Does the UK spend £10 or £1.50 per head on cycling? Tories and Labour at loggerheads over figures

I'm as concerned about how well the money is spent as I am about how much there is per head. It's frustrating how frequently councils spend money putting random, unlinked, stretches of cycle path on quiet side streets. Can it really be that hard to have switched on cyclists involved in the planning - directing funds where they're needed rather than where schemes are easily implemented.

Where I ride zero is spent on cycling. It's all a big lie.

"Ban cycling, just watch the "accident" numbers go down as well..."

"accident" = collision

Am I the only one reading this windering how a road is made "cycle proof" and what that entails ?  Transverse mounted cattle grids ?  ( "our commitment that every mile of new road built by Highways England must be cycle-proof.” )  Last I checked if you <something> proof an item you protect it from the <something> . .  . Rain proof = protected from rain.... Bomb proof=Protected from bombs,....  so how does a road become "cycle proof" ??

Is Clare Perry's statement spin or deceit? £2 - £6 - £10 - oh, fantastic, up, up, and away. Until you realise that that is not a trajectory.

£6 'now' might be correct, including London - thanks to Boris Johnson and no thanks to the government.

£10 is verging on dishonest, because it's saying 'if we only include the places that get the most cycle funding, funnily enough the figure per head comes out higher than if we included everywhere.'

After the spending review by Osborne, CTC calculated that future spending in England, excluding London, is to be £1.39 per head. If it's not dishonest, it's certainly misleading to fail to mention the spending you've announced for next year, simply because it's pathetic, and makes you look bad - and look as though you've betrayed your election promise of £10.

Where I live they're spending £0 per head. There is a cyle lane in the nearest town to me. On a path. Covered in dogshit. Never maintained. Ironically it runs from the centre of town to KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Frankie and Bennys. Obviously been put there for all the local chavs to bomb along on their mountain bikes to get dinner. I wish I was joking but it literally is the only cycle path in the area. The road it is next to is a 40mph limit, guess how many people stick to it? Unless they're queing to get into KFC etc. of course. So no-one wants to use their bikes on it unless you're confident in (speeding) traffic. I'm just resigned to the fact that I have to risk my life everyday to get into work, or sit in a car. Unless you live in a city or large town, you're on your own. I also realise that because I live in a small village there never will be infrastructure for cycling on the local roads, so what needs to be done is if we can't have cycle lanes (fair enough), then spend our share of the money on educating new drivers and maybe hard-hitting ad campaigns aimed existing drivers being aware of cyclists on the road. Simple. I won't hold my breath with this government though, horrible, backtracking liars.