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1721588

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	Fertilisers: Production
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 ability of the UK’s fertiliser production capacity to meet domestic demand.
tabling member constituency	Glastonbury and Somerton
tabling member printed	Sarah Dyke
uin	303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>Fertiliser is a global market. Ensuring a resilient supply chain involves maintaining diverse sources, domestically and through international imports. The UK sources fertiliser from a wide range of countries and both produces and imports ammonium nitrate to meet demand.</p><p> </p><p>Defra actively monitors fertiliser prices and supply chains, including domestic production, through regular engagement with key manufacturers and wider stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:36:35 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	4995 label Biography information for Sarah Dyke

1721619

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
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 steps his Department is taking to operate regulations on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the context of the responsibilities of his Department (a) for the operation of those regulations and (b) under the terms of the Windsor Framework (Implementation) Regulations 2024.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Jim Allister
uin	334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>Defra, in line with the regulations taken forward last year to implement the Windsor Framework, has introduced and implemented arrangements for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme and Northern Ireland Plant Health Label.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:35:04 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	5356

1721620

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether implementation of the (a) Windsor Framework (Implementation) Regulations 2024 and (b) Safeguarding the Union Command Paper will affect documentary checks on goods travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Jim Allister
uin	335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to working closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in taking forward all of our commitments under the Windsor Framework in this regard and will set out further detail on future operational arrangements in due course.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:33:05 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	5356

1721623

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	Plants: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department (a) has deployed and (b) plans to deploy staff to specifically regulate the movement of plants from Great Britain to Northern Ireland; and what will inform that decision.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Jim Allister
uin	338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>APHA oversees biosecurity measures and conducts in-season inspections, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) establishes plant health policy. Inspections specifically related to plant movements in Northern Ireland are carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) where they are required.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:30:02 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	5356

1721661

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
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 staff in his Department are responsible for managing the flow of trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and what the cost to the public purse was of these measures in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Jim Allister
uin	376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>Defra does not hold this specific information but further details of the department's overall expenditure can be found in the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F653a9479e6c9680014aa9be8%2Fannual-report-and-accounts-2022-23.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNID.BriefingHub%40defra.gov.uk%7Ccc96c5a6b3244c1928db08dca803ab66%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638569982165916151%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IXWVUU919HHd6wI4abAW5MdBeg7XmsTX3EnlZS7IVmo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Defra Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:25:47 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	5356

1721665

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in which locations checks are carried out on goods transported between Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that such checks are commensurate with (a) relevant legislation and (b) the policy paper entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Jim Allister
uin	380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>In line with UK rules for sanitary and phytosanitary matters, checks on goods are carried out throughout the entire supply chain. This government is committed to making this process as smooth as possible for UK businesses.</p> answering member constituency Cambridge answering member printed Daniel Zeichner question first answered 22/07/2024 14:28:11 answering member 4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
tabling member	5356

1719562

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Bamboos: Weed Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to restrict the planting of monopodial bamboo.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	27300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The “bamboo” family is a collection of more than 1500 species, some of which are considered invasive.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware that, if left uncontrolled, bamboo can in some cases become challenging to manage. It is advised that a physical barrier is used to prevent the uncontrolled spread of bamboo. Where the growth of bamboo poses an issue, the Government recommends that this is addressed by cooperation between owners and affected parties.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the Government recognises that many bamboo species are vigorous and fast-growing, they are not currently thought to pose a significant threat to wildlife or to socio-economic interests nationally. Defra utilises horizon scanning exercises to identify potentially invasive species. As a result, a risk assessment of Black Bamboo (<em>Phyllostachys nigra</em>) was recently undertaken, however this showed the species to be of low risk to the country and therefore no further action was taken.</p><p> </p><p>Although the Government are not currently considering changing the legal status of one, or any, of the species of bamboo currently found in Great Britain, we keep matters such as these under review and continue to carry out horizon scanning and risk assessments for potential threats.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Sir Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 26974 question first answered 23/05/2024 09:35:28 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1719577

