Question follow-through · 39981
Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to integrate his planned updates to the (a) Environmental Improvement Plan and (b) Carbon Budget Delivery Plan.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to integrate his planned updates to the (a) Environmental Improvement Plan and (b) Carbon Budget Delivery Plan.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Nature and climate action must be taken together and will underpin the delivery of this Government’s missions, from clean energy to economic growth. Our revised Environmental Improvement Plan will set out the vital role of nature in mitigating and adaptin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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