Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Table 1 of the second cycling and walking investment strategy published 6 July 2022, what double counting data error led to revisions made on 10 March 2023; and if he will make a statement.

The data error concerned one of the figures in Table One of the Strategy, and came to light as a result of internal discussions. The table in question incorrectly included £225 million of expenditure under the heading “projected investment from April 2021 to March 2025” when this funding had in fact already been accounted for in the period April 2016 to March 2021 in Table One of the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy Report to Parliament published in July 2022. This correction in no way affects the statutory status of the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.