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<p>All schemes delivered though Highways England’s Cycling, Safety and Integration
designated fund must demonstrate value for money using an appraisal developed with
key stakeholders. This assesses a number of potential benefits such as increased trips
and accidents savings. Highways England continues to develop its evaluation process
for different designated funds, starting with the Cycling, Safety and Integration
designated fund, in order to measure the effectiveness of the projects delivered and
ensure that future programmes maximise their benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The total budget
for the Cycling, Safety and Integration designated fund is £175m until 2020. Of that
sum £53.5m had been spent by January 2018 which represents 31% of the total. The Cycling,
Safety and Integration designated fund spend for the 2016/17 financial year was £18.1m.</p><p>
</p><p>The expectation has been that Highways England would develop schemes for this
fund in the early years of the first road investment period, and then build them in
the later years. The effect of this should be that that more schemes are built in
the next two years than in the past two.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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