Question follow-through · 115016
Public Footpaths: Coastal Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect the South West Coast Path against storm damage.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect the South West Coast Path against storm damage.
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
The South West Coast Path (SWCP) is a 630 mile National Trail around the SW peninsula. As such it follows open and unprotected coast for much of its length, sections of which due to their geological make up are susceptible to coastal erosion. This has alw...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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