Question follow-through · 2621
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) Anglian Water and (b) all water companies in England in (i) identifying and (ii) removing barriers that prevent the connectivity
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 20 Sept 2024 · 52 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) Anglian Water and (b) all water companies in England in (i) identifying and (ii) removing barriers that prevent the connectivity
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises the need for well-connected surface waters, so that water can be moved to where it is most needed. Water companies, including Anglian Water, have focussed their resilience improvements on water grids and transfers, a number of wh...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Animal Welfare: Fireworks
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30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of sewage discharges into waterways there have been in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency in the last 12 months.
Fly-tipping
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Fly-tipping: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of instances of fly tipping in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency in each year since 2010.
Water Companies: Directors
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7 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help people adapt their homes to mitigate against the risk of flooding.
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9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the damage caused by the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle to trees in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.
Shellfish: Sales
11 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to end the sale of live decapod crustaceans.