Question follow-through · 90425
Rivers: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect chalk streams.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect chalk streams.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
In June 2025 the Environment Agency updated its National Framework for water resources, setting out the importance of chalk streams and how we will include their needs in all water resources planning and decision making. The Government is prioritising cha...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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