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Mr. Khan: The four main streams of departmental funding to encourage cycling in England are local transport plan funding, cycle training grants, "Cycle City and
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Town" funding and links to school funding. Funding for cycling in Wales is administered by the Welsh Assembly and not by the Department for Transport.

Local Transport Plan F unding

The Department allocates integrated transport block and highways maintenance funding to local transport authorities for general capital investment in transport. This funding is not ring-fenced and local authorities have discretion to spend their allocations in line with their priorities.

Cycle T raining Grants

I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 89W.

Cycle City and Town Funding

The Department for transport funds 18 Cycle Cities and Towns through Cycling England. The first phase of the Cycling Demonstration Towns programme, from 2005 to 2008, saw six towns across England receive European levels of funding to significantly increase their cycling levels. Aylesbury, Brighton and Hove, Darlington, Derby, Exeter and Lancaster with Morecambe collectively received over £7 million from Cycling England across three years, plus local match-funding, to deliver a range of measures designed to get more people cycling.

In June 2008, Cycling England announced Greater Bristol as the England's first official Cycling City, together with a further 11 Cycling Towns across England. The new city and towns, together with the original six, will benefit from a share of £50 million of departmental funding (match funded by the local authority) to pioneer innovative ways to increase cycling in their areas.

The following table shows the funding situation as agreed with Cycling England in May 2009.

City or town	Local authority	2005-08( 1)	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	Total
Aylesbury	Buckinghamshire	765,000	460,000	300,000	300,000	1,825,000
Blackpool	Blackpool	-	400,000	1,220,000	1,220,000	2,840,000
Brighton and Hove	Brighton and Hove	1,389,500	435,000	635,000	535,000	2,994,500
Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	-	500,000	1,550,000	1,550,000	3,600,000
Chester	Cheshire	-	400,000	1,000,000	1,000,000	2,400,000
Colchester	Colchester	-	350,000	900,000	900,000	2,150,000
Darlington	Darlington	1,148,710	500,000	500,000	500,000	2,648,710
Derby	Derby	1,300,000	500,000	500,000	500,000	2,800,000
Exeter	Devon	1,559,500	751,000	750,500	760,500	3,821,500
Greater Bristol	Bristol City and South Gloucestershire	-	1,400,000	5,000,000	5,000,000	11,400,000
Lancaster with Morecambe	Lancashire	1,309,200	500,000	500,000	500,000	2,809,200
Leighton-Linslade	Central Bedfordshire	-	588,900	281,000	270,100	1,140,000
Shrewsbury	Shropshire	-	600,000	600,000	600,000	1,800,000
Southend	Southend	-	398,000	1,398,000	1,404,000	3,200,000
Southport and Ainsdale	Sefton Borough Council	-	300,000	750,000	750,000	1,800,000
Stoke	Stoke on Trent	-	.880,000	2,000,000	1,920,000	4,800,000
Woking	Surrey	-	364,000	728,000	728,000	1,820,000
York	York City Council	-	535,000	1,555,000	1,590,000	3,680,000
Total	-	7,471,910	9,861,900	20,167,500	20,027,600	57,528,910
(1 )1 November 2005 to 31 March 2008.

Links to schools

The Department provides funding to local authorities for the Links to Schools programme through our delivery agent Sustrans (Sustainable Transport Charity). The purpose of the funding is to encourage children to walk and cycle to school. Funding priorities are established by Sustrans. Sustrans is in the final stages of fully finalising their project list for 2009-10 and will be submitting a complete list to the Department shortly. A table showing the funding for 2005-06 to 2008-09 has been placed in the Libraries of the House.

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Cycling: Hertfordshire

Mike Penning: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) how much funding his Department has allocated to encourage bicycle usage in Hemel Hempstead constituency in each of the last three years; [289433]

(2) how much his Department allocated for cycle safety training in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Dacorum and (c) Hertfordshire in each of the last five years. [289446]

Mr. Khan: Department for Transport funding to encourage bicycle usage in Dacorum and Hemel Hempstead constituency is largely delivered through Hertfordshire county council. We do not allocate funding directly to Dacorum or Hemel Hempstead. The main three streams of departmental funding to encourage cycling are local transport plan funding, cycle training grants and links to school funding.

Local Transport Plan funding

The Department allocates integrated transport block and highways maintenance funding to local transport authorities for general capital investment in transport. This funding is not ring-fenced and local authorities have discretion to spend their allocations in line with their priorities. Local transport plan funding for Hertfordshire is shown in the table:

Hertfordshire
£000
	Integrated Transport	Formulaic Maintenance	Other LTP	Total LTP funding
2009-10	2,245	9,698	100	12,043
2008-09	11,512	11,151	394	23,057
2007-08	11,626	11,263	-	22,889

Cycle training grants

DFT cycle training grants are only available for national standard training, delivered in England as Bikeability training. Bikeability training promotes safe cycling for children. Cycle training funding for Hertfordshire for the last three years is shown in the table:

Hertfordshire
	Grant (£)
2007-08	59,500
2008-09	65,000
2009-10	70,000

This is in addition to any training funded by Hertfordshire county council.

Links to Schools and Cycle Parking

The Department also provides funding to local authorities for the Links to Schools programme through our delivery agent Sustrans (Sustainable Transport Charity).
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The purpose of the links is to encourage children to use sustainable modes (walking and cycling) on their way to and from school by creating safer and more convenient routes.

The following table shows departmental funding allocated to links to schools. The funding for 2007-08 was for links to a school in Hertford. With the contribution of the local authority, the total expenditure was £100,000:

Hertfordshire
	Grant (£)
2005-06	0
2006-07	0
2007-08	32,436
2008-09	0

Departmental Advertising

Pete Wishart: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department spent on advertising in each newspaper in the latest year for which figures are available. [289481]

Chris Mole: This information for the Department for Transport and its agencies is not held centrally in this format and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Consultants

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport in which of his Department's agencies consultants are acting as interim project managers. [289564]

Chris Mole: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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