PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Footpaths: Coastal Areas (25 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the funding required to complete the Coastal Path around England by the target date of 2020; and what support her Department is offering to Natural England to achieve that target.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Government has announced Defra’s capital allocation for the next five years, and funding to complete the coastal path around England by 2020 will be protected. When complete, the path will be one of longest coastal walking routes in the world at around 2,700 miles in length.

We will publish the detailed allocation of funding in the Department’s Main Estimate early next year.

Answered by:
Rory Stewart (Independent)
30 November 2015