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Nature Conservation: Training

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 7285, tabled on 4 October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to provide training to rangers on the use of firefighting equipment.

Answered on

11 October 2024

Fire Services are responsible for responding to and fighting fires. Defra will not provide training on firefighting equipment beyond the control of managed vegetation fires.