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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Thames Path National Trail features alternate routes along both banks of the Thames in London; and whether it is possible for a National Trail to have alternate or dual routes.

The Thames Path provides a route on both the north and south banks of the river in Central London in order to facilitate the viewing or visiting attractions along the Thames Embankment. Such ‘braided’ routes may be created where there is of particular recreational benefit or where landscapes or features of interest which otherwise may be missed or, on Trails open to horse riders and cyclists, where the preferred route is unsuitable for, or unavailable to them.