Question follow-through · 47130
Bees: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42062 on Bees: Conservation, whether he has received a request from the Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture for mutual assistance
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42062 on Bees: Conservation, whether he has received a request from the Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture for mutual assistance
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
It is confirmed that no request from the Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture for mutual assistance with bee inspecting has been received by APHA’s National Bee Unit.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Rural Areas: Young People
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EU Trade: South America
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Hornets: Northern Ireland
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Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination
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Farming Profitability Review: Northern Ireland
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Blue Tongue Disease: Northern Ireland
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Periwinkles: Fisheries
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending the closed season for periwinkle gathering in inter-tidal areas in England.