§ Mr. Goldingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will seek powers to oblige highway authorities to signpost all paths at their junctions with metalled roads.
§ Mr. Eldon GriffithsNo. Highway authorities are already obliged by Section 27 of the Countryside Act, 1968, to provide signposts at every point where a footpath leaves a metalled road except where the local parish authority agrees they are unnecessary.