Question follow-through · 48416
Waste Disposal: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Departmental budget will cover the cost of the use of armed forces personnel to support waste collection in Birmingham.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Departmental budget will cover the cost of the use of armed forces personnel to support waste collection in Birmingham.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
This is a local issue and it is right that the response is led by the key public sector partners in Birmingham. We have been clear that if the local leaders on the ground in Birmingham feel tackling these issues goes beyond the resources available to them...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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