§ Mr. BreedTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2002,Official Report, column 466W, on car use, what the (a) location of and (b) amount spent on each bursary was in (i) 2000–01 and (ii) 2001–02. [68759]
§ Mr. JamiesonIn February 2001 we awarded 111 bursaries to 84 local authorities at a cost of £9 million over three years, to employ co-ordinators to support the development of travel plans for schools and places of work. The location and amount claimed by each local authority has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
§ Mr. BreedTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2002,Official Report, column 466W, on car use, what assessment he has made of the travel plans presented by the local authorities; and which plans were identified by his Department as examples of best practice. [68758]
§ Mr. JamiesonAlthough we have carried out research to establish the number of plans being implemented by local authorities, we have not undertaken an evaluation of the individual plans themselves. However, we intend to publish shortly a guide on "Making Travel Plans Work: Lessons from UK Case Studies" together with the research report and the 20 case study summaries on which the guide is based. Two of these case studies are of plans prepared by local authorities, Buckinghamshire county council and Wycombe district. We are about to commission an evaluation of the bursary scheme for local authority travel plan co-ordinators and an evaluation of the programme of free site-specific advice on travel plans.