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Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 11521, tabled on 3 February 2020

Question

Ms Lyn Brown
Labour
West Ham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consultations her Department has undertaken on the implementation of the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019.

Answer

Rebecca Pow
Conservative
Taunton Deane
Commons

Answered on

10 February 2020

Defra has undertaken two formal consultations relating to the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019. They were: “Invasive Non-native Species: Tackling Invasive Non-native Species – A new enforcement regime” and “Management measures for widely spread Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in England and Wales”. These consultations ran from from 9 January 2018 to 3 April 2018 and 18 July 2019 to 12 September 2019 respectively.

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