Question follow-through · 128398
Dairy Farming: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to support dairy farms in North Shropshire, who fall within the highest area for heat risk in the country and face escalating climate-related challenges.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to support dairy farms in North Shropshire, who fall within the highest area for heat risk in the country and face escalating climate-related challenges.
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Defra-funded Food, Farming & Natural Environment Climate Service led out of the Met Office has developed evidence on adaptation options which improve resilience of the agri-food sector, including cost and ease of implementation. These adaptation o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fertilisers and Food Supply
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