| Heading: |
Peatlands: Controlled Burning |
| Question ID: |
1759258 |
| UIN: |
26866 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5142 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Abtisam Mohamed
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Abtisam Mohamed
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to enforce the ban on peat burning in England. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
Defra takes any allegations of breaches of The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021 seriously and has developed a robust triage and assessment process with the support of Natural England and Defra’s Counter Fraud and Investigations (C... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |