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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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the budget for active travel has been reduced from £3.8 billion to £3 billion over this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	163807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not recognise the reduction that the Honourable Lady refers to. The figure of £3.8 billion was a projection of total investment from a wide range of Government funding streams over the five-year period of the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2), published in July 2022. The Department has had to make savings across all modes of travel to meet inflationary pressures caused in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, the Department continues to invest very significantly in active travel and will continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/03/2023 14:56:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

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date	13/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory training on special educational needs and disability for school governors.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	163807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2018 answer text <p>The department publishes the Governance Handbook and competency frameworks, which provide guidance on the roles and duties of governing boards, and advice on the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be effective.</p><p>The specific duties in relation to special educational needs and disability (SEND) are set out in the Governance Handbook. Every governing board should have an individual with specific oversight of their school’s arrangements for SEND.</p><p>Our guidance stresses the importance of training, but makes clear it is boards that know best what training their members need. It is right that we focus on holding boards to account for the outcome of their effectiveness.</p><p>We do not believe that it is for government to mandate or prescribe training.</p><p>The department does fund development programmes for governance leaders and clerks, and has recently announced an additional £3 million for governance training over the next three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/07/2018 16:07:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle