Cycling
(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of passenger journeys in the UK were made by bicycle in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to cycling in that time period.
This question was answered on 6th November 2014
The table below shows the percentage of all trips made by bicycle between 2009 and 2013:
| Average number of trips (trip rates) by main mode: England, to 2013 | |||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Bicycle | 16 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 14 |
| All modes | 974 | 961 | 950 | 950 | 923 |
| Cycling mode share % | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
Soure: NTS, Last updated: 29 July 2014
During the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15, departmental spending on cycling is detailed in the table below:
| Financial years 2010/11 - 2014/15 | Direct funding £224 million | |
| £million | ||
| Cycling Englad | 63.0 | |
| Cycling Cities & National Parks Fund | 94.0 | |
| Links to Schools & Linking Communities | 28.5 | |
| Cycle Safety Fund | 35.0 | |
| Cycle Rail | 14.5 | |
| Highways Agency | 4.8 | |
| Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Bikeability | 46.8 | |
| Local Sustainable Transport Fund - other cycling | 151.0 | |
| Total | 437.6 |
The £438 million on cycling spend represents 0.71% of the total departmental spend for those years.