Subject	Predicate	Object
JNmBUdam	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	QqRndtpK
	answer has answering person	Margaret Beckett
	answer text	Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to extend additionalprotection to dry stone walls. [15516]Margaret Beckett: [holding answer 16 November 2001]: We are considering representations that we have received on this subject.However, the primary legislation which provides the enabling powers for the Hedgerow Regulations does not provide powers to protectdry stone walls. The Department supports maintenance and restoration of dry stone walls through agri-environment schemes which arebeing significantly expanded under the England Rural Development Programme. The results of Countryside Survey 2000 suggested thatnet losses of walls had been halted by 1998.
	answer given date	2001-11-28
	answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	written answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has written answer	JNmBUdam
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has answer	JNmBUdam
QqRndtpK	question has answer	JNmBUdam
Margaret Beckett	answering person has answer	JNmBUdam