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Question follow-through · 24574

Water: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve cross-departmental coordination of water safety and drowning prevention policy.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve cross-departmental coordination of water safety and drowning prevention policy.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    Water safety and drowning prevention are of critical importance and span a broad range of issues, including education, public health, emergency response, local government, recreation and navigation. Responsibility therefore sits across a number of organis...

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