Question follow-through · 28249
Marine Protected Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to key recommendation 3 of the Office for Environmental Protection’s report entitled Progress in improving the natural environment in England 2023 to 2024, published on
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Public Sector: Procurement · 5 Feb 2025
- Horticulture · 5 Feb 2025
- Food: Health · 5 Feb 2025
- Food · 5 Feb 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to key recommendation 3 of the Office for Environmental Protection’s report entitled Progress in improving the natural environment in England 2023 to 2024, published on
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave to the hon. Member for Brent West on 10 December 2024 and 6 January 2025, PQs 17500 and 20559.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Public Sector: Procurement
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has plans to expand the Government Buying Standards across the wider public sector.
Horticulture
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the horticulture sector.
Food: Health
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce mandatory reporting by food and beverage companies on nutrition, health and sustainability metrics.
Food
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to establish a cross-government working group on food.
Food
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce a new Food Bill for England in this Parliament.
Food: Labelling
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish the outcomes of his Departments consultation entitled Fairer Food Labelling, which closed in May 2024.
Furs: Trade
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Animal Welfare Committee’s review of responsible sourcing of fur will be published before second reading of the Fur (Import and Sale) Bill on 13 June 2025.
Furs: Trade
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled the Fur Market in Great Britain, published on 31 May 2021, after the Animal Welfare Committee publishes
Animal Experiments: Dogs
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing on dogs in the last five years.
Animal Experiments: Dogs
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
Historic England: Crime and Disorder Act 1998
26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making Historic England a named body for the purposes of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Agriculture: Basic Income
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Joanna Poulton, Jak Richardson, Kathleen Pollitt and Cleo Goodman entitled Sowing the Seed