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Written Question
Environment Agency: Standards
Thursday 13th November 2025

Asked by: Bobby Dean (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Environment Agency investigations.

Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Defra Ministers meet regularly with the Environment Agency’s investigations to discuss its performance and delivery of departmental priorities. This financial year we have introduced new performance indicators on the effectiveness and delivery of Environment Agency investigations.