Speeches

Daniel Zeichner – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the correlation between cycle usage and household income.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The number of cycle trips and distance cycled per person per year for different household income levels (based on data for households in England in 2014) are given in the table.

Real household income quintile

Lowest real income level

Second level

Third level

Fourth level

Highest real income level

All income levels

Cycle trips per person per year

21

15

15

18

21

18

Distance cycled (miles) per person per year

50

46

43

64

88

58