Question follow-through · 57370
Rivers: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the ecological vulnerability of chalk stream habitats; and whether his Department plans to develop
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the ecological vulnerability of chalk stream habitats; and whether his Department plans to develop
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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