Question follow-through · 12894
Inland Waterways: Ashford
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to clear up water ways in Ashford constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to clear up water ways in Ashford constituency.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government’s Water (Special Measures) Bill will the first important step in enabling wider, transformative change across the water sector, reducing pollution and cleaning up our waterways. The Government has also launched an Independent Commission int...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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