Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 72689

Biofuels: Agriculture

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting restrictions similar to those in Switzerland on the spreading of biomass ash on fields.

Answer

Mary Creagh

Defra has not made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting restrictions similar to those in Switzerland on the spreading of biomass ash on fields. Waste and agriculture are devolved policy areas, so this response only covers England. In England ...

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