Question follow-through · 55619
Biodiversity: South Northamptonshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect local biodiversity in South Northamptonshire.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 7 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 steps he is taking to protect local biodiversity in South Northamptonshire.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 2025
Answer published
Work is ongoing in South Northamptonshire to protect biodiversity. The constituency has a number of protected areas that provide for a host of notable habitats and species, from the ancient woodlands of the Whittlewood Forest Site of Special Scientific In...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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