Question follow-through · 1706
Countryside: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take legislative steps to improve access to nature.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 22 May 2026 · 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
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take legislative steps to improve access to nature.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2026
Answer published
This Government has announced, as part of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025, that we will bring forward an Access to Nature Green Paper to consult on proposals to improve and expand public access to the outdoors. The Green Paper will set out a range...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2026 to Question 123377 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, when her Department plans to place a breakdown of the NO2 programme expenditure
Clean Air Zones
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of 4 March 2026 to Question 115458 on Clean Air Zones, whether she plans to redraft the Clean Air Zone Framework to require compliance with PM2.5 targets.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Lanyards
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its public bodies has spent on lanyards since 4 July 2024; what designs of lanyards have been purchased; and what the cost and num
Clean Air Zones
7 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4274 on Clean Air Zones, whether the new air quality targets in the Environmental Improvement Plan are legal limit values for the purp
Department for Transport: Carbon Emissions
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2026 to Question 18165 on Department for Transport: Carbon Emissions, when the Greening Government Commitments 2025–2030 will be (a) finalised and (b
Biodiversity
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2026 to Question 18773 on Biodiversity, whether it remains her Department's policy that biodiversity net gain applies to most development.