That this House notes that walking and cycling regularly are easy ways to build physical activity into one's daily lifestyle, and that physical activity can reduce the risk of premature death and of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, whilst maintaining good health; further notes that the UK's obesity epidemic has coincided with declining walking and cycling activity, particularly among children, and that European countries with the most cycling activity have the lowest obesity levels; further notes that replacing car trips with walking or cycling, alone or combined with public transport, also contributes to transport, economic, environmental and social objectives, by reducing congestion, danger, pollution, including greenhouse emissions and noise, social exclusion and pressure for road and parking space; therefore supports the efforts of walking, cycling and health organisations to promote increased levels of active travel; and welcomes Government proposals for an Active Travel Action Plan, while urging that this should contain a central objective for substantially increased walking and cycling activity, backed by commitments to mainstream active travel within wider transport and planning policy, by measures to improve walking and cycling conditions, including reductions in traffic volumes or speeds where people want to walk or cycle, promotional and awareness raising campaigns, integration with public transport, by support from and identified roles for Government departments and other organisations responsible for education, health, social inclusion, retailing, regeneration, urban and rural economic development, recreational, law enforcement and fiscal policy, and by mechanisms to monitor and ensure local delivery of active travel strategies.

That this House notes that walking and cycling regularly are easy ways to build physical activity into one's daily lifestyle, and that physical activity can reduce the risk of premature death and of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, whilst maintaining good health; further notes that the UK's obesity epidemic has...

That this House welcomes the Government's stated intention to roll forward its 10 Year Plan for Transport this summer; notes that the current 10 Year Plan primarily focuses on transport in England but its implications will be felt across Britain; further notes the plan's emphasis on large infrastructure-based solutions which will lead to an increase in traffic levels, exacerbating the trend towards increased travel, and favours the wealthiest 20 per cent. of society at the expense of the least well-off; is concerned that its predictions and targets, if fulfilled, would result in a 16 per cent. increase between 2000 and 2010 in the time we spend travelling by car; believes that transport policy should aim to halt and reverse the growth of traffic, not merely congestion and pollution, and to improve access to services and facilities close to people so that there is no necessity to drive; therefore calls for the revised 10 Year Plan to focus on encouraging people to replace more car trips with walking, cycling and public transport, believing that such a plan would contribute more effectively to the nation's health and also to a range of other objectives, including reducing congestion, road danger, social exclusion, pressure and ever more road space, damage to the countryside, and pollution, including noise and greenhouse gas emissions; and urges the Government to reallocate funding in the revised plan to reflect the manifesto set out by the Way to Go campaign, a coalition of over 25 major national environmental and social non-governmental organisations.

That this House welcomes the Government's stated intention to roll forward its 10 Year Plan for Transport this summer; notes that the current 10 Year Plan primarily focuses on transport in England but its implications will be felt across Britain; further notes the plan's emphasis on large infrastructure-based solutions which...