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1714841

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	30/04/2024
	date tabled	30/04/2024
	ddp created	30/04/2024 17:31:56
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	30/04/2024 17:45:22 03/05/2024 10:58:04
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
	house id	1
	identifier	24213
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	03/05/2024 10:26:24
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of his Department's spending on agricultural payment schemes in the financial year 2022-2023.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24213
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24213
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In September 2023, the Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) published an annual report for financial year 2022 to 2023. This set out that the FCP spent a total of £2.230 billion on our existing, and new farming schemes.</p>
	creator	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1714517

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:51:16
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 20:57:29 02/05/2024 13:12:04
	hansard heading	Flood Control: Finance
	house id	1
	identifier	24063
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	02/05/2024 12:40:58
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for announcing further successful applicants for funding under the Frequently Flooded Allowance scheme.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24063
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24063
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In July 2022 the Government announced the £100 million Frequently Flooded Allowance to support communities that have experienced repeated flooding. The Allowance improves access to public funding for frequently flooded communities that have not been able to secure all of the funding necessary to progress their flood resilience scheme. The first 53 projects to receive £48 million from the Allowance were announced in April 2023. The next round of projects will be announced in due course.</p>
	creator	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1714535

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:52:38
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	30/04/2024 11:35:10 08/05/2024 08:36:05
	hansard heading	Darwin Plus: Finance
	house id	1
	identifier	24033
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	07/05/2024 16:40:43
	question first ministerially corrected	08/05/2024 08:05:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2024 to Question 22727 on Darwin Plus: Finance, if he will list the (a) funding and (b) recipient of the funding for each project per territory.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
	tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24033
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24033
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Pursuant</del> <ins class="ministerial">Pursuant</ins> to the Answer of 26 April to Question 22727, Darwin Plus projects awarded funding since 2019 for each Territory can be found in the attached table. The table includes grants from all Darwin Plus schemes: Main, Fellowships (recently rebranded as People &amp; Skills), Covid 19 Rapid Response (A time-limited scheme for 2021), and two new schemes introduced in 2023, Local and Strategic.</p><p> </p><p>Further information about active and completed Darwin Plus projects can be found on the Darwin Plus website, which will soon be updated to include the latest projects awarded in 2024.</p>
	creator	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

1714622

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:58:10
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	30/04/2024 13:45:06 08/05/2024 14:19:05
	hansard heading	Darwin Plus: Finance
	house id	2
	identifier	HL4173
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	08/05/2024 13:47:09
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to continue financing Darwin Plus at £10 million per year after the current commitment ends in 2025.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Randall of Uxbridge
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 HL4173
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4173
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Running since 2012, the Darwin Plus programme has invested over £55 million in more than 320 projects across the UK Overseas Territories. The UK Government has recently expanded the Darwin Plus programme to better meet the needs of the UK Overseas Territories. In 2023, Darwin Plus introduced a new local scheme aimed at building capacity, and a new strategic scheme for fostering great innovation, ambition and collaboration in and between territories, both of which are now funding live projects.</p><p> </p><p>Post March 2025, Darwin Plus funding will be subject to outcomes of the next Spending Review.</p>
	creator	209 label Biography information for Lord Randall of Uxbridge
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	209 label Biography information for Lord Randall of Uxbridge

1714623

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:58:12
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:16:09 14/05/2024 17:16:04
	hansard heading	Import Controls: Disease Control
	house id	1
	identifier	24028
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	14/05/2024 16:44:26
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2024 to Question 13303 on Import Controls: Disease Control, when he will publish an economic impact assessment of the legislative measures required to introduce the Border Target Operating Model.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24028
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24028
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Analysis has been and will continue to be produced for statutory instruments in accordance with the Better Regulation Framework.</p><p> </p><p>An Impact Assessment was produced for The Official Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 and was published on 22 April on <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/541/impacts" target="_blank">legislation.gov.uk</a>.</p>
	creator	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1714626

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:58:27
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:16:13 14/05/2024 17:11:07
	hansard heading	Import Controls: Staff
	house id	1
	identifier	24029
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	14/05/2024 16:39:24
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff will be assigned to (a) monitor and enforce the restrictions introduced under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) and (b) carry out the administration of the BTOM, expressed as (i) full-time equivalent numbers and (ii) headcount.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24029
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24029
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Monitoring and enforcing the border controls introduced under the BTOM is undertaken collaboratively on a site by site basis at each point of entry between Defra, Port Health Authorities (part of local authorities), the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Border Force and HMRC, and the Port Operators.</p><p> </p><p>The department considers that this information is operationally - and in the case of Port Operators commercially - sensitive and should be withheld.</p>
	creator	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1714629

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:58:40
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:16:16 13/05/2024 16:35:13
	hansard heading	Import Controls
	house id	1
	identifier	24030
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	13/05/2024 16:03:40
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of physical checks that will take place under the Border Target Operating Model on consignments containing only medium- and low-risk goods entering the UK through the short straits in the week commencing 6 May 2024; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of all such eligible consignments this would represent.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24030
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24030
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Estimates of the operational capacity of Sevington have been based on a throughput model that seeks to model the flow of goods into the site based on the volumes, seasonal trends, timetabling of ferries and operational assumptions around the number of bays in use, and the duration of inspections including marshalling time and cleaning.</p><p> </p><p>Our checks are intelligence-led and based on biosecurity risk. It would be inappropriate for us to set out operational details like the exact inspection details from 30 April. Traders should continue to follow the published guidance which sets out BTOM inspection rates.</p><p> </p><p>DEFRA will gradually increase changes in controlled stages to balance biosecurity risk and maintain trade flows whilst minimising disruption at the border.</p><p> </p><p>This will allow the level of goods inspected at the border to be operationally manageable over the introductory stages.</p>
	creator	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1714632

