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National Trails UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory purpose for national trails.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory purpose for national trails.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to improving access to nature and is currently considering how best to continue to drive forward our goals in this area. There are no plans to undertake an assessment to consider the merits of introducing a statutory purpose fo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Gardens: Plastics

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Meat: Import Controls

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Thames Water

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Environment Protection: Henley-on-Thames

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Sewage: Waste Disposal

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Inland Waterways: Grants

10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the Environment Agency's grant in aid for navigation infrastructure.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sewage: Henley-on-Thames

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Members: Correspondence

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