Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish their guidance for local authorities on Local Transport Plans and what is the reason for the delay in publishing this guidance.

As a result of changes including the unprecedented uplift in local transport funding announced as part of the Prime Minister’s Network North agenda, the Department is reconsidering the case for guidance to local authorities on Local Transport Plans. 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 Network North. 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.