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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the ALB-Natural England-England Coastal Path Scheme 20/21 Grant.

Natural England oversaw a capital grant scheme in 2020-21 for the establishment of the then England Coast Path (now King Charles III England Coast Path) by local highway authorities which will make the King Charles III England Coast Path the longest waymarked and maintained coastal walking route in the world at 2,700 miles long when complete. The grant scheme is still ongoing and over 900 miles is now open to the public.