Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Agnew Review - Access to the Outdoors Commission, which was commissioned in January 2021, will be released.

The Access to the Outdoors Commission was a cross-Government process designed to inform the Spending Review on how to increase access to green spaces. There are no plans to release the review in a consolidated way. Rather the results of the review are now incorporated in the Spending Review which is providing more than £30 million to improve public access to green spaces in support of health, wellbeing, and the environment.

The Government also announced it is investing £9m to level up urban green spaces across the UK through the Levelling Up Parks Fund. Grants will be given to, and administered by, local authorities, to deliver new green spaces in over 100 of the neighbourhoods most deprived of green space.

Defra continues to work collaboratively with other Government departments to seek opportunities to continue to improve access to the outdoors and engagement with nature.