To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of passenger journeys in the UK were made by bicycle in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to cycling in that time period.
Answered on
6 November 2014
The table below shows the percentage of all trips made by bicycle between 2009 and 2013:
| Average number of trips (trip rates) by main mode: England, to 2013 | |||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Bicycle | 16 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 14 |
| All modes | 974 | 961 | 950 | 950 | 923 |
| Cycling mode share % | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
Soure: NTS, Last updated: 29 July 2014
During the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15, departmental spending on cycling is detailed in the table below:
| Financial years 2010/11 - 2014/15 | Direct funding £224 million | |
| £million | ||
| Cycling Englad | 63.0 | |
| Cycling Cities & National Parks Fund | 94.0 | |
| Links to Schools & Linking Communities | 28.5 | |
| Cycle Safety Fund | 35.0 | |
| Cycle Rail | 14.5 | |
| Highways Agency | 4.8 | |
| Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Bikeability | 46.8 | |
| Local Sustainable Transport Fund - other cycling | 151.0 | |
| Total | 437.6 |
The £438 million on cycling spend represents 0.71% of the total departmental spend for those years.
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