Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0058 - Food, Diet and Obesity Obesity Health Alliance Written Evidence
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Travel to/from school by pupils in Northern Ireland 2022/23Found: From: Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research
Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) create a specific offence of causing death or serious injury by dangerous, careful or inconsiderate cycling - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) active travel areas north of the border compared with down here—“we want to encourage people to do more walking - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Ambiguity and confusion over the current and future legal status of e-scooters, both rental and privately - Speech Link
4: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Only Labour can bring the country together and deliver, from infrastructure to our public services. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) For instance, active travel measures such as cycling infrastructure are not always accessibly designed - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) and cycling, and show reductions in street crime. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The impact has been significant: a 50% drop in through traffic, more people walking and cycling, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) A Sustrans report into the cycling network identified 16,000 barriers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) One theme has recurred again and again: we talk the talk without walking the walk.The Government have - Speech Link
3: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) This needs to be urgently resolved.I turn to taxis, another critical part of our public transport infrastructure - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thomas of Winchester (LD - Life peer) problems with PIP assessments are the number one issue on MDUK’s helpline, particularly the change in the walking - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) and increased loneliness and isolation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) Cutbacks to council budgets have had a dramatic impact on a range of local sports infrastructure, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) infrastructure in a cost-neutral manner. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Cycling is fun. It is good exercise and it reduces pollution. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) and cycling in their daily lives. - Speech Link
Correspondence May. 16 2024
Committee: Local Government, Housing and Planning CommitteeFound: concerned that any delays in implementing Policy 2 will lead to avoidable risks of building high carbon infrastructure
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the the Institution of Civil Engineers and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure report entitled What are the public behavioural changes required to meet net zero?, published in February 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his polices of the finding that funding safe active travel infrastructure may support people looking to change their behaviour to reduce carbon emissions; and what steps his Department is taking to incentivise transport choices that reduce carbon emissions.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This Government’s approach to decarbonisation is not to stop people doing things, but to enable people to do the same things differently and more sustainably. The Government set out its plans for decarbonising transport in its 2021 Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) and has continued to build on these plans.
The Government agrees that funding safe active travel infrastructure can enable more people to choose walking, cycling and wheeling for short journeys, and that this in turn can reduce carbon emissions. The TDP includes an assessment of the carbon savings that are projected to be delivered by the Government’s current and projected future support for active travel. This support includes the investment of around £3 billion over the current Parliament, much of which will directly support the roll-out of safe and attractive active travel infrastructure.
May. 15 2024
Source Page: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cyclingFound: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling
May. 15 2024
Source Page: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cyclingFound: New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling