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Rivers: Environment Protection

Commons · Question 57370 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 10 Jun 2025

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Asked by Greg Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the ecological vulnerability of chalk stream habitats; and whether his Department plans to develop

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 10 Jun 2025

Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...