Cycling and Walking
(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's average annual expenditure on (a) cycling and (b) walking per head was in each year from 2011-12 to 2015-16; and what plans his Department has for annual investment in (i) cycling and (ii) walking after April 2016.
In the five years 2011/12 to 2015/16, the Department for Transport (DfT) has increased its spend on cycling in England from £1 per head to £3 per head. Local authorities also spend significant amounts on cycling and so over the same period, total spend on cycling in England has increased from around the £2 per head inherited from the previous Labour administration to £6 per head. Spend per head is over £10 per head in the eight Cycle Ambition Cities and London.
Cycling Programmes | Average spend in each year of programme (£m) | ||||
2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
DfT spend per head | £1 | £2 | £2 | £2 | £3 |
Total spend per head | £2 | £4 | £5 | £5 | £6 |
All the figures above are to the nearest pound
The DfT has invested in walking programmes through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, with spend of around 40p per head in each year from 2011-12 to 2014-15. No figure is available for 2015-16.
For investment plans beyond April 2016, the Department must act upon the Secretary of State’s duty to set a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with objectives.