Cycling and Walking: Primary Education

(asked on 21st July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage primary school children to walk and cycle to school as they re-open in September 2020.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 1st September 2020

£225 million has been made available to local authorities this financial year for urgent measures to make it easier for people to walk and cycle for all short journeys, including to support the re-opening of schools. This in addition to existing support for the Walk to School outreach programme delivered by Living Streets. The Department for Education has also produced updated travel to school guidance for the autumn term 2020 which states that schools and colleges should encourage parents, staff and pupils to walk or cycle to school where it is safe and appropriate to do so.

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