UK Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh | Transport secretary says government’s strategy for active travel could cut GP appointments by millions

Transport is the largest single contributor to the UK’s carbon emissions, and while cycling wasn’t specifically in the Labour manifesto, bar a reference to “active travel” – a catchall term for walking, cycling and wheeling (as wheelchair and mobility aid users do) – Haigh says it will be “utterly essential to developing our national integrated transport strategy”. Almost three-quarters of trips in England are less than five miles.