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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, what recent steps he has taken to help tackle waste crime in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	27267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling waste crime, and we are preparing significant reforms to continue to increase the pressure on illegal waste operators. Reform of the waste exemptions regime will close loopholes and prevent exemptions from being misused to permit risky and illegal activity. Our planned electronic waste tracking reforms will make it harder than ever to mis-identify waste or dispose of it inappropriately. Planned changes to the Carriers, Brokers and Dealers licensing regime will modernise licensing and make it harder still for rogue operators to escape detection. These will come in addition to measures in the Environment Act 2021 which gives agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crime as well as providing the Environment Agency with the ability to recover costs of investigation, intervention and enforcement at illegal or non-compliant waste sites.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also launched the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC). It brings together the Environment Agency, HM Revenue &amp; Customs, the National Crime Agency, the police, waste regulators from across the UK and other operational partners to share intelligence and tasking to disrupt and prevent serious organised waste crime. Since its launch the JUWC has worked with 131 partner organisations and engaged in 253 multi-agency days of action, which have resulted in 180 associated arrests by other agencies.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this we are working with stakeholders, such as the National Farmers Union and local authorities, to share good practice including how to prevent fly-tipping on private land. We are also currently funding a post within the National Rural Crime Unit to explore how the police’s role in tacking fly-tipping can be optimised, with a focus on rural areas.</p><p> </p><p>Across three rounds of our fly-tipping grant scheme we have now awarded nearly £2.2 million to help more than 50 councils tackle fly-tipping at known hot-spots, including in rural areas, such as by installing CCTV and raising awareness of the household waste duty of care. Case studies from completed projects have been published so that others can learn from successful interventions.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 23/05/2024 14:26:52 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1719589

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Flood Control: 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, how much funding has been allocated to each of the devolved institutions to help tackle flooding in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	27366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Flood defence spending is a devolved matter so questions about flood management spending and policy should be addressed directly to the devolved administrations.  Defra does not have information on devolved administration spending.</p><p> </p><p>The Barnett formula is applied in the normal way to any new funding provided to UK Government departments when the funding is allocated to those departments’ budgets. ‘Barnett’ funding to Devolved Administrations is not ring fenced.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 23/05/2024 12:43:48 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1719629

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Water Companies
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 Answer of 22 June 2023 to Question 188226 on Water Companies, how many (a) cautions, (b) prosecutions and (c) legal instruments the Drinking Water Inspectorate brought against water companies in each year since 2021 by water company.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	27313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2021, the Drinking Water Inspectorate brought against water companies in each year since 2021,</p><p> </p><p>(a) two cautions, one against Thames (2023) and one against Southern Water (2023),</p><p> </p><p>(b) three prosecutions, against Southern Water (2022) and one against South West and Bournemouth Water (2022) and one against Wessex Water in 2023, and</p><p> </p><p>(c) 362 legal instruments.</p><p> </p><p>These are shown by water company below and comprise drinking water quality Legal Instruments (Notices), Final Enforcement Orders, Regulation 15 Notices for new sources, Radioactivity notices (waivers), Network and Information Systems (NIS) notices, Security and Emergency Direction (SEMD) notices, and notices for Price Review 2024 for water quality, NIS and SEMD. (They include the PR24 schemes that have been served to date which are most of the lead reduction schemes but no PFAS as yet, as the process is ongoing).</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Legal instruments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>2024 (inc PR24)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Affinity Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Albion Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Albion Water Eco</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Anglian Water Services Ltd</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol Water Plc</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESP Water</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hafren Dyfrdwy</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Icosa Water</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent Water Networks Ltd</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leep Networks (Water) Ltd</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbrian, Essex and Suffolk Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SES Water</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southern Water Services Ltd</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Staffordshire Water and Cambridge Water PLC</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severn Trent Water Ltd</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West and Bournemouth Water Ltd (incl Isles of Scilly)</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Water Utilities Ltd</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Utilities Water PLC</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Veolia Water Projects Ltd</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex Water Services Ltd</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire Water Services Ltd</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>362</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 24/05/2024 13:36:33 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron