Question follow-through · 585

Sewage: Gibraltar

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Government of Gibraltar about the processing of raw sewage in Gibraltar.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

About this written question

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 13 May 2026
Target answer date: 18 May 2026
Answer: 19 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Government of Gibraltar about the processing of raw sewage in Gibraltar.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2026
Answer published
Ministers meet regularly with the Government of Gibraltar to discuss a range of environmental matters including wastewater management.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Agriculture: Innovation and Technology

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support the (a) development and (b) use of innovative technology in farming in Staffordshire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Nature Conservation: Staffordshire

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help communities in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire restore nature.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Beef: Exports

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to support farmers in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire to export British beef.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Fly-tipping: Enforcement

18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that effective penalties are imposed on people that illegally dump waste in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme, (b) Staffordshire and (

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: UK Soft Power Council

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions a) Ministers and b) officials in her Department have had with the Soft Power Council.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Agriculture: Energy

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support farmers in Staffordshire with energy costs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination

1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Badger vaccination scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime: Rural Areas

4 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling rural crime.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crime: Rural Areas

4 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the financial impact of rural crime on a) farmers and b) rural communities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste: Crime

5 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to prevent victims of waste crime having to bear the cost of any required clean-up in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b) Staffordshire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste: Organised Crime

5 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure effective action is taken against organised criminal networks in the waste sector.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste: Crime

5 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a single national reporting system for incidents of waste crime.