A minister who owns a vast country estate is facing accusations that he gave Parliament “false information” over lobbying by landowners to deny the public access to thousands of miles of country walks.
Environment minister Richard Benyon owns the 14,000-acre Englefield estate in Berkshire and is one of the richest parliamentarians, worth £130m, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
The government decided earlier this year to impose a 2031 deadline for formally registering unrecorded public footpaths through private land, known as rights of way.
