Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2017 to Question 106302, what funding he plans to allocate to national trails for 2018-19; and how much funding has been allocated to maintain the Pennine Way.

Natural England (NE) has not yet finalised the allocation of funding for national trails for 2018/19.

NE has recently written to each of the national trail partnerships making an interim offer of 50 percent of the funding made to each of the national trails in 2017/18. The offer is an advance contribution towards the costs the partnerships would incur in 2018/19 in the absence of NE currently being able to confirm its overall funding position for 2018/19. NE’s interim offer for the Pennine Way in 2018/19 totals £99,626.50.