Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 85821

Controlled Burning

Tabled: 28 October 2025
Answered: 3 November 2025

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

ConservativeThirsk and Malton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the ongoing Natural Environment Research Council study on the role of prescribed burns in re

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra will consider the outcomes of this study when published, as with all new evidence in this area.