Barry Sheerman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2015-12-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has invested in cycling in each of the last three years.
Mr Robert Goodwill
In the last three years, the Department for Transport (DfT)’s budgets for cycling programmes were:
|
DfT budgets: (million) |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
Cycle-Rail |
£7.0 |
£7.5 |
|
|
Bikeability |
£11.7 |
£11.7 |
£11.7 |
|
Junction safety |
£30.0 |
£5.0 |
|
|
Linking Communities |
£8.0 |
£7.5 |
|
|
Cycling Ambition – Cities/National Parks |
£46.6 |
£46.6 |
|
|
Highways Agency |
£4.8 |
||
|
LSTF- Cycling |
£37.8 |
£37.8 |
£37.8 |
|
Total DfT |
£94.5 |
£120.9 |
£96.1 |
In 2014-15, the Department’s dedicated cycling programmes were Bikeability, Cycle Ambition Cities, Cycling in National Parks and the Highways Agency’s cycling programme. The Department funds cycling programmes through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, with around 28% of the LSTF being spent on cycling. The Department secures a range of match funding contributions from local authorities for these programmes: the LSTF secured 99% match funding.
