Question follow-through · 100863
Pupils: Active Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that schools have an active travel plan to increase the number of children who walk or cycle to school (including those who walk the last half-mile).
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that schools have an active travel plan to increase the number of children who walk or cycle to school (including those who walk the last half-mile).
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Education Act 1996 places a duty on local authorities to promote sustainable travel on journeys to and from places of education in their area. Sustainable travel in this context is that which improves the physical wellbeing of users, the environmental...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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