Question follow-through · 60365
Water Abstraction: Seas and Oceans
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce regulatory limits on the volume of water extracted out at sea, following the 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce regulatory limits on the volume of water extracted out at sea, following the 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to protecting the natural environment and will consider any relevant issues and options as they arise.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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