Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-13420

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 21 December 2022
Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 19 January 2023

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on its aim of achieving 10% of everyday trips being made by bike by 2020, and whether it will provide a breakdown of progress by local authority area.

Answer

In the previous Parliament, the then Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Michael Matheson, announced on 18 June 2019 that the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland vision that, by 2020, 10% of all journeys in Scotland would be made by bike would not be met. In this Parliamentary term, the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland will be succeeded by the Cycling Framework for Active Travel. A draft version of the cycling framework was put to public consultation in late 2022 and the final version will be published this year. The Framework takes account of the independent review of the previous Cycling Action Plan, which was carried out by Professor Tom Rye in 2020 and which made recommendations for the future priorities for cycling for active travel in Scotland.

Based on the latest Annual Cycling Monitoring Data, the cycling mode share broken down by local authority is as follows:

Authority	Cycling Mode Share (%)
Aberdeen City	0.83
Aberdeenshire	0.56
Angus	0.69
Argyll & Bute	1.08
Clackmannanshire	0.41
Dumfries & Galloway	0.68
Dundee City	0.61
East Ayrshire	0.25
East Dunbartonshire	1.52
East Lothian	3.71
East Renfrewshire	0.88
City of Edinburgh	2.59
Eilean Siar	0.56
Falkirk	0.43
Fife	0.27
Glasgow City	2.04
Highland	1.66
Inverclyde	0.13
Midlothian	0.86
Moray	1.09
North Ayrshire	2.11
North Lanarkshire	0.25
Orkney Islands	1.55
Perth and Kinross	0.54
Renfrewshire	1.64
Scottish Borders	1.25
Shetland Islands	0.45
South Ayrshire	0.50
South Lanarkshire	0.63
Stirling	1.19
West Dunbartonshire	1.94
West Lothian	0.76

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