Question follow-through · 26859
Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve the a) identification and b) prosecution of individuals responsible for deliberately starting wildfires.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- No published answer in this record
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve the a) identification and b) prosecution of individuals responsible for deliberately starting wildfires.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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