Question follow-through · 55469
Minamata Convention on Mercury
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposed amendments on dental amalgam use to the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposed amendments on dental amalgam use to the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The next Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention will be taking place on the 3 - 7 November 2025. Working documents and proposals for negotiation at this meeting have not yet been published but will be in due course. Officials in Defra will r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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