Question follow-through · 24402
Beavers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to permit the controlled release of beavers into the countryside.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to permit the controlled release of beavers into the countryside.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only. Defra will continue to work with Natural England to develop our approach to beaver reintroductions and management in England. Further information on this will be pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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