Question follow-through · 52944
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted to the Environment Agency on Markyate Sewage Works of 28 March 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted to the Environment Agency on Markyate Sewage Works of 28 March 2025.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
A reply to the hon. Member is being prepared by the Environment Agency and will be issued as soon as possible.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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