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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons she is unable to give a specific date for publication of her Department's 25-year plan for the environment.

The plan has not yet been written but it is a manifesto commitment to publish in the course of this parliament. We aim to publish a consultation on our ambitions for the 25 year environment plan in due course.