WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 49286

Rivers: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the condition of chalk streams in Norfolk.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
1 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Environment and energy

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the condition of chalk streams in Norfolk.

  2. 1 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to the protection and restoration of our cherished chalk streams. Recent investment has enabled a comprehensive assessment of chalk streams in Norfolk and additional monitoring. Of the 11 chalk waterbodies in Norfolk, the major...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Drinking Water: Lead

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on levels on lead in tap water exceeding safe limits in (a) England, (b) Norfolk and (c) South West Norfolk constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Animal Housing: Finance

1 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to farmers for laying hens.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Poultry: Animal Housing

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department is providing to farmers of broiler hens to (a) replace and upgrade housing to help improve animal health and welfare and (b) help improve the control of pol

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Internal Drainage Boards

21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support councils who pay the Internal Drainage Board levy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Flood Control: Flood Control: Norfolk

21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to mitigate the costs to (a) local councils and (b) landowners of internal drainage boards; and what steps he is taking to ensure that (i) South West Norfolk an

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Internal Drainage Boards: Finance

21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to secure additional funding for Internal Drainage Boards in (a) England, (b) Norfolk and (c) South West Norfolk constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Avian Influenza: Disease Control

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Avian Influenza Prevention Zone housing measures lifted, published on 12 May 2025, when the General Licence 45 for gamebird re

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food: Production

3 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will appoint an expert in animal welfare to the Food Strategy board.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Agriculture: Livestock

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of industrial livestock farming on the UK's capacity to reach its net zero targets.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Agriculture: Livestock

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the (a) expansion of existing and (b) building of new industrial livestock fa

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food Strategy Advisory Board: Animal Welfare

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of appointing an animal welfare expert to the Food Strategy board.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste: Crime

1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle waste crime.