Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has been made of the (a) adequacy of funding arrangements for Bikeability and (b) Government’s progress on meeting the target of reaching every child with Bikeability lessons by the time they leave primary school.

The Department for Transport has increased the funding available for Bikeability each year since 2020 and is providing at least £21 million in the financial year of 2023-24. This is sufficient for half a million children to attend Bikeability cycle training. The Department remains committed to offering Bikeability cycle training to every child that wants it and is considering additional actions and investment to meet this target.

Provisional figures from the Bikeability Trust show that the proportion of year 6 children outside London that received basic road training by the end of primary school was at 51 per cent in 2022/23.