Written Question
Monday 16th July 2018
Asked by:
Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to promote use of National Trails.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
Since 2013 the promotion of national trails and the ‘acorn’ (registered trademark) has been carried out by Walk Unlimited, a social enterprise, which champions the network through its website www.nationaltrail.co.uk. It works with the individual trail partnerships who remain responsible for providing information on their trail to the national site and for local promotion. Natural England also encourages individual trail partnerships and the emerging England Coast Path partners to consider promotion of both the individual trails and stretches of those trails and the promotion of the family of national trails.
Written Question
Monday 16th July 2018
Asked by:
Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of people who use National Trails every year.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The most recent estimate from 2013 is that at least 70 million visits are made each year to places passed through by a national trail.
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