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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with Exmoor National Park Authority on expanding the boundaries of the National Park to include the Quantocks and other areas.

Neither Defra nor Natural England, the body with statutory responsibility for national park designation, have held any recent discussions with Exmoor National Park Authority on expanding the boundaries of Exmoor National Park.