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Controlled Burning

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 3 November 2025UIN 85821

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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

Answered by Mary Creagh

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

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