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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made on the proposed changes in guidance for public rights of way; and from when she expects the updated version of that guidance will be effective.

Good progress has been made on drafting the various required statutory instruments and guidance, working with the Stakeholder Working Group who developed the recommendations for reform. The group produced a finely balanced package of recommendations and we want to present our work in one go because this is very much a package of recommendations. We hope to bring it forward but I am not in a position to say precisely when.