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1691254

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date	22/02/2024
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Expenditure
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 Chapter 6 of his Department’s publication entitled Defra’s annual report and accounts for 2022 to 2023, published on 26 October 2023, which local authority received the excess rock armour.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	15383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>The rock armour was transferred to Brighton and Hove City Council for the Brighton Marina to River Adur Coastal Protection Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 01/03/2024 10:30:20 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1689509

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Water: Standards
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 help improve water quality in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield, and (c) London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	14408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Nationally, the Government published the Plan for Water in April 2023 – our comprehensive strategy for managing our water environment, including our rivers. It brings together the significant steps we have already taken with a suite of new policy actions. It aims to change the way that we manage water, improve water quality, and continue to secure our water supply.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency works with water companies to develop and ensure investment in water quality improvements. Thames Water have delivered several actions relating to river water quality in Enfield. These have included investigations to better understand the impact of storm overflows from the sewerage system in the Pymmes Brook catchment, enhanced flow and discharge monitoring at Deephams wastewater treatment works and actions aiming to reduce the levels of pesticides and nitrates in Thames Water’s public water supply intakes. The Environment Agency also works closely with the council and the sewerage undertaker, Thames Water Utilities, to help identify and resolve pollution from misconnections in Enfield’s rivers.</p><p> </p><p>Defra and the Environment Agency partner and support local catchment partnerships, Local Authorities and other organisations such as Thames 21 to help protect and restore London’s water and flood plains. This includes a major wetland restoration project in Enfield connecting with the extensive reforestation project to restore Enfield Chase and Salmon’s Brook.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 22/02/2024 15:57:45 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1689510

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Fly-tipping: Greater London
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 has taken to help support local authorities tackle fly-tipping in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	14409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for keeping their public land clear of litter and refuse.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to strengthening enforcement powers for councils and developing a fly-tipping toolkit with the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group; our fly-tipping grants are helping councils across the country tackle fly-tipping at hotspots, such as by installing CCTV. Nearly £1.2million is already in use with a further £1million to be awarded this spring. Fourteen London LA’s have been invited to apply to the grant scheme. Of those, Newham &amp; Waltham Forest have been awarded funding, with grants from round three yet to be announced. A selection of case studies from completed projects are available online so that others can learn about those interventions which were most successful. These can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keepbritaintidy.org%2Ffly-tipping-intervention-grant-scheme&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C215cf7d9d5ee41ff8af308dc32059511%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638440246750037885%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rR4eYkSMbdZVfChu26wzCZxDsUR0z1xgkjXYIwO0iCk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/fly-tipping-intervention-grant-scheme</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency may investigate those incidents of fly-tipping which involve the following: more than 20 tonnes, 20 cubic metres, or a tipper load of waste; organised crime; or waste that has the potential to damage the environment.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency is not aware of any recent large scale illegal deposits of waste in the Enfield area. They have ongoing investigations into large scale organised illegal deposits of waste in other London Boroughs and are working with the Local Authority and the landowner on these incidents. Those suspected of being involved are subject to Operation Angola and an investigation into this group is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 22/02/2024 15:55:26 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark