities to provide safe, coherent networks that connect neighbourhoods which will deliver health benefits for generations to come. This includes providing more than £760 million of devolved funding for walking, wheeling and cycling schemes and £135 million of revenue funding to support schools and community-focused programmes.
Active Travel England’s (ATE) delivery plan, ‘Worth Every Step’, outlines how ATE will help ensure delivery of more safe routes to schools with mayors and local authorities.
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of the length of waiting times for applications to the criminal injuries compensation authority.
Answered by Catherine Atkinson
Figures up to 31 March 2025 are available in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) Annual Report and Accounts. The figures for the financial year 2025-26 will be available in the CICA Annual Report and Accounts 2025-26 which is due to be published before summer recess.
The reports are available at: gov.uk/government/collections/cica-annual-reports-and-accounts.
I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 June 2026 to Question 8809: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-10/8809.