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tabling member › label	Biography information for Martyn Day
answer date	2020-09-17
answering body	Department for Environment%2C Food and Rural Affairs
min answer date	2017-09-13
answer › answering member printed	Rebecca Pow

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15/09/2020

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Sewage: Waste Disposal

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of reports in the Guardian newspaper in its article entitled Nearly 30,000 tonnes of sewage sludge containing human waste to enter UK, published on 2 September 2020; and if he will make a statement.

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Linlithgow and East Falkirk

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Martyn Day

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is ministerial correction

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23/09/2020

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The Sludge Use in Agriculture Regulations provides controls that protect the environment and human health when these organic materials are spread to land.The use of sewage sludge in agriculture is regulated by the Environment Agency. The Environment Agency has reviewed the risks and limitations of the regulatory framework and issued a bespoke landspreading mobile plant permit to handle sludge from the Netherlands.Provided the use of sewage sludge is carried out in accordance with the relevant regulatory controls and good practice guidance is followed, the recycling of sewage sludge to land remains a safe activity.We are working to implement the Environment Agency’s Sludge Strategy to bring sludge and septic tank sludge into the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations, by 2023. This will enable better management of the environmental impacts of landspreading sludge, and modernise the regulatory framework surrounding the treatment, storage and safe use of sludge.

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Taunton Deane

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Rebecca Pow

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23/09/2020 14:41:05

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label	Biography information for Martyn Day