The Department for Transport has provided £600 million of funding through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to enable local transport authorities to identify and implement the right solutions to meet the economic and environmental challenges faced in their areas. They include a variety of sustainable transport measures such as suitable infrastructure improvements for cycling and walking. 59 of the 96 funded projects contain an element promoting walking to schools. Of particular note is the ‘Walk to School Outreach’ project, which received £4.8 million from the Department via the Local Sustainable Transport fund. The programme is a partnership of 11 local authorities, led by Durham county council. The partnership is supported by national charity Living Streets to roll out an outreach programme, aimed at increasing levels of walking to school at primary and secondary schools in target locations. The Department has a close working relationship with Living Streets, and carefully considers advice from Living Streets when developing policy. The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker), spoke at the parliamentary launch of Walk to School week in 2013 and met children from a number of schools that had achieved success in making it easier to walk to school.