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date	13/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to meet the Government's target for 50 per cent of journeys in towns and cities to be undertaken through active travel by 2030.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	163808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitions for walking and cycling up to 2025 and 2030 are outlined in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2) which was published in July 2022. Many of the steps the Government is taking to boost walking and cycling were also outlined in the Government’s Gear Change plan, published in July 2020. A total of around £3 billion of Government funding is projected to be invested into active travel over this Parliament. This includes at least £100m of dedicated capital funding over the two-year period 2023/24 to 2024/25, and an expected £850m of dedicated capital funding over the first three years of this Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/03/2023 14:54:42 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1603077

registered interest
date	10/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it remains his Department's policy to have targets on (a) half of all journeys being walked or cycled by 2030, (b) 55 per cent of primary school children walking to school by 2025 and (c) walking or cycling becoming the natural choice for shorter journeys by 2040.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	162531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitions for walking and cycling up to 2025 and 2030 are outlined in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2) which was published in July 2022. The Strategy complements the Government’s Gear Change plan, which was published in July 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/03/2023 12:18:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1603120

registered interest
date	10/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on how many short journeys in towns and cities were (a) walked and (b) cycled in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	162518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department holds information on trips under 5 miles which are referred to as short journeys. This information is publicly available and derived from the National Travel Survey (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fview.officeapps.live.com%2Fop%2Fview.aspx%3Fsrc%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%252Fgovernment%252Fuploads%252Fsystem%252Fuploads%252Fattachment_data%252Ffile%252F1105866%252Fntsq09025.ods%26wdOrigin%3DBROWSELINK&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDominik.Lengauer%40dft.gov.uk%7C097745b2c2c54a72722708db24bd1658%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C638144166762890707%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ZXNKAl%2BQhJdSsj11jvAojZEHOuhmDyM8Z%2F7lMJVPi%2Fs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">NTSQ09025</a>).</p><p> </p><p>In England, in 2020, the average person completed 243 trips under 5 miles by walking in towns and cities and cycled 15 trips under 5 miles in towns and cities. In England, in 2021, the average person completed 241 trips under 5 miles by walking in towns and cities and cycled 12 trips under 5 miles in towns and cities. Data covering 2022 will be published in summer 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/03/2023 09:46:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh