SMARTER TRAVEL CHOICES INITIATIVES

That this House notes the success of Smarter Choices initiatives in providing transport advice and information resulting in significant reductions in car trips and increased use of low carbon transport modes including buses, car sharing, cycling and walking; further notes the success of the Department for Transport's pilot projects in Darlington, Peterborough and Worcester; further notes the Committee on Climate Change's call for a phased national rollout of Smarter Choices schemes in its first annual progress report to Government; further notes Smarter Choices is a low-cost way of cutting carbon emissions; and calls on the Government to announce a phased rollout of Smarter Choices programmes across England.