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Railway Network: Bicycles

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what guidance her Department issues to train operating companies on the carriage of bicycles on trains. (220649)

The Department's cycling policy document and the rail White Paper published last year set out our policy. We want all TOCs to take into account the wider benefits of cycling when considering both investments in cycle facilities and their own rules for carrying cycles.

The White Paper also announced the setting up of a task force to look into how bike and rail journeys can be better integrated. The task force includes ATOC, Network Rail, Passenger Focus, Cycling England and Transport for London. I look forward to hearing about their progress later this year.