Question follow-through · 22444
Wetlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to mark World Wetlands Day in 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 2 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
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to mark World Wetlands Day in 2025.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The theme for World Wetlands Day 2025 is ‘Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future’ and Defra plans to mark World Wetlands Day. In 2021 the UK co-sponsored the United Nations Resolution to designate 2 February as World Wetlands Day and we have since unde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the support provided by the Rural Payments Agency to farmers in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b) Staffordshire.
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24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) leadership and (b) management of the Rural Payments Agency.
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25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) industry, (b) NGOs and (c) other stakeholders on the future of UK REACH.
Recycling: Skilled Workers
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