Question follow-through · 44255
Recreation Spaces: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving access to parks and green spaces.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving access to parks and green spaces.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of access to nature for health and wellbeing and is committed to ensuring it is safe, inclusive and appropriate. We are delivering on our ambitious manifesto commitments to create nine new national river walks and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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