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1137810

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date	09/07/2019
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	Climate Change
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 discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on fiscal measures to support his work on tackling climate change.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	275213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has had discussions on a number of occasions with the Chancellor regarding action on climate change and uses taxpayers’ money to support nature based solutions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/07/2019 11:35:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1136371

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
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	Environment Agency: Chief Scientific Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the Environment Agency does not have a Chief Scientific Advisor.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	272222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency is not a Government department but it does have a Director of Research, Analysis and Evaluation who performs many of the functions that would be expected of that role.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 10/07/2019 11:44:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1136372

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
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	Environment Agency: Scientific Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which scientific advisory committees the Environment Agency manages; and how advice from those committees has been used by the Environment Agency in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	272223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has a Scientific Advisory Group for the Strategic Monitoring Programme. It also convenes workshops of academics to give advice on issues, rather than having multiple standing groups. The Environment Agency also has links with the Defra Science Advisory Committee and other science advice mechanisms across Government.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 10/07/2019 11:55:06 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1105781

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Water: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to tackle water scarcity.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	910087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises continued action is required, and it is committed to a ‘twin track approach’ of managing water demand, including leakage reduction, and increasing supply, in parallel. The Government’s National Policy Statement for water resources infrastructure, currently undergoing parliamentary scrutiny, will streamline the planning permission process. The Government will also be launching a call for evidence on an ambitious target for per capita consumption in May.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/03/2019 17:58:24 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1019865

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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 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 information his Department holds on the proportion of recyclable material collected by each local authority responsible for waste collection which is (a) recycled and (b) sent (i) to landfill, (ii) for incineration and (iii) for other non-recycling disposal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	198855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Data on the weight of recycling collected and the subsequent processing of such material is reported by local authorities via the WasteDataFlow website: <a href="http://www.wastedataflow.org/home.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.wastedataflow.org/home.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra does not routinely generate or publish figures at local authority level on the proportions of waste specifically collected for recycling that is not reused or reprocessed. However, detailed data on the end destination of wastes at a local authority level is publicly available and can be downloaded from the WasteDataFlow website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra publishes several datasets on local authority waste. The dataset “Local authority collected waste generation from April 2000 to March 2017 (England and regions) and local authority data April 2016 to March 2017)” found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables</a>, contains the closest measure to those required by this question. This is “Local authority collected - estimated rejects” found in Table 1<sup>(a)</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is the estimated tonnage of all rejects from all waste streams at local authority level. This includes both waste specifically collected for recycling and materials separated from the residual waste stream but which are then subsequently rejected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The dataset does not contain estimates of how these rejects were disposed of.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, analysis undertaken earlier this year on detailed data at the national (England) level estimated that around 1.3% of the 11.1 million tonnes of waste collected for recycling in 2016/17 ended up in landfill <sup>(b)</sup>. The 1.3% is calculated using the weight of material sent directly and indirectly to landfill and includes the weight of ash from rejected materials sent for incineration.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 11/12/2018 16:07:23 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner