Question follow-through · 11523
Water Abstraction: Hampshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential long term impact of water abstraction on Greywell fen.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential long term impact of water abstraction on Greywell fen.
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
Surveys over 15 years show an ongoing decline of conditions. Continued abstraction risks further degradation and decline of the fen’s condition and its function, processes and integrity.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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