Motorcycles
(asked on 11th 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 powered two wheelers in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to motorcycling in each period.
The Department holds data collected in the National Travel Survey (NTS) on the percentage of all trips made by motorcycle.
The table below shows the percentage of all trips made by motorcycle between 2009 and 2013:
Average number of motorcycle trips per person per year by main mode:
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2009
| 2010
| 2011
| 2012
| 2013
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Motorcycle
| 3
| 3
| 4
| 4
| 3
|
All modes
| 974
| 961
| 950
| 950
| 923
|
Percentage of all trips
| 0.3%
| 0.3%
| 0.4%
| 0.4%
| 0.3%
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Source: National Travel Survey
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During the five financial years 2009/10 to 2013/14, departmental spending on motorcycling is detailed in the table below:
£ thousands
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2009/10
| 2010/11
| 2011/12
| 2012/13
| 2013/14
| Total 09/10-13/14
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Spend on motorcycling
| 2,390
| 536
| 2,298
| 706
| 929
| 6,859
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Percentage of Department's spend
| 0.016%
| 0.004%
| 0.019%
| 0.006%
| 0.008%
| 0.011%
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The £6.859 million motorcycling spend represents 0.011% of the total departmental spend for those years.