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Gun Sports: Lead

Commons · Question 43504 · Tabled 2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 10 Apr 2025

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Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with the Health and Safety Executive on its proposed restriction on the acquisition, s

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 10 Apr 2025

In Spring 2021, Defra asked the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA) to prepare a restriction dossier for lead ammunition in all habitats. The HSE and the EA have considered the evidence of risk posed by lead in ammunition t...