Question follow-through · 50017
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
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- Answering body
- 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
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
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
We have not undertaken a separate assessment, but will publish the GMM stats in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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