To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what parts of (a) York and (b) north Yorkshire have been opened to the public under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; and if he will make a statement. (151517)

The former Countryside Agency mapped 748 hectares of open country and registered common land in the administrative area of York city council, equivalent to 2.7 per cent. of the administrative area.

The agency mapped a total of 178,990 hectares in north Yorkshire as open country and common land. That includes 95,060 hectares of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and 44,450 hectares of the North York Moors National Park.