Daniel Zeichner – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2015-11-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will identify which government-funded cycling programmes will (a) continue to be funded, (b) cease to be funded and (c) have their funding reduced in each of the next five years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The DfT is funding a number of cycling programmes as below:

• the Cycling Ambition City programme until 2017/18; any further investment is subject to future spending decisions;
• the Highways England cycling programme until 2020-21;
• the DfT is funding Bikeability until 2019-20;
• the Local Growth Fund, which includes funding for cycling schemes, is being funded until 2020-21.
• the new Access fund, which will build on the legacy of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, will be funded until 2019-20.
• The Cycle / Rail programme will run until the end of 2015/16.