§ Mr. ColvinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will meet local government representatives to discuss the contribution of local authorities towards the Government's target of a four-fold increase in cycling by 2012; and if he will make a statement. [5805]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe National Cycling Strategy is not the Government's, though we have given it our early endorsement. We intend to work with other to implement it. The Strategy has a common ownership, having been established by consensus involving a wide range of interested bodies.
I shall he meeting representatives of local government when I chair the national Cycling Forum on 16 July. We shall he discussing a range of the issues involved in taking 55W the National Cycling Strategy forward. That will inevitably focus on progress to implement the targets identified in the Strategy for increasing cycle use.