Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for publishing updated guidance for local transport authorities on local transport plans; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that local stakeholders reviewing their LTPs are made aware of any potential changes to guidance.

As a result of the unprecedented uplift in local transport funding announced as part of the Network North plan, the Department is reconsidering the case for guidance to local authorities on this matter. The Department aims to publish, in the spring of this year, advice to local authorities on the new local transport funds announced as part of the Network North plan. The Department will provide updates to local authorities in due course. In the meantime, local authorities should continue to update their local transport plans as they see fit, giving regard to published national transport policy and local priorities.