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1167505

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	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, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve air quality standards.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	7792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Our Clean Air Strategy (CAS) sets out an ambitious programme of action to reduce air pollutant emissions from a wide range of sources. The World Health Organization has recognised the CAS as an example for the rest of the world to follow. We have also put in place a £3.5 billion plan to tackle roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations. Our Environment Bill makes a clear commitment to set a legally binding target to reduce fine particulate matter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:31 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1167520

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	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	Natural England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 1654 on Natural England, what estimate she has made of the shortfall in the resources available to Natural England to discharge its statutory functions and duties; for what reason Natural England does not have powers to charge for regulatory works; if she will make it her policy to grant Natural England those powers; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	7747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Natural England (NE), like all other Defra sponsored bodies, receives a budget to carry out its duties and responsibilities in line with what is affordable and the Government’s priorities for the natural environment. Grant in Aid has reduced over recent years, however NE receives income from other sources to carry out its duties. The resulting reduction aligns with the Defra Group average of 23% across the same period.</p><p> </p><p>NE’s primary power to charge for services and licences is in section 11 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (‘the Act’). Under section 11(1) of the Act, NE can charge for its services and, for example, uses this power to underpin its chargeable Discretionary Advice Service, through which it is able to offer advice to developers and others in response to non-statutory requests (e.g. pre-application advice). To exercise its powers under section 11(3) of the Act to charge for its service in issuing licences, enabling legislation would need to be in place. Defra is working closely with NE to consider how to broaden its income base.</p><p> </p><p>The recent one-year Spending Round for the financial year 2020 to 2021 saw some additional funds allocated for biodiversity. Defra will work with NE to determine future funding necessary from 2020 to deliver NE’s contribution to Government’s ambitions for the environment, including its 25 Year Plan for the Environment.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/11/2019 17:49:42 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1167156

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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	Air Pollution: St Helens
	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 her Department is taking to improve air quality in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	7176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Our Clean Air Strategy includes new and ambitious goals, legislation, investment and policies which will help us to clean up our air faster and more effectively. The Environment Bill includes measures to improve air quality including ensuring local authorities have a clear framework, and simple to use powers, to tackle air pollution.</p><p>Local authorities already have statutory duties to review and assess local air quality, and to declare Air Quality Management Areas and put in place action plans to clean up local air if improvements are necessary. There are a range of tools available to them to support this work.</p><p>The Borough’s latest assessment of air quality in St Helens is detailed in their Annual Status Report for 2018. This details the measures they have put in place to tackle poor air quality and the progress they are making towards achieving their air quality objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/11/2019 17:45:45 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1167172

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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	Animal Experiments: 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, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the sharing of data on chemical safety jointly owned through consortia to ensure that duplicate tests on animals for the purposes of a UK REACH registration are reduced.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	7091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The principle of ‘one substance, one registration’ is a core principle underpinning REACH. The Government has been clear that this principle and therefore the capacity for submission of joint registrations will be retained under UK REACH. This principle will help reduce the amount of testing required to demonstrate safe use and management of a given chemical. We have worked with industry stakeholders one-to-one and in a series of workshops to develop this joint registration process, the supporting IT functionality and published written guidance to support the submission of joint dossiers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is not able to influence the terms under which data currently used for the purposes of EU REACH registrations can be accessed by UK companies in order to support their registrations under UK REACH. Although this is a matter for commercial negotiations, we will continue to work with and encourage industry to facilitate data sharing arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently working with key trade associations to develop data sharing guidance, which can be targeted directly to the trade associations’ members and networks. Together this guidance will be used by industry to develop future data sharing arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/11/2019 17:52:28 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy