Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 100863
Pupils: Active Travel
Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 8 January 2026
Question
Debbie Abrahams
Labour — Oldham East and Saddleworth
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).
Answer
Georgia GouldThe 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...
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