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Horticulture: Peat

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44673 on Horticulture: Peat, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken to ban sales of horticultur

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
2 May 2025
Target answer date
7 May 2025
Answer
13 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44673 on Horticulture: Peat, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken to ban sales of horticultur

  2. 7 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 May 2025

    Answer published

    We have not undertaken a separate assessment, but will publish the GMM stats in due course.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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