To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what steps he intends to take to ensure that promotional and development work currently undertaken by the Countryside Commission in Wales is continued and developed following the changes proposed in the Environmental Protection Bill.

The provisions in the Environmental Protection Bill relating to the countryside and conservancy agencies are essentially concerned only with the reorganisation of those bodies. The Countryside Council for Wales will continue to have the same statutory functions as the Countryside Commission. It will be for the council to develop its policies within that framework.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what steps he intends to take to ensure that the Countryside Commission's target of opening up all rights of way in Wales is achieved by the year 2000; following the restructuring of conservation and countryside bodies.

This will be a matter for the Countryside Council for Wales.