Question follow-through · 85822
Hen Harriers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of spending by (a) her Department and (b) Natural England on (i) the upland Brood Management Scheme and (ii) the Southern Reintroduction project;
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 29 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 the cost to the public purse was of spending by (a) her Department and (b) Natural England on (i) the upland Brood Management Scheme and (ii) the Southern Reintroduction project;
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
These programmes were created as part of the Joint Action Plan for the Recovery of the English Hen Harrier Population, put in place in 2016. The Hen Harrier brood management trial and the Southern Reintroduction project were funded by Defra and led by Nat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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