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<p>The Department estimates that over the three years from 2016/17 to 2018/19, a total
of around £1.2 billion of funding has been invested in cycling and walking projects
in England outside London. This equates to approximately £8.50 per capita per annum,
but the amount varies considerably between individual local authorities. The Department
will be publishing detailed information on the funding that has been provided from
the public purse, including estimates of funding allocations to individual authorities,
alongside its report to Parliament later this year on the delivery of the Cycling
and Walking Investment Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for cycling and walking comes
from a wide variety of ring-fenced and non-ringfenced sources making it difficult
to summarise the information concisely for each local authority. Ring-fenced funds
that were available to some or all local authorities over the three years in question
include the Bikeability programme, the Access Fund, the Cycle Ambition Cities fund,
the Cycle Safety Fund, Cycle Rail grants, and Highways England Designated Funds. Non-ringfenced
funds that were available to some or all local authorities over the same period, and
of which of a proportion was used to support cycling and walking, include the Local
Growth Fund, the Integrated Transport Block, the Highways Maintenance Fund, the National
Air Quality Plan, the National Productivity Investment Fund, the Highways Maintenance
Challenge Fund, and other cross-Government infrastructure funds, including the Transforming
Cities Fund and Housing Infrastructure Fund.</p>
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