Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made by the Access to the Outdoors Commission, also known as the Agnew Review, chaired by Lord Agnew and commissioned by his Department; when the Agnes Review plans to publish its findings; and what steps the Government plans to take to deliver the quantum shift in public access to nature that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer tasked the Review with achieving.

The pandemic has made the benefits of spending time outdoors in nature clearer than ever. The Spending Review is providing more than £30 million to improve public access to green spaces in support of health, wellbeing and the environment, including an expanded network of green routes for different users. In addition, SR21 commits £9 million to the new Levelling Up Parks Fund, creating over 100 new parks across the UK to improve access to parks in urban areas that are deprived of green space.