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:58:52
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:16:19 13/05/2024 16:35:11
	hansard heading	Import Controls
	house id	1
	identifier	24031
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	13/05/2024 16:03:40
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of physical checks that will take place under the Border Target Operating Model on consignments containing only high-risk goods entering the UK through the short straits in the week commencing 6 May 2024; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of all such eligible consignments this would represent.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24031
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24031
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Estimates of the operational capacity of Sevington have been based on a throughput model that seeks to model the flow of goods into the site based on the volumes, seasonal trends, timetabling of ferries and operational assumptions around the number of bays in use, and the duration of inspections including marshalling time and cleaning.</p><p> </p><p>Our checks are intelligence-led and based on biosecurity risk. It would be inappropriate for us to set out operational details like the exact inspection details from 30 April. Traders should continue to follow the published guidance which sets out BTOM inspection rates.</p><p> </p><p>DEFRA will gradually increase changes in controlled stages to balance biosecurity risk and maintain trade flows whilst minimising disruption at the border.</p><p> </p><p>This will allow the level of goods inspected at the border to be operationally manageable over the introductory stages.</p>
	creator	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1714639

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 20:59:10
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:16:25 07/05/2024 13:28:04
	hansard heading	Landfill: Coastal Areas
	house id	1
	identifier	24165
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	07/05/2024 12:56:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent (a) flooding and (b) erosion of former coastal landfill sites; whether funding is available to local authorities to tackle that matter; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using under-spend from the Environment Agency's capital programme for that purpose.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Hastings and Rye
	tabling member printed	Sally-Ann Hart
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 24165
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24165
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Since 2010, the Government has invested around £6 billion to better protect over 600,000 properties from flooding and coastal erosion.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing £5.6 billion between 2021 and 2027 to better protect communities across England from flooding and coastal erosion. All of the £5.6 billion is expected to have been invested by 2027. This investment includes a record £5.2 billion capital investment programme, a £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programme, £170 million for economic recovery from flooding and over £30 million of funding for flood incident management. The amount to be spent on coastal erosion and sea flooding is forecast to be around £1.3 billion between April 2021 and March 2027.</p><p> </p><p>.Responsibility for managing both coastal change and legacy coastal landfill sites lies with the relevant coastal protection authorities. Local authorities’ waste powers are defined under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The Environment Agency has recently worked with local authorities to update <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/shoreline-management-plans" target="_blank">Shoreline Management Plans</a> to reflect action required at the coast, including to manage landfill at risk, and is also updating public maps showing projections of future erosion risk.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities receive revenue funding for local services through the Local Government Settlement. The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25 makes available over £64.7 billion, an increase in Core Spending Power of up to £4.5 billion or 7.5% in cash terms on 2023-24. The majority of local government funding is un-ringfenced, recognising that local authorities are best placed to decide how to meet the major service pressures in their local areas, including on flood and coastal erosion risk management.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that for some historic coastal landfill (HCL) sites, understanding the impacts and therefore remediation priorities may not be clear. We have commissioned a project to complete a national assessment of the situation to provide us with a clear and up to date understanding of the scale of risks posed by HCL sites in England. This will support national and local understanding of the issues, including enabling informed decisions on priority actions needed. The project is due to be completed by spring 2025.</p>
	creator	4842 label Biography information for Sally-Ann Hart
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4842 label Biography information for Sally-Ann Hart

1714675

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/05/2024
	date	29/04/2024
	date tabled	29/04/2024
	ddp created	29/04/2024 21:01:44
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	29/04/2024 21:10:01 02/05/2024 14:05:05
	hansard heading	Non-native Species
	house id	2
	identifier	HL4160
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	02/05/2024 13:33:21
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are monitoring the spread of non-native flatworms in the UK, particularly the New Zealand flatworm; what assessment they have made of any recent increases in the numbers of non-native flatworms in the UK; and what steps they are taking (1) to combat the spread of non-native flatworms, and (2) to advise the public.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 HL4160
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4160
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made of the numbers of non-native flatworms in the UK. While some data on New Zealand flatworms (<em>Arthurdendyus triangulates</em>) is collected this is not sufficiently systematic to support a full assessment.</p><p> </p><p>We encourage the public to submit sightings with photographs to iRecord (which can be found at irecord.org.uk) such that the species can be accurately identified. The record is then uploaded to the biological records centre and will improve our understanding of the distribution of the species.</p><p> </p><p>We have developed a <a href="https://www.nonnativespecies.org/biosecurity/pathway-action-plans/horticulture-pap-for-great-britain/" target="_blank">Horticulture Pathway Action Plan</a> (PAP) (copy attached) which aims to prevent and manage the risk posed by species such as the New Zealand flatworm using measures such as raising public awareness, minimizing the contamination of goods, commodities, vehicles and equipment by invasive non-native species, and ensuring appropriate border checks. An action within this document specific to flatworms is to establish a task-and-finish group to review existing guidance and develop new guidance on flatworms. We are due to consult on the PAPs later this year, and following the conclusion of that exercise, the actions such as this one in the PAPs will commence.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Invasive Species Week is coming up and will take place from the 20th to 26th May 2024. This is an annual week of awareness raising and events to help prevent the spread, and reduce the harmful impacts, of invasive non-native plants and animals.</p>
	creator	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian