To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many children used each means of transport to and from school in (a) 2007 and (b) 2009 according to school census returns, broken down by local authority; (293373)

The requested information has been placed in the Libraries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on walking to school initiatives in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. (293403)

Since 2003 the Department, in conjunction with the Department for Transport, has jointly funded the ‘Travelling to School Initiative’ which sets out a series of measures to support local authorities and schools encourage more children to walk, cycle or take the bus to school. In 2009-10, £14.11 million in small capital grants has been allocated to schools with approved school travel plans, supported by £6.8 million joint revenue funding of local authority based school travel advisers.