| Heading: |
Peatlands: Conservation |
| Question ID: |
1817796 |
| UIN: |
63769 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5100 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of peatland recovery on the level of flood risk in Mid Bedfordshire constituency. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
The improvement of peatlands brings multiple benefits for biodiversity, reduction in carbon emissions and also flood-risk management. In the Mid Bedfordshire constituency, Defra is currently funding a Lowland Agricultural Peat Water Discovery Pilot projec... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |