Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 57370

Rivers: Environment Protection

Tabled: 4 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Greg Smith

ConservativeMid Buckinghamshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the ecological vulnerability of chalk stream habitats; and whether his Department plans to develop

Answer

Emma Hardy
Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...

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