Question follow-through · 61094
Noise: Nuisance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the remedies available to people who are experiencing noise disturbances.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the remedies available to people who are experiencing noise disturbances.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for investigating noise disturbances brought to their attention under Section 79 of the Environmental Protection Act, 1990. If they agree that a statutory nuisance is happening, has happened or will happen in the future, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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