Source · Select Committees · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Recommendation 17
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Accepted
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During the first lockdown in spring 2020, active travel increased significantly, facilitated in part by...
Recommendation
During the first lockdown in spring 2020, active travel increased significantly, facilitated in part by timely Government action. It is important that this progress is not lost, and the Government must match its rhetoric on a longer-term shift to active travel with sufficient funding. It is important that this progress is not lost, and the Government must match its rhetoric on a longer-term shift to active travel with sufficient funding.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government is providing a second tranche of Active Travel Funding to local authorities, subject to conditions including proper consultation, to support the shift to active travel.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government has now provided over £200 million of funding to local authorities across Active Travel Fund. A further £257 million of funding was announced at the Spending 14 Government Response: Air Quality and coronavirus: a glimpse of a different future or business as usual Review in the autumn for further measures in 2021/22, the majority of which will go to local authorities. improving air quality and building a greener transport network. The Government is working closely with local authorities to tackle their nitrogen dioxide exceedances. Heavily built up areas will also benefit from the Prime Minister’s ambitious plans to boost cycling and walking and vision that half of all journeys in towns and cities are to be cycled or walked by 2030. This includes a £2 billion package of funding for active travel, which is the largest amount of funding ever committed to increasing cycling and walking in this country which was announced by the Prime Minister in July 2020. The Department for Transport plans to announce further details in due course of how funding will be allocated to local authorities in the next financial year.
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