{"id":964,"date":"2013-08-30T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=964"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:38:18","slug":"parliamentary-debate-on-cycling-2nd-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2013\/08\/parliamentary-debate-on-cycling-2nd-sept\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Debate on Cycling &#8211; 2nd Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cycle_parliament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-965\" alt=\"cycle_parliament\" src=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cycle_parliament.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>On the 2nd September, Parliament will debate the motion: <i> That this house supports the recommendations of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group\u2019s report \u2018Get Britain Cycling\u2019; endorses the target of 10 per cent of all journeys being by bike by 2025, and 25 per cent by 2050; and calls on the Government to show strong political leadership, including an annual Cycle Action Plan and sustained funding for cycling.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In order to get the widest and most positive involvement of Parliament, please consider urging your local MP to attend the debate and to support the motion. You can write to your MP at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writetothem.com\/?writer_email=&amp;writer_name=&amp;pc=&amp;a=westminstermp\" target=\"_blank\">link <\/a>by inputting your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclenation\/CTC will be briefing key MPs on the arguments in support of increased cycling provision and will be using the points detailed in the document <a href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UKCA_MP-Briefing-for-Sept2-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 2nd September, Parliament will debate the motion: That this house supports the recommendations of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group\u2019s report \u2018Get Britain Cycling\u2019; endorses the target of 10 per cent of all journeys being by bike by 2025, and 25 per cent by 2050; and calls on the Government to show strong political&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2013\/08\/parliamentary-debate-on-cycling-2nd-sept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parliamentary Debate on Cycling &#8211; 2nd Sept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigning","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}