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Cycling: Women

Commons · Question 30365 · Tabled 10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 18 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to tackle (a) harassment and (b) intimidation of women while cycling.

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 18 Feb 2025

Everyone should feel safe cycling and harassment and intimidation of women cycling is totally unacceptable. Public sexual harassment is a crime that often leaves victims, who are disproportionately likely to be women, feeling very unsafe. That is why tack...