Question follow-through · 26634

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional non-statutory guidance his Department is working on with the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 27 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional non-statutory guidance his Department is working on with the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is expected to produce Statutory and Non-Statutory Guidance to support the primary legislation in place under the Environment Act. WRAP was requested to help pull together good practice information to support Defra deliver its set of Non-St...

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