Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to increase the number of people earning the (a) National Minimum Wage and (b) National Living Wage who can access the Cycle 2 Work scheme.

In 2019 the Department for Transport revised the guidance on this scheme to make it simpler for employers to offer it to their employees. The guidance makes clear that if a salary sacrifice agreement would put an employee’s salary below the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage, there are various options available to the employer. These include offering the employee a longer than usual hire period, or hiring a cycle to them under an employer loan scheme. The Department has no current plans to make any further changes to the Cycle to Work scheme.