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Schools: Transport

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many schools in England have school travel plans; [191698]

(2) how many schools in England have received public funding to help develop or implement school travel plans, broken down by local authority area. [191699]

Jim Knight: According to the most recent available figures, 14,063 schools in England have approved school travel plans.

The Department for Children Schools and Families and the Department for Transport are providing £7.5 million a year to fund a network of local authority based school travel plan advisers to work with schools to develop and implement school travel plans. DCSF is providing £20 million a year in capital grants to support maintained schools with approved travel plans—worth around £5,000 for a typical primary and around £10,000 for a typical secondary school.

The following table shows how many schools in England have received public funding to help develop or implement school travel plans by local authority area. This figure includes independent schools that receive school travel adviser assistance, but no grant funding.

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Local authority	Number of schools	School travel plans
Luton	86	34
Peterborough	80	49
Southend	63	65
Thurrock	57	58
Norfolk	488	384
Bedfordshire	236	148
Suffolk	387	176
Essex	628	439
Cambridgeshire	281	147
Hertfordshire	596	369
Nottingham City	136	62
Leicester City	125	46
Derby City	115	68
Nottinghamshire	378	188
Derbyshire	452	225
Northants	354	175
Leicestershire	305	161
Lincolnshire	402	301
Rutland	27	13
Tower Hamlets	109	82
Islington	73	44
Hackney	98	56
Camden	92	35
Newham	100	57
Lambeth	96	61
Southwark	116	46
Hammersmith and Fulham	75	35
Westminster	85	16
Haringey	97	79
Kensington and Chelsea	74	20
Greenwich	98	71
Lewisham	too	47
Barking and Dagenham	62	31
Ealing	109	28
Waltham Forest	91	60
Wandsworth	113	47
Brent	98	40
Corporation of London	5	0
Enfield	100	50
Hounslow	91	60
Croydon	162	65
Hillingdon	101	57
Barnet	152	58
Redbridge	91	48
Harrow	85	28
Merton	66	45
Richmond	75	54
Bromley	115	81
Sutton	71	41
Havering	97	60
Bexley	87	38
Kingston	64	37
Middlesbrough	60	43
Newcastle	109	54
South Tyneside	72	42
Hartlepool	40	31
Redcar and Cleveland	60	57
Gateshead	96	54
Durham	299	199
Sunderland	122	24
Stockton-on-Tees	86	39
Darlington	45	22
North Tyneside	84	33
Northumberland	211	105
Manchester	198	109
Liverpool	198	91
Knowsley	74	48
Wirral	146	71
Rochdale	119	62
Salford	121	60
Blackburn with Darwen	91	29
Halton	73	38
Blackpool	46	34
Oldham	120	54
St. Helens	74	38
Tameside	105	96
Sefton	121	67
Bolton	141	28
Wigan	139	59
Lancashire	692	323
Bury Metro	92	51
Cumbria	357	203
Stockport	140	74
Trafford	112	46
Cheshire	367	171
Warrington	92	54
Southampton	91	76
Slough	53	28
Brighton and Hove	97	66
Reading	63	41
Isle of Wight	74	32
Portsmouth	77	54
Milton Keynes	123	65
East Sussex	230	131
Kent	713	335
Medway	117	73
Oxfordshire	347	220
Hampshire	602	333
Surrey	530	278
West Berkshire	95	64
Bracknell Forest	45	26
Windsor and Maidenhead	84	31
West Sussex	356	222
Buckinghamshire	272	97
Wokingham	78	40
Bristol	181	91
Torbay	48	41
Plymouth	111	59
Bournemouth	46	29
Cornwall	297	168
North Somerset	89	62
Devon	422	298
Swindon	84	51
Gloucestershire	341	162
BANES	89	55
Somerset	318	141
South Gloucestershire	120	66
Wiltshire	276	142
Dorset	207	127
Poole	46	24
Scilly Isles	1	0
Birmingham	469	258
Sandwell	124	91
Stoke-on-Trent	105	68
Wolverhampton	121	74
Walsall	135	64
Coventry	130	77
Telford and Wrekin	83	77
Dudley	116	68
Solihull	94	49
Staffordshire	425	224
Worcestershire	291	188
Warwickshire	270	112
Herefordshire	115	86
Shropshire	190	146
Bradford	228	144
North East Lincolnshire	81	69
Leeds	286	150
Hull	103	40
Barnsley	101	71
Sheffield	191	126
Rotherham	135	101
Doncaster	138	77
Kirklees	211	85
Wakefield	164	76
Calderdale	115	71
North Lincolnshire	88	53
York	76	53
East Riding of Yorkshire	166	95
North Yorkshire	420	393
Total	25,040	14,063

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