Question follow-through · 99053
Housing: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on maintaining continuity of household recycling services in the event of (a) contractor disputes and (b) contract terminatio
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on maintaining continuity of household recycling services in the event of (a) contractor disputes and (b) contract terminatio
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
Defra has published guidance for local authorities on prioritising services in periods of disruption in waste operations which can be found here.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Tree Felling: Licensing
2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for felling licences were refused by the Forestry Commission in each of the last ten years.
Tree Felling: Licensing
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Tree Planting
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Tree Planting
2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Tree Action Plan will support the restoration of ancient woodland, particularly on smaller plantations on ancient woodland sites and harder to restore sites.
Forests: Environment Protection
2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the EIP25 targets for improving plantations on ancient woodland soils align with Forestry England’s 2044 target on PAWS restoration.
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Trapping
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Fly-tipping: Forests
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information her Department and its arm’s-length bodies hold on the number of recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2023–24 that occurred on or adjacent to woodland.
Fly-tipping
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether local authorities are required to record the habitat type affected by each reported fly-tipping incident.