Question follow-through · 53141
Lead: Drinking Water and Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent industrial lead entering (a) drinking water and (b) the food chain.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent industrial lead entering (a) drinking water and (b) the food chain.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government is addressing the historic pollution of our rivers and estuaries by abandoned metal mines through a collaborative partnership between Defra, the Environment Agency, and the Mining Remediation Authority under the Water and Abandoned Metal M...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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