Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 3 July 2019.
Minister, the Welsh Government released in December last year a statistical bulletin on active travel, 'Walking and cycling in Wales', compiled by the Office for National Statistics. And the figures show that 44 per cent of children actively travel to primary school; 34 per cent of children actively travel to secondary school. So, with new state-of-the-art education facilities being built and opened throughout Wales, the planned educational environment that we are building in the twenty-first century in Wales can tip and influence travel behaviour of the future generations of Welsh citizens. So, Minister, how is, then, the Welsh Government's transformative twenty-first century schools building programme being shaped to directly increase children adopting active travel as their method of choice to get to and from school?