Controlled Burning
Commons · Question 100702 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 23 Dec 2025
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Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the weighted scores given to the academic studies reviewed by Natural England in its paper on the effects of managed burning (NEER155); and i
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Answered by Mary Creagh, 23 Dec 2025
No such assessment has been made by Defra. This is because NEER155 went through rigorous peer review prior to publication, with all external peer reviewers being leading peatland experts at major universities and other expert institutions. NEER155 is the ...