§ Lord Greavesasked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress is being made on the creation of the proposed Pennine cycleway; and what are the targets for achievement in 2002. [HL2244]
§ The Minister of State, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (Lord Falconer of Thoroton)The Pennine cycleway is part of the National Cycle Network being promoted by the transport charity Sustrans. The responsibility for progressing the network rests with Sustrans, not with central government.
Progress on the Pennine cycleway was delayed by the foot and mouth epidemic last year. I understand that Sustrans has recently received a rural recovery grant of £110,000 from the Countryside Agency for the Pennine cycleway. This should enable progress to be made on the completion of a number of missing links in the cycleway during the early part of 2002.