Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 89178

Countryside: Walking

Tabled: 10 November 2025

Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal Democrat — Tiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) Health and Safety Executive regulations on the interaction between walkers and cattle and (b) how those regulations are communicated to (i) farmers a

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

Health and safety legislation places a duty on farmers to manage the risk to the public from cattle as far as it is reasonable to do so. The nature of modern health and safety legislation is largely goalsetting, rather than prescriptive. This is important...

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