Question follow-through · 96263
Waste: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Environment and Climate Change Committee's recommendations published in its policy letter to her, dated 28 October 2025, on Waste Crime.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Environment and Climate Change Committee's recommendations published in its policy letter to her, dated 28 October 2025, on Waste Crime.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department is considering the Environment and Climate Change Committee's recommendations on waste crime and will respond in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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