Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 52331

Environment Protection: Public Bodies

Tabled: 14 May 2025
Answered: 20 May 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there is a consolidated public list of each (a) public authority and (b) private body with public functions that is subject to the Environmental Information Regulations.

Answer

Mary Creagh
No. There is no consolidated, public list of relevant bodies. Bodies are made subject to the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) through the definition in regulation 2(2), rather than by designation. The Information Commissioner has jurisdict...
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