Horticulture: Peat

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Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tabled

14 Jul 2025

Target answer date

16 Jul 2025

Answer

22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1. 14 Jul 2025

   Question tabled

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Welsh government on the cessation of the sale of horticultural peat.

2. 16 Jul 2025

   Target answer date

   Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

3. 22 Jul 2025

   Answer published

   The Secretary of State discussed this matter with Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies MS, at the Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on 23 June.

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.