Question follow-through · 57544
River Itchen and River Test: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on the chalk stream recovery pack for the river Test and Itchen.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on the chalk stream recovery pack for the river Test and Itchen.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 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 wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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