Hansard

Schools: Transport

Volume 492: debated on Friday 15 May 2009

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Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of children who (a) cycle and (b) walk to school. (272867)

Jim Knight

The requested information is shown in the table.

Maintained primary1, state-funded secondary1,2 and special schools3: mode of travel as at January 2008, England

Number of pupils who walk to school

Percentage of pupils who walk to school

Number of pupils who cycle to school

Percentage of pupils who cycle to school

Total number of pupils for whom mode of travel was supplied4

Number/percentage of pupils5

3,148,390

49.9

123,010

1.9

6,312,120

1 Includes middle schools as deemed. 2 Includes CTCs and academies. 3 Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes General Hospital schools. 4 The collection of mode of travel to school data is only mandatory at pupil level for schools with an approved school travel plan. Data were received for 6,312,120 of the total number of 7,461,230 pupils. 5 Solely registered pupils. Excludes boarders. Source: School Census.