Question follow-through · 120643
Odour Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will issue guidance to (a) the Environment Agency and (b) local authority officers setting out their respective powers to (i) identify an odour and (ii) take enforcem
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Environment Agency: Local Government · 10 Apr 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will issue guidance to (a) the Environment Agency and (b) local authority officers setting out their respective powers to (i) identify an odour and (ii) take enforcem
17 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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19 Mar 2026
Answer published
Owners of industrial, trade and business premises are expected to use the best practicable means available to reduce odours, effluvia and other potential sources of statutory nuisance emanating from their place of work in the first place. If this is not h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Environment Agency: Local Government
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to allow the Environment Agency's online reporting tool to also send notification of re