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1140185

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Sewage: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of sewage releases by water companies in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278965 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140186

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Sewage: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage releases there were by water company in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278964 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140252

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Mercury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for control on mercury in the event of a no deal Brexit have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>All aspects of the plan for control of mercury in the event of a no deal Brexit have been implemented. The following regulations are now in place to ensure that the EU Mercury regulation will continues to operate:</p><ul><li><p>The Control of Mercury (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019</p></li><li><p>The Environment and Wildlife (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019</p></li></ul><p>The UK’s enforcing authorities will continue to control the movement and use of mercury, in line with legislation and our commitments under the Minamata Convention.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 09:29:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1139279

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Deep Sea Mining
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential environmental effects of the disturbance of deep-sea carbon stores through deep-sea mining.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	277680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>Defra is investigating the environmental effects of deep-sea mining through the Deep-sea Mining Cross Government Working Group, which includes Cefas, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The working group is supported by input from the National Oceanography Centre, Natural History Museum and British Geological Survey. The group intends to cover the effects of the disturbance of deep sea carbon stores in its forthcoming meetings.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/07/2019 16:26:41 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1139721

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support his Department provides to local authorities for investment in waste and recycling facilities.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has provided local government with over £200 billion for this spending period and while councils make their own spending decisions, we would expect councils to prioritise what they do to deliver what their residents want to see and to invest in waste and recycling facilities as necessary to ensure good waste management practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also investing around £3 billion of grant funding in 24 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) waste infrastructure projects. These grants support infrastructure including material recovery, mechanical biological treatment and anaerobic digestion facilities, as well as implementing and expanding kerbside recycling services.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 09:27:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139723

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse of the introduction of separate food waste collections throughout England.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>In the supporting impact assessment to our consultation on consistency in recycling, we modelled three scenarios on how that policy could be delivered, all including separate food waste collection. In the preferred option of that impact assessment (option 3, which for local authorities includes weekly separate food waste, free garden waste, weekly dry multi-stream recycling and fortnightly residual waste collections) the overall cost to the public purse is estimated to be just under £260 million a year between 2023-2035.</p><p> </p><p>This comprises: local authority initial costs and subsequent savings; lost revenue to the Exchequer from local authority and business waste diverted away from landfill; lost garden waste income to local authorities; and policy costs to Government in supporting waste collection changes to municipal business.</p><p> </p><p>The full impact assessment is available from the following link: <a href="https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/consultation-on-consistency-in-household-and-busin/supporting_documents/recycleconsistencyconsultia.pdf" target="_blank">https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/consultation-on-consistency-in-household-and-busin/supporting_documents/recycleconsistencyconsultia.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We will refine our analysis based on consultation feedback and engagement with the sector.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 09:14:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139724

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many local waste collection authorities own arms-length commercial waste collection services.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>We do not record this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/07/2019 16:24:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139725

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Plastics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to tackle agricultural plastic pollution.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the reply given to the Hon. Member for Delyn, David Hanson, on 1 July 2019, PQ 268406.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/07/2019 16:33:36 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139729

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Landfill: Methane
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has made available to waste disposal authorities for the prevention of methane emissions from closed landfill sites.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>No funding has been made available by the Department to disposal authorities for the prevention of methane emissions from closed landfill sites.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 14:55:20 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139732

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent on tackling waste crime in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In tackling waste crime the Environment Agency has spent: (in millions)</p><p> </p><p>£13.4m in 2013/14</p><p>£11.2m in 2014/15</p><p>£11.4m in 2015/16</p><p>£10.8m in 2016/17</p><p>£10.7m in 2017/18</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2018/19 has not yet been released.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/07/2019 16:21:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin