Question follow-through · 10187
Peat: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislation to end retail sales of horticultural peat.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislation to end retail sales of horticultural peat.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the response given to PQ 4272 on 12 September 2024.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Written question 30228
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