Question follow-through · 118631
Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a timeline for the UK and Welsh Governments to jointly publish the 2026 Transition Plan, accompanied by interim strategic guidance for the current regulators, and t
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Environment Protection: National Security · 10 Mar 2026
- Water: Regulation · 11 Mar 2026
- Rivers: Pollution Control · 16 Mar 2026
- Animal Welfare · 17 Mar 2026
- Water Companies: Accountability · 24 Mar 2026
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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
6 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a timeline for the UK and Welsh Governments to jointly publish the 2026 Transition Plan, accompanied by interim strategic guidance for the current regulators, and t
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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11 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Transition Plan is part of our plan to reform the sector and will be published in due course. It will describe the transitional arrangements to enable the stable, successful delivery of reforms, and will be accompanied by a new Strategic Policy Statem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Environment Protection: National Security
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is she taking as a result of HM Governments report titled Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security, published on 20 January 2026.
Water: Regulation
11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the water regulator replacing Ofwat will have prosecution powers.
Rivers: Pollution Control
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on pollutant reduction within river improvement programmes of the report by the UK Centre for Ecology and
Animal Welfare
17 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to introduce a formalised interdepartmental framework to help prevent gaps in planning between her Department and the Home Office on issues with potential
Water Companies: Accountability
24 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her department has had with Ofwat, the Environment Agency, and Natural England regarding the application of the duty of candour to water companies in relation to the d
Biodiversity: Public Consultation
20 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for publishing her Department's full response to the Biodiversity Net Gain consultation.
Members: Correspondence
15 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the letter of 7 March 2026 from the Hon. Member for Henley and Thame and the Hon. Member for Earley and Woodley on the invitation to visit the flood affect
Water: Standards
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Pursuant to the answer provided on the 2nd March to question 115773, to provide an update on the evidence review to consider the environmental and public health implications of a chang
Water: Standards
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer provided on the 9th December to question 97007, if she can outline the (a) local and (b) national stakeholders who she will engage with during the initial scopin
Water: Standards
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in response to the hon, Member for Twickenham during oral
Biodiversity
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to implement exemptions of sites below 0.2 hectares from BNG requirements.
Members: Correspondence
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to reply to the letter of 17 April 2026 from the hon. Member for Henley and Thame.