Question follow-through · 13604
Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the risk of wildfires during periods of extreme heat.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the risk of wildfires during periods of extreme heat.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
Defra with its executive agencies, ALBs and through the Protected Landscapes, encourage landscape scale land management to help increase wildfire resilience, including through the adoption of good quality wildfire management plans. We are also working clo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Food: Production
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Agriculture: Investment
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who will be appointed to the task-and-finish group on private finance in sustainable farming.
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Fylde
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Fylde constituency he expects to benefit from the reopening of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Agriculture: Innovation
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that additional funding for the Farming Innovation Programme is allocated equitably by region.
Floods: Home Insurance
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2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of households that will experience a reduction in insurance premiums under the revised Flood Re premium model.
Floods: Home Insurance
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she expects insurers to pass on the full reduction in Flood Re contents-only premiums to consumers.
Flood Control
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when Flood Performance Certificates will be introduced.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Westminster Hall Sittings
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to her Department of preparing ministers to respond to Westminster Hall Debates.
Veterinary Services: Licensing
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects the proposed licensing regime for veterinary practices to come into force.
Food: Prices
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on measures to reduce food price inflation.