Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 75023

Fires: Moorland

Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Lizzi Collinge

LabourMorecambe and Lunesdale

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

Mary Creagh
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 ...

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