AQW 9371/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline his Department's spending on active travel in North Down in the last three years, including details of the projects in which the spend occurred.
Asked by Connie Egan MLA on 21 March 2024
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 21 March 2024
- Answer due by
- 9 April 2024
- Answered
- 10 April 202420 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Monitoring of Active Travel spend within the Department is not broken down by parliamentary constituency. The North Down constituency falls within the Ards and North Down Borough Council area which forms part of DfI Southern Division.
The following figures were recorded against Southern Division’s specific capital Active Travel projects for the current financial year to 31 January 2024 and the three previous financial years:
| Financial Year | £m |
| 2020/21 | 0.4 |
| 2021/22 | 1.9 |
| 2022/23 | 0.9 |
| 2023/24 (to January 2024) | 1.0 |
The Department also issued letters of offer to the Ards and North Down Council for the delivery of two greenways, namely: Comber to Newtownards Greenway (£2.4m) and Newtownards to Green Road Bangor Greenway (£2.3m).
Projects relating to Active Travel in Ards and North Down Council area can be found in each of the Department’s Roads Reports to Council;
Annual Report to Ards and North Down Borough Council 2020/2021 | Department for Infrastructure (infrastructure-ni.gov.uk)
Annual Report to Ards and North Down Borough Council 2021/2022 | Department for Infrastructure (infrastructure-ni.gov.uk)
Annual Report to Ards and North Down Borough Council 2022/2023 | Department for Infrastructure (infrastructure-ni.gov.uk)
Annual Report to Ards and North Down Borough Council 2023/2024 | Department for Infrastructure (infrastructure-ni.gov.uk)