Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will set a date for commencement of those provisions of the Deregulation Act 2015 which relate to public rights of way.
The Stakeholder Working Group, which developed the recommendations for reform, produced a finely balanced set of proposals. We plan to implement the package in the first half of 2019, subject to Parliamentary time.