Agri-environment Schemes: Permissive Access Debate
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
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Agri-environment Schemes: Permissive Access
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Lord Benyon (Con)
The noble Baroness is absolutely right: there is an imperative, which has been particularly noticed during the Covid lockdown periods, when more people sought access to our countryside. We want to see that continue and be encouraged. That is why, in the schemes that we are bringing forward under environmental land management, there will be a very clear access commitment, backed by funding.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GP)
My Lords, will the Government guarantee specific funding for farmers for disabled access through the environmental land management scheme?
Lord Benyon (Con)
Access for disabled people to the countryside will be funded under these schemes. Funding could be available for, for example, improving footpath surfaces, gates and access to footpaths. We are looking at this in the tests and trials that we are carrying out at the moment.