Question follow-through · 29795
Moorland and Peatlands: Controlled Burning
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued on the circumstances in which heather burning can be used to manage (a) moorland and (b) peatland.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued on the circumstances in which heather burning can be used to manage (a) moorland and (b) peatland.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
Defra and Natural England are currently consulting with stakeholders to develop a refreshed Heather and Grass Management Code to replace the Heather and Grass Burning Code, published in 2007. The code will detail good practice on planning where to burn an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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