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Fires: Moorland

Commons · Question 75023 · Tabled 4 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 12 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Lizzi Collinge

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with (a) landowners and (b) Natural England on the (i) risk of wildfire in areas of moorland that is not actively managed and (ii) potential impact of po

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 12 Sep 2025

This Government has engaged with public and private landowners, and Natural England, throughout the consultation process on amending The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021. The revised regulations, which were laid before Parliament ...