Question follow-through · 83666
Countryside: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will take steps to publish a green paper to expand access to nature.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will take steps to publish a green paper to expand access to nature.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to taking action to improve access to nature and recognises the importance of this issue. We are already taking steps to expand public access to nature, for example through our commitment to creating nine new river walks and th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Recreation Spaces
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Public Footpaths
3 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of opening paths on disused railway lines to increase public access to nature.