Question follow-through · 56540

Droughts: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to engage with local communities impacted by drought.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 2 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 4 Jun 2025
Answer: 10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to engage with local communities impacted by drought.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) has been working to ensure that United Utilities follows its drought plan, as agreed by Defra Secretary of State, including its communications with the public / customers and ensuring the company engaged with local partners via...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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