Britain’s leading motoring and cycling bodies have criticised the Government for refusing to create an annual budget for cycle provision, ignoring the recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry.

Robert Goodwill, the Cycling Minster, has come under fire from the AA and British Cycling for effectively ruling out any pledge in the 2015 Conservative manifesto to create a dedicated cycling budget.

David Cameron has said he wanted to launch a “cycling revolution” on British streets, to reduce congestion and boost public health.

The Get Britain Cycling inquiry last year found he would need to create a fixed annual cycling budget of £10 per head of population — about £600 million or 4 per cent of the transport budget — to achieve this.

Yet the Government has spent