Question follow-through · 13212
Water: Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to update its policy guidance on metal mine pollution to reflect the primary risk from sediment contamination in river channels and floodplains.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to update its policy guidance on metal mine pollution to reflect the primary risk from sediment contamination in river channels and floodplains.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
There is no specific policy guidance on metal mine pollution. The Environment Agency (EA) considers the primary risk from abandoned metal mines to be pollution of rivers and estuaries, with around 1,500km of rivers polluted by metals. The government has a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage (a) vets and (b) other people who interact with farmers to be trained on signposting farmers to health and support services.
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Animals: Disease Control
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Agriculture: Finance
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Farmers: Costs
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Agriculture: Finance
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