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1546821

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Sewers: 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 steps she is taking to ensure that water companies reduce water waste and overflows.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	99985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>We have been repeatedly clear to water companies that they must tackle sewage overflows urgently, and the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan will deliver the largest infrastructure investment in water company history to clean up our rivers. Under the Environment Act we have improved monitoring and the transparency of data related to sewage overflows. Event Duration Monitors will be fully rolled out by 2023. This will help monitor sewage impacts and hold water companies to account to deliver rapid improvements.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 08/12/2022 16:02:17 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1547010

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Chemicals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to publish its UK Chemicals Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	99967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>We have been engaging closely with external partners over the past few months to inform policy development across a range of chemicals issues. This builds on the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to set out our strategy to tackling chemicals of concern. No publication date for a Chemicals Strategy has yet been set.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/12/2022 18:09:50 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1682949

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Food: Imports
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 he is taking to ensure the safety of imported food under the Border Target Operating Model.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	9995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government’s absolute priority in delivering the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is to protect and enhance food safety, and plant, animal and public health. The BTOM sets outs out a risk-based, proportionate regime of controls which systematically assesses the inherent biosecurity or public health risk presented by an import, together with the prevalence of relevant pests and diseases and our confidence in the exporting country’s production standards and health controls. This assessment allows us to set controls at the most appropriate level and focus on the areas of highest risk to ensure food safety.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 31/01/2024 13:55:53 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1546983

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Animals: Antibiotics
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 her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of restricting the use of antibiotics in treatments for animal welfare.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	99927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Antibiotics are an essential part of veterinary medicine. Failing to use antibiotics in animals which need them compromises animal health and welfare. The Government’s position is that we must reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in animals while making sure they can still be used when they are truly needed, to reduce antimicrobial resistance. In the UK, the use of antibiotics in food producing animals has reduced by 55% between 2014 and 2021, and in 2021 we recorded the lowest antibiotic use to date.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/12/2022 18:54:07 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1546982

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Disease 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, what steps she is taking to slow the spread of superbugs.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	99926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Defra is a co-signatory with the Department of Health and Social Care of the UK's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 5 year National Action Plan (2019-2024) and the UK's 20 year Vision to Contain and Control AMR by 2040. The UK is considered a global leader on AMR.</p><p>The UK takes a One Health, holistic approach, working together to control the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria (also known as superbugs), by reducing antibiotic use in humans and animals and limiting the spread of resistant bacteria through the environment. In the UK, the use of antibiotics in food producing animals has reduced by 55% between 2014 and 2021, and in 2021 we recorded the lowest antibiotic use to date. Over the same period, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) have reported an overall trend of decreasing antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from animals.</p><p>The UK Government funded the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATHSAFE) programme last year, which brings together partners to better understand AMR and gather tracking and monitoring data. Over the years the government has supported several stewardship programmes to encourage the responsible use of antibiotics in humans and animals. Defra also coordinated the Annual Health and Welfare Review which is the first step farmers can take on the government's Animal Health and Welfare Pathway introducing a vet visit for farmers on a yearly basis. These programmes aim to reduce the amount of medicine used on endemic diseases in the long term, helping in the fight against superbugs.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/12/2022 18:50:32 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1546981

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Livestock: Antibiotics
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 her Department has made of the potential merits for tackling superbugs of (a) prohibiting all forms of routine farm antibiotic use and (b) prohibiting purely preventative antibiotic group treatments.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	99925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>Defra does not support the routine or predictable use of antibiotics, including where antibiotics are used to compensate for inadequate farming practices.We have been consistent that the focus of tackling antimicrobial resistance must be on reducing all unnecessary use of antibiotics, because resistance is promoted whenever an antibiotic is used, regardless of the reason.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 99924 question first answered 25/01/2023 14:09:45 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1546846

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Livestock: Antibiotics
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 she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting (a) preventative antibiotic group treatments on farm animals and (b) antibiotics being used to compensate for poor hygiene or inadequate husbandry on farms.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	99924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>Defra does not support the routine or predictable use of antibiotics, including where antibiotics are used to compensate for inadequate farming practices.We have been consistent that the focus of tackling antimicrobial resistance must be on reducing all unnecessary use of antibiotics, because resistance is promoted whenever an antibiotic is used, regardless of the reason.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 99925 question first answered 25/01/2023 14:09:45 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1682905

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Air Pollution
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 the Government will adopt the World Health Organisation's guidelines on the maximum permissible levels of pollutants, published in September 2021, in the context of research published by the University of Dundee on the impact of air pollution on hospital admissions for respiratory disease among children.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation Air Quality Guidelines are intended to inform the setting of air quality standards and are not ready-made targets for adoption.</p><p> </p><p>We recently set two new stretching and achievable targets for fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) under the Environment Act 2021, following an evidence-based process informed by the WHO Guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>We are working towards delivering these targets as set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 and Air Quality Strategy, which will have significant public health benefits, including for children.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 24/01/2024 16:22:23 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1546827

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006
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 her Department plans to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No.2) Order 2006.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	99824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The plan is to retain the Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No.2) Order 2006 (as amended).</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 07/12/2022 17:23:19 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1546823

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
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	Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017
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 her Department has plans to (a) reform, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	99823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>My department is carefully considering our retained EU law, including the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (the Habitats Regulations). Defra’s aim is to ensure that environmental law is fit for purpose, able to drive improved environmental outcomes whilst providing a UK regulatory framework that is appropriate and tailored to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 05/12/2022 15:15:05 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy