PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cycling (16 October 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2015 to Question 11472, what (a) his Department's expenditure per head and (b) total expenditure from the public purse on cycling in each English region was in each year from 2011-12 to 2014-15; and what expenditure per head on cycling (i) by his Department and (ii) from the public purse is projected to be in each English region in 2015-16.

Asked by:
Lilian Greenwood (Labour)

Answer

In the five years 2011/12 to 2015/16, the Department for Transport (DfT) has increased its spend on cycling in England from £1 per head to £3 per head. Local authorities also spend significant amounts on cycling and over the same period, total spend on cycling in England has increased from £2 per head to £6 per head. Spend is over £10 per head in the eight Cycle Ambition Cities and London.

	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
DfT spend per head	£1	£2	£2	£2	£3
Total spend per head	£2	£4	£5	£5	£6

The DfT budgets are:

DfT budgets:	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	Projected spend 2015-16
Cycle-Rail		£7.0	£7.5		£14.0
Bikeability	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7
Junction safety		£30.0	£5.0
Linking Communities	£13.0	£8.0	£7.5
Cycling Ambition - Cities/National Parks			£46.6	£46.6	£15.0
Highways Agency			£4.8		£16.7
LSTF- Cycling	£37.8	£37.8	£37.8	£37.8	£64.5
LGF					£20.2
Total DfT	£62.5	£94.5	£120.9	£96.1	£142.1

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 also funds cycling programmes through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, with 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.

Lists of projects and locations are available for the following programmes:

Cycle-rail:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-rail-fund-schemes-2015-to-2016

Linking Communities:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/linking-places-fund

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/linking-places-fund-tranche-2

Local Sustainable Transport Fund:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-sustainable-transport-fund

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224172/project-summaries-consolidated.pdf

Cycle Ambition Cities and Cycling in National Parks:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-city-ambition-grants

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycling-in-national-parks-grants