Schools: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools were recorded by the 2009 school census as (i) walking and (ii) cycling to school; and for how many pupils no transport data were recorded by that census. (282601)

The requested information is shown in the table.

*Maintained primary*¹*, state-funded secondary*^{1, 2}*and special schools*³*: Mode of travel*⁴*, as at January 2009 (provisional), 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	Number of pupils for whom travel data were not supplied	Percentage of pupils for whom travel data were not supplied
Primary	2,262,990	55.5	39,520	1.0	150,100	3.7
Secondary	1,296,930	39.7	94,890	2.9	219,640	6.7
Special	2,610	3.0	230	0.3	3,970	4.5
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 are only mandatory at pupil level for schools with an approved school travel plan. Data were received for 7,057,190 of the total number of 7,430,910 solely registered pupils (excludes boarders). Source: School Census.

Volume 495: debated on Tuesday 7 July 2009