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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to bring before Parliament current proposals by the Lake District National Park Authority to sell land in the Lake District.

National park authorities are independent bodies, provided with their powers to dispose of land under the 1972 Local Government Act. Government has no powers to direct a national park authority to dispose or not to dispose of land or a particular piece of land and has no plans to bring before Parliament the Lake District National Park Authority proposals for land sale.