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Active Travel in Wales

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Meeting: 25/02/2026 - Plenary (Item 10)

Debate on the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee report: Active Travel in Wales

NDM9153 Mark Isherwood (North Wales)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the report of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee on Active Travel in Wales which was laid in the Table Office on 18 December 2025.

Note: The response from the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 16 February 2026.

Minutes:

The item started at 15.31 

NDM9153 Mark Isherwood (North Wales) 

To propose that the Senedd: 

Notes the report of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee on Active Travel in Wales which was laid in the Table Office on 18 December 2025. 

Note: The response from the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 16 February 2026. 

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

Meeting: 12/02/2026 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2.5)

2.5 Active Travel in Wales: Welsh Government response to Committee's report

Supporting documents:

Meeting: 06/11/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 5)

5 Active Travel in Wales: consideration of draft report

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee agreed the report.

Meeting: 02/10/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 8)

8 Active Travel in Wales: consideration of draft report

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

8.1 The Committee discussed the report and agreed to return to consider a second iteration at a future meeting.

Meeting: 05/06/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)

2 Letter from Andrew Slade, Director General, Economy, Energy and Transport - Welsh Government to the Chair regarding the Committee's Active Travel in Wales inquiry

Supporting documents:

Meeting: 05/06/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 5)

Active Travel in Wales: consideration of evidence

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee discussed the evidence received.

Meeting: 05/06/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 3)

3 Active Travel in Wales: evidence session with the Welsh Government

Andrew Slade, Director General Economy, Energy and Transport
Peter McDonald, Director Economic Infrastructure
Natalie Grohmann - Head of Active Travel Policy


Research brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee received evidence from senior Welsh Government

officials.

Meeting: 14/05/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 5)

Active Travel in Wales: update from the Committee's visit to Slovenia

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee received an update from the Chair and clerk on the visit to Slovenia.

Meeting: 08/05/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 1.)

Active Travel in Wales: External Committee Visit

The Committee will be visiting Ljubljana, Slovenia to inform its inquiry on Active Travel in Wales between 7-9 May 2025.

Meeting: 06/02/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 4)

Active Travel: evidence session with organisations representing disabled people

Kat Watkins, Access to Politics Project Officer – Disability Wales 

Andrea Gordon, External Affairs Manager - Guide Dogs Cymru

Kirsty James, Policy and Campaigns Officer (Wales) - RNIB Cymru 

 

 

UCL Guide Dogs - Designing for Inclusion full report (PDF 2.85mb)

 

Guide Dogs summary and recommendations (PDF 7.24mb)

Minutes:

4.1 The Committee received evidence from representatives from Guide Dogs Cymru, Disability Wales, and RNIB Cymru.

Meeting: 06/02/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 6)

Active Travel: consideration of evidence

Minutes:

6.1 The Committee considered the evidence received during both of the sessions.

Meeting: 06/02/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 3)

3 Active Travel: evidence session with Transport for Wales

James Price, Chief Executive
Geoff Ogden, Chief Transport Planning and Development Officer

 

Research brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee received evidence from senior representatives of Transport for Wales.

Meeting: 22/01/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 5)

Active Travel: consideration of evidence

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence received in the session.

Meeting: 22/01/2025 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 3)

3 Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)

Kaarina Ruta

Matt Price

Kyle Phillips

John Forsey

Dylan Llewellyn Jones


Research brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee received evidence from the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) and local authority representatives.

Meeting: 04/12/2024 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 4)

Active Travel: consideration of evidence

Minutes:

4.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.

Meeting: 04/12/2024 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)

2 Active Travel: evidence session with a representative of the Active Travel Board, Living Streets and Sustrans Cymru

Rhiannon Letman-Wade, Deputy Chair - Active Travel Board

Ruth Billingham, Head of Campaigns and Public Affairs - Living Streets 

Stephen Cunnah, Policy and External Affairs Manager – Sustrans Cymru


Research brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

2.1 The Committee received evidence from representatives of the Active Travel Board, Living Streets and Sustrans Cymru.

Meeting: 17/10/2024 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 7)

7 Audit Wales: Active Travel

Paper 3 – Audit Wales report

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

7.1 The Committee noted the report and agreed to related work from the Committee.

 

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