§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps the Government and the Countryside Commission are taking to promote more long-distance footpaths; and whether he has received any requests to designate the Two Moors' Way, the Icknield Way, the Thames Walk, the South Downs' extension, the Ribble Way, the Cotswold Way and the south west extension to the Ridgeway as long-distance footpaths.
§ Mr. WaldegraveResponsibility for promotion of long distance footpaths rests with the Countryside Commission. No proposals to designate the routes specified have been submitted to my right hon. Friend under section 51 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, but I have received a copy of the Ramblers Association's recent submission to the commission on this matter.