PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cycling (3 November 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of passenger journeys in the UK were made by bicycle in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to cycling in that time period.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The table below shows the percentage of all trips made by bicycle between 2009 and 2013:

Average number of trips (trip rates) by main mode: England, to 2013
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Bicycle	16	15	16	17	14
All modes	974	961	950	950	923
Cycling mode share %	1.7	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.9

Soure: NTS, Last updated: 29 July 2014

During the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15, departmental spending on cycling is detailed in the table below:

Financial years 2010/11 - 2014/15		Direct funding £224 million
	£million
Cycling Englad	63.0
Cycling Cities & National Parks Fund	94.0
Links to Schools & Linking Communities	28.5
Cycle Safety Fund	35.0
Cycle Rail	14.5
Highways Agency	4.8
Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Bikeability	46.8
Local Sustainable Transport Fund - other cycling	151.0
Total	437.6

The £438 million on cycling spend represents 0.71% of the total departmental spend for those years.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
6 November 2014