Question follow-through · 26873
Nature Conservation: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to review the maximum penalties for committing wildlife offences.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to review the maximum penalties for committing wildlife offences.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
Defra has no current plans to review the maximum penalties for committing wildlife offences.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Water: Standards
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to improve the water quality in blue spaces used recreationally for activities such as paddle boarding, canoeing and kayaking.
Inland Waterways: Standards
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Water Reform White Paper will include consideration for linking better access to blue spaces with improving their water quality.
Inland Waterways: Standards
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken within the last 5 years to assess the compliance of water companies and the Environment Agency against their obligations under the Water and Sewerag