So what does the Budget do to boost to cycling?

one of the main things that dissuades people from cycling is cars. so i think there's mileage in giving away a bike for every car scrapped. redress the balance. okay, people might not use them but at least the number of cars is going down, and the number of bikes going up...

I think bikes are cheap enough already. Even if government gave away a bike with every scrapped car it still wouldn't dissuade motorists from not choosing to use a car. I believe that the things that stop people from cycling are; safety, hills, rubbish weather, kids, getting sweaty.
Maybe a incentive would be to give a discount on technical clothing and baby carriers?

Indeed, but the majority of the cars bought here aren't made here either - they're imports. The vast majority of British car production is for export - so this scheme will have no direct effect on those British jobs.

Nor is it likely to be insurance against car makers not axing jobs in the UK, because nearly every other European country has a car scrapage scheme too.

If people don't want to buy new cars this is unlikely to make much difference - it probably amounts to a few months depreciation; and equally the majority of people who buy new cars don't tend to be driving 10 year old motors either - they drive much newer cars.

A nice idea but the idea is simply to boost production and keep nearly 1million people employed directly in the new car manufacture and retail sector in work. I would love to see cycling become cheaper but how many major bike brands are based and manufactured in the uk?