Question follow-through · 7186
Cycleways: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the availability of cycling infrastructure on employment levels.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the availability of cycling infrastructure on employment levels.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
Investment in cycling is crucial to supporting the economy, with recent evidence indicating that 3.6%, or over a million people, usually cycle to work and contributes about £5.4 billion to the British economy annually, with £4.1 billion resulting from red...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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