Question follow-through · 52331
Environment Protection: Public Bodies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there is a consolidated public list of each (a) public authority and (b) private body with public functions that is subject to the Environmental Information Regulations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there is a consolidated public list of each (a) public authority and (b) private body with public functions that is subject to the Environmental Information Regulations.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
No. There is no consolidated, public list of relevant bodies. Bodies are made subject to the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) through the definition in regulation 2(2), rather than by designation. The Information Commissioner has jurisdict...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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