Question follow-through · 4464
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure regulators sponsored by his Department have sufficient resources for enforcement work.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure regulators sponsored by his Department have sufficient resources for enforcement work.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
The department recognises the vital role that regulators play in the context of enforcement. The enforcement powers of bodies such as Ofwat and the Environment Agency are key to ensuring companies meet their obligations across the water and waste sectors ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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