Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what powers they intend to give local authorities to alter the status of routes which have in the past been legally recorded on definitive maps of public rights of way as restricted byways with provision for access by horse-drawn and other non-mechanically propelled vehicles.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Government does not plan to introduce any new powers in primary legislation to specifically give local authorities the ability to alter the status of restricted byways or any other type of public right of way.
The legal framework governing public rights of way has been reviewed by a stakeholder working group, which recommended a package of reforms which are now being implemented through provisions included in the Deregulation Act 2015.
Asked by: Lord Temple-Morris (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effect of sanctions on the United Kingdom dairy industry in terms of the loss of exports and their value to the United Kingdom industry.
Answered by Lord De Mauley
Based on past export performance, the sanctions imposed by Russia on the United Kingdom affected an estimated 0.2 per cent of the UK’s total food, feed and drink exports which include £5.8 million worth of exports from our domestic cheese industry.
However, globally, our dairy exports are at record levels, topping £1.4 billion last year, a 51 per cent increase since 2009.