Question follow-through · 85821
Controlled Burning
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the ongoing Natural Environment Research Council study on the role of prescribed burns in re
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the ongoing Natural Environment Research Council study on the role of prescribed burns in re
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
Defra will consider the outcomes of this study when published, as with all new evidence in this area.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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