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1690398

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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: Domicil
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 any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	14876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Non-executive directors’ personal data, including those relating to personal taxation or status, are protected by the UK General Data Protection Regulation. Collection of personal data on non-dom status is not routinely collected and is generally not required for making public appointments. If any such data was held it could only be published if doing so was in compliance with data protection law. Non-executive board members are not employees of Defra and act in an advisory capacity. Data relating to public appointments are covered by the Public Appointments Privacy Statement found here <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk%2Fprivacy&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccorporatepqs%40defra.gov.uk%7C3b8dd49f8f274f8415bc08dc32f585a7%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638441277283262452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=yzecFJreZTklJHI2vGrddqtmu4AkeV6n4UZYvCu3zIs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/privacy</a>. A register of Defra board members’ interests is published on gov.uk and is updated regularly, this can be found at: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdefra-register-of-board-members-interests%2Fdefra-register-of-board-members-interests-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccorporatepqs%40defra.gov.uk%7C3b8dd49f8f274f8415bc08dc32f585a7%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638441277283277852%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=dK7n2ATu5%2Bdh5z1PjqQjTCpcft7%2BM2UZHyGfMxl1yg8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defra-register-of-board-members-interests/defra-register-of-board-members-interests-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:46:00 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1690538

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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	Sustainable Farming Incentive: Suffolk Coastal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive were (a) made and (b) approved in Suffolk Coastal constituency in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
uin	14858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The Sustainable Farming Incentive has a rolling application window and as of 21 February the RPA has received 55 applications of which 39 agreements have been offered and 34 accepted for the Suffolk Coastal Constituency.</p><p> </p><p>The SFI23 application window opened in mid-September and there is a rolling window to apply which allows farm businesses to apply when they are ready to do so. We have a number of farm businesses that have started an application but not yet submitted.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:35:23 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

1689246

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	Members: Correspondence
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 he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Stirling of 13 September 2023 on a shock collar ban.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	14172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>I apologise for the delay in responding to the hon. Member. A reply will be sent in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:29:07 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1689266

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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 guarantee funding for farming subsidies after 2025.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Steven Bonnar
uin	14189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Defra has guaranteed the annual budget for the farming sector for the life of this Parliament. Future budgets will be decided by future governments.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 13:22:45 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4748 label Biography information for Steven Bonnar

1689331

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	Honey: Labelling
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 require food labelling for honey to display the proportion of honey contained.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	14251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only.</p><p> </p><p>A person must not use “honey” in trade as the name of a product if the product is not honey.</p><p> </p><p>Consequently, for a product to be called “Honey” it must be 100% honey and comply with the appropriate compositional criteria for “honey” specified in Schedule 1 of The Honey (England) Regulations 2015.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 12:20:05 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1688540

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Food Supply
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 his Department is taking to improve food security.
tabling member constituency	Penrith and The Border
tabling member printed	Dr Neil Hudson
uin	13818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The UK has a highly resilient food supply chain, as demonstrated throughout the Covid-19 response. It is well equipped to deal with situations with the potential to cause disruption.</p><p> </p><p>Our high degree of food security is built on supply from diverse sources; strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes. We produce 60% of all the food we need, and 73% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for all or part of the year, and these figures have changed little over the last 20 years.</p><p> </p><p>UK consumers have access through international trade to food products that cannot be produced here, or at least not on a year-round basis. This supplements domestic production, and also ensures that any disruption from risks such as adverse weather or disease does not affect the UK's overall security of supply.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has well established ways of working with the industry and across Government to monitor risks that may arise. This includes extensive, regular and ongoing engagement in preparedness for, and response to, issues with the potential to cause disruption to food supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising the importance of food security, in the Agriculture Act 2020, the Government made a commitment to produce an assessment of our food security at least once every three years. The first UK Food Security Report was published in December 2021. The next Food Security Report will be published by the end of 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The Farm to Fork Summit also took place on 16 May 2023. Discussions focused on bringing great British food to the world; building resilience and transparency; strengthening sustainability and productivity across the supply chain; and growing an innovative, skilled food and farming sector. Engagement with the entire supply chain continues as we deliver the commitments from the summit.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/02/2024 10:37:31 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4853 label Biography information for Dr Neil Hudson

1688541

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Horses: Exports
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 stop the export of horses to Europe for slaughter.
tabling member constituency	Penrith and The Border
tabling member printed	Dr Neil Hudson
uin	13819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is banning the export of horses for slaughter through the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill which is progressing through Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/02/2024 10:13:25 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4853 label Biography information for Dr Neil Hudson

1688564

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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: Health and Safety
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 all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	13748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Yes, all buildings and workplaces which staff from Defra occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:17:47 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1688581

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Dangerous Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much revenue was raised from charging for an exemption certificate as part of the American XL Bully ban; and whether this money has been ring-fenced for dog control initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	13712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>To apply for a certificate of exemption, owners were required to pay an application fee of £92.40. This fee is not intended to generate a profit and covers the administrative costs for the life of the dog, including processing the application and lifetime record management.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:13:28 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1688616

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Farmers: Mental Health
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 he has made of the adequacy of his Department's guidance to officials visiting farms about (a) farmers' mental health, (b) signs of concern, (c) early intervention and (d) avenues of support.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	Sarah Dyke
uin	13841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Mental health provision is a matter for the Department for Health and Social Care. In working with farmers Defra takes very seriously the need to support farmers' health.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of giving field officers the appropriate tools to be able to support farmers. There are processes in place across Defra to ensure officials visiting farms have adequate guidance about farmers’ mental health, signs of concern, early intervention and avenues of support.</p><p> </p><p>The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has rolled out mental health training for new and existing field officers and visit support staff, which all staff in RPA will have completed by the end of March 2024. Alongside this, staff are also having training on customer vulnerability which will help them to be able to effectively signpost to farming welfare organisations. RPA helpline staff have all undertaken mental health training which is in the process of being refreshed in close collaboration with the Farming Community Network (FCN). Similar training is in place for all Environment Agency officers who are engaged in regulatory inspections of farms, and Animal and Plant Health Agency staff are also engaging with local FCN representatives to share best practice.</p><p> </p><p>We think we can do even more to make sure that we provide the right help and support to farmers when they need it. The Secretary of State has announced that work will be taken forward across all of Defra group to improve the relationships with farmers. As part of this work, we will explore opportunities to make our processes and training more consistent.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 11:06:20 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4995 label Biography information for Sarah Dyke