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1288755

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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 Protection
	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 Government’s policy statement on environmental principles published in December 2018, what plans the Government has to publish a public consultation on those principles.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	157065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>It is our intention to launch a 12-week consultation this March on a draft policy statement on environmental principles. This will outline how to interpret and proportionately apply the five internationally recognised environmental principles, plus a new duty which will embed these principles in policy making across government. We welcome feedback on the draft statement once published.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/03/2021 15:10:52 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1243491

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	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 Protection
	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 safeguards he plans to put in place to ensure that the interim environmental governance arrangements required before the Office for Environmental Protection becomes legally operational are independent of Government.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	103477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>The Interim Environmental Governance Secretariat will be hosted in Defra and will operate from the start of next year until the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) can begin its statutory functions. The interim arrangements will support the OEP Chair once the chair has been identified following a regulated public appointments process; and the interim arrangements will be under the guidance of both the Chair and the non-executive Board members once they have been confirmed in place as designates until Royal Assent. There will be staff designated to the Secretariat for this purpose and we are planning for them to work with propriety in handling public complaints that can then be handed to the OEP once it is live.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 22/10/2020 14:57:33 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1225268

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2020
	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 Protection
	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 progress he has made on implementing the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	74558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>In June the Government published its second 25 Year Environment Plan Progress Report. This second report describes where progress has been made towards achieving the long-term vision of the plan. It also highlights the challenges that still remain in improving the environment within a generation and which we are committed to addressing.</p><p>In the last 12 months we have taken significant steps forward in delivering our environmental commitments outlined in our 25 Year Environment Plan. We became the first major economy to legislate for net zero and underlining our commitment to achieving this target, we launched a consultation on bringing forward the end to the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible, including hybrids for the first time. We have also taken action to conserve our marine environment, including by designating the third tranche of 41 new Marine Conservation Zones in May 2019. We are also investing £640 million in a new Nature for Climate Fund to support woodland creation and peatland restoration. Action under each of the goal areas of the 25 Year Environment Plan is set out in the report.</p><p>A major step in implementing our environmental ambition has been bringing forward the first Environment Bill for more than 20 years to help leave the environment in a better state than that in which we found it. The Bill, alongside our strengthened Agriculture and Fisheries Bills, sets a new legal foundation for government action to improve the environment. It will place the environment at the heart of Government policy making and ensure that this Government – and future Governments – are held to account if they fail to uphold their environmental duties, including meeting net-zero by 2050, and wider long-term legally binding targets on biodiversity, air quality, water, and resource and waste efficiency established under the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/07/2020 13:50:40 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1151061

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Environment Protection
	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 assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the Atomic Energy Community published on 19 October 2019 on the environment.
	tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
	tabling member printed	Jane Dodds
	uin	2941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>Our high regulatory standards are not dependent on EU membership.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has an exceptional track record on environmental protection and this will not change after we leave the EU. Our landmark Environment Bill, introduced last week, marks a key step towards achieving a Green Brexit, and demonstrates how the UK is leading the world in setting legally binding domestic targets on environmental protection.</p><p> </p><p>In the political declaration, the UK and EU have agreed that the future relationship must ensure open and fair competition, encompassing robust commitments to ensure a level playing field. These commitments should uphold the common high standards applicable in the Union and the United Kingdom at the end of the transition period in the areas of state aid, competition, social and employment standards, the environment, climate change and relevant tax matters in order to prevent distortions of trade and unfair competitive advantages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 25/10/2019 11:23:58 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4718 label Biography information for Jane Dodds

1198925

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	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 Protection
	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 plans he has to reduce the UK’s global environmental footprint.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	52351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan sets out our ambition to support and protect the world’s forests, support sustainable agriculture and work towards zero-deforestation supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is part of the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership that aims to eliminate deforestation from agricultural commodity chains and supports a 100% sustainable palm oil supply chain in Europe.</p><p> </p><p>Through International Climate Finance, Defra contributes to a joint pledge between the UK, Germany, and Norway to provide $5 billion to encourage ambitious action from developing countries to protect their forests and promote more sustainable patterns of land use.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has established an independent taskforce, the Global Resource Initiative, to provide us with recommendations as to how we could support the efforts of producer countries to improve the sustainability of products and reduce deforestation. The taskforce recently published its final report that sets out an ambitious and strategic package of measures the Government could take to reduce the UK’s global environmental footprint, with a focus on forest risk commodities. We will be looking carefully at the report’s detailed recommendations and we will issue our formal response later this year.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/06/2020 09:39:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1288756

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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 Protection
	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 plans he has to implement the policy statement on environmental principles published in December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	157066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>It is our intention to share the draft policy statement on the environmental principles through public consultation this March. We will ensure awareness, and support understanding of the duty across government through workshops, training and integration within relevant guidance documents.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/03/2021 15:30:38 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1177327

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	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 Protection
	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 she is having with Cabinet colleagues on ensuring that environmental organisations are given priority for the allocation of funding raised from environmental charges and levies.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	14622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>Across the Defra group, for many environmental services provided, HM Treasury requires that we seek to charge for those services through full cost recovery, levies or in some cases taxes. For these services, the revenue received from these charges can only support the services specified. The retention of revenue from levies or taxes is usually in agreement with HM Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 17/02/2020 14:08:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1201732

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2020
	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 Protection
	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 systems required to ensure that the environmental principles set out in the Environment Bill inform relevant Ministerial policy making.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	57159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>The Environment Bill places a new legal duty on Ministers to have due regard to the environmental principles policy statement when making policy across Government. The policy statement will provide clarity on the interpretation and application of the environmental principles to the policy-making process. These principles will also be embedded into existing government policy making guidance, including HM Treasury’s Green Book.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 16/06/2020 08:13:15 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1243492

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	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 Protection
	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 (a) staff resources and (b) funding he plans to make available to the interim environmental governance arrangements required before the Office for Environmental Protection becomes legally operational.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	103478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has asked officials to assemble a team of staff from within Defra group, funded from the department’s budget, to receive and validate complaints against the criteria for complaining to the Office for Environmental Protection.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 22/10/2020 13:40:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1201731

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2020
	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 Protection
	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 publish the timetable for the consultation on the proposed policy statement on environmental principles as set out in the Environment Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	57158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>It is our intention to publish the timetable for the consultation on the proposed policy statement on environmental principles. In the meantime, the Explanatory Note published alongside the Environment Bill sets out the initial approach to the policy statement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 16/06/2020 08:08:27 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas