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Rights of Way: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 on the rights of disabled people to access the outdoors.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
5 Dec 2025
Target answer date
9 Dec 2025
Answer
16 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 on the rights of disabled people to access the outdoors.

  2. 9 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is supportive of the provision within section 147ZA of the 1980 Act that enables an authority to work with landowners and relevant parties to replace or improve existing structures so that they can be used more easily by individuals that m...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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