Question follow-through · 83186
Water: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to reform processes for the (a) monitoring and (b) management of (i) ponds, (ii) headwater streams and (iii) other small waters.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to reform processes for the (a) monitoring and (b) management of (i) ponds, (ii) headwater streams and (iii) other small waters.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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23 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) has in recent years expanded monitoring of headwater streams through its new Small Streams Network, and an increased number of smaller lakes with the Lake Surveillance Network, part of the Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment P...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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