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Public Access to Nature

Proceeding contribution from Gareth Thomas (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 18 May 2023. It occurred during Backbench debate on Public Access to Nature.

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady for initiating the debate and for allowing me to intervene. I wonder if her interest in nature extends to water and blue spaces. On the rare occasions when parliamentary duties and childcare allow, I seek joy from canoeing, but there is an unfettered right of access to only 7% of appropriate inland waterways in the UK. Voluntary access arrangements are clearly not working in any significant way. Does she agree that, at a minimum, the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 needs to be extended to cover water as well as land?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
732 c984 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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