Clause 2 - General Purpose
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill
4:00 pm
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
I am willing to accept that point. I look back with fondness to being party, five weeks ago, to the opening up of access to the North Yorkshire moors, which happened on the same day that 2,000 square miles was given open access. That was a great achievement of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act. These are relatively early days, but the substantive point remains.