Question follow-through · 52915
Landfill: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) mitigate pollution from historic landfills and (b) facilitate the remediation of landfill sites in Knowsley constituency.
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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, what steps his Department is taking to (a) mitigate pollution from historic landfills and (b) facilitate the remediation of landfill sites in Knowsley constituency.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
Responsibility typically lies with the landowner to maintain systems that prevent pollution. Under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, local authorities are primarily responsible for managing contaminated land, including designating historic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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