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(2) what the total level of funding has been for agreements under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme providing permissive public access since the scheme's inception.
[156685]
Angela Smith:
(2) what the total level of funding has been for agreements under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme providing permissive public access since the scheme's inception.
[156685]
Angela Smith:
The Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) started in 1991 and closed to new applications in 2004. Agreements lasted for 10 years and the last of these are due to expire in September 2014. Data is not held centrally for agreements that have expired, so it is not possible to provide the total amount of permissive access since 1991. The closest data available is for agreements providing permissive access in 2005.
In 2005 there were 710 CSS agreements with permissive access. The total annual permissive access payments under these agreements is estimated at £11,165,230 over the 10 year period of the agreements1. 241 of these agreements are still running in 2013. This figure does not include one-off capital payments such as gates, stiles and benches.
| CSS
access
option | Number
of live agreements with access
option | Total
hectares/length |
| Open
access | 183 | 1,747
hectares |
| Permissive
footpaths | 464 | 599,115
metres |
| Permissive
bridleways | 179 | 513,502
metres |
| Paths
for
disabled | 23 | 43,081
metres |
Individual agreements can have more than one permissive access option. The total number of live agreements with access options will therefore add up to more than 710.1 Estimate may not take account of changes resulting from later payment reviews, which cannot easily be calculated from historical data.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how much funding for agreements providing permissive public access has been provided under the Environmental Stewardship Scheme since the scheme's inception;
[156683]
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how much funding for agreements providing permissive public access has been provided under the Environmental Stewardship Scheme since the scheme's inception;
[156683]
Environmental Stewardship started in 2005. From 2006, the Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) element of the scheme offered annual payments for permissive access. These were withdrawn for new HLS agreements from 1 December 2010, as part of spending review 2010 decisions, although payments continue for agreements set up before this date until their expiry. At present there are 1,292 HLS permissive access agreements.
The total cost of annual payments under these agreements is estimated at £22,561,632, over the ten year period of the agreements1. This does not include payments for one-off capital items such as gates, stiles and benches.
Only the “open access” option is measured and paid in hectares; all others are linear and paid in metres.
| HLS
access
option | Number
of live agreements with access
option | Total
hectares/length |
| Open
access | 290 | 4,067
hectares |
| Permissive
paths | 886 | 1,433,123
metres |
| Permissive
bridleways | 334 | 1,220,163
metres |
| Linear
access for people with reduced
mobility | 52 | 52,827
metres |
| Upgrading
access for
cycles/horses | 20 | 31,352
metres |
| Upgrading
access for people with reduced
mobility | 8 | 3,756
metres |
Individual HLS agreements can have more than one permissive access option. The total number of live agreements with access options will therefore add up to more than 1,292.1 Estimate will change over time as agreements are amended, terminated early etc.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether Natural England has been required to reduce its budget for 2010-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether Natural England has been required to reduce its budget for 2010-11.