Question follow-through · 36008
Livestock: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of intensive animal farming on (a) water ways and (b) agricultural land.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of intensive animal farming on (a) water ways and (b) agricultural land.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
Agriculture and rural land management is one of the greatest pressures on the water environment, impacting 45% of water bodies in England. We recognise intensive farming is not without risk. Intensive pig and poultry farms above specified size thresholds ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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