Clause 62 - Ending of certain existing unrecorded public rights of way
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill
2:15 pm
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
I will give way in a second, but I just want to clarify something. I have heard from various hon. Members that they would like me to publish the legal advice and I am happy to publish the summary of that advice. I listened to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood very carefully. They were delivered very clearly, there was little room for misinterpretation of what he said, and I am grateful to him for that. If he can produce counter legal advice, once he has the chance to consider what I can publish, I shall certainly consider it. I give him that reassurance. I shall consider what we are doing in the legislation in the context of anything that he can produce.