A question on #SpecialProtectionAreas #Cemeteries tabled by Dr Roz Savage on 23-06-2025 has been answered by Emma Hardy.

Heading: Special Protection Areas: Cemeteries
Question ID: 1815576
UIN: 62063
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-06-23
Asking Member ID: 5352
Asking Member display name: Dr Roz Savage
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Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Special Protection Zone regulations on the ability of small towns to establish new burial grounds; and what assessmen
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Date answered: 2025-06-30
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Answering Member ID: 4645
Answering Member display name: Emma Hardy
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Answer text: Source Protection Zones are sensitive areas because the underlying groundwater contributes towards public drinking water supplies. To protect those supplies from pollution, unless exempt, new cemeteries must operate under an environmental permit and the E...
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Answering body ID: 13
Answering body name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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