Question follow-through · 11197
Butterflies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of swallowtail butterfly numbers in (a) North Norfolk constituency and (b) England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of swallowtail butterfly numbers in (a) North Norfolk constituency and (b) England.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
The swallowtail is a nationally rare butterfly and is restricted as a breeding species to the Norfolk Broads. The species was categorised as Vulnerable in the 2022 International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Regional Red List for Great Bri...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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