Department for Transport: Annual Reports
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 21 of her Department's report entitled Department for Transport annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025, published on 22 July 2025, if she will provide a breakdown of the £644 million expenditure on Sustainable travel, including (a) the projects and programmes funded and (b) the amount allocated to each.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
Page 21 of the Annual Report & Accounts is the ‘Financial Overview’ report, which presents total departmental spending by Estimate Line. ‘Sustainable Travel’ is an Estimate Line descriptor shown in the Statement of Parliamentary Supply within the 2024-25 Annual Report & Accounts. This Estimate Line records spending incurred by the Core department and Active Travel England. A breakdown of the spending incurred in 2024-25 is provided in the table below.
| Capital DEL | Resource DEL |
Business area | Amount £m | Amount £m |
Active Travel England | 54 | 82 |
Decarbonisation, Technology and Strategy Group | 398 | 37 |
Rail Strategy and Services Group | 19 | 15 |
Road Transport Group | 17 | 22 |
Sub-total | 488 | 156 |
Overall total | 644 | |
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