Question follow-through · 35081
Rivers: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect chalk streams.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect chalk streams.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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