Question follow-through · 15841
Sky Lanterns
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of banning sky lanterns.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of banning sky lanterns.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
An assessment of sky-lanterns was carried out in 2023.The research examined the risks that sky lanterns, and other items including helium balloons, pose to the environment. The research suggests the risks posed by sky lanterns and helium balloons remain l...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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