Question follow-through · 75395
Rural Areas: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, he will list the programmes his Department (a) provides and (b) supports to tackle (i) isolation, (ii) social exclusion and (iii) mental health well-being for rural young people.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 39 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, he will list the programmes his Department (a) provides and (b) supports to tackle (i) isolation, (ii) social exclusion and (iii) mental health well-being for rural young people.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2025
Answer published
In 2025-26, Defra is providing £1.712 million to support local actions that address the needs of rural communities, some of which is used to support actions to tackle rural isolation, social exclusion and the mental health and well-being needs of young pe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dog Fighting
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to tackle illegal dog fighting in the last two years.
EU Trade: South America
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement on food (a) production, (b) supply and (c) security.
Hornets: Northern Ireland
20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help her counterpart in Northern Ireland tackle Asian hornets.
Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the cattle vaccine against bovine tuberculosis undergoing Phase 3 trials by the Animal and Plant Health Agency will be available in Northern Ireland.
Farming Profitability Review: Northern Ireland
4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Farming Profitability Review, which stakeholders in Northern Ireland gave evidence to the Review.
Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination
4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85623 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination, for what reason Northern Ireland was not included in the marketing authorisation.
Blue Tongue Disease: Northern Ireland
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken in response to recent reports of Blue Tongue Disease being detected in Northern Ireland.
Periwinkles: Fisheries
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending the closed season for periwinkle gathering in inter-tidal areas in England.
Veterinary Services: Regulation
23 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward reforms to the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966.
Trout: Fish Farming
13 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what conditions are necessary to import juvenile trout from fish farms in Northern Ireland for stocking purposes in rivers, lakes or fish farms in i) England or ii) Scotland.
Electronic Training Aids: Northern Ireland
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has (a) taken recent steps towards and (b) had discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive on a legislative ban on the sale of aversive training tools for do
Cattle: Pest Control
8 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has been made of the levels of screw worm infection in the UK cattle herd.