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1641217

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date	02/06/2023
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	Nature Conservation: Voluntary Work
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 her Department has had with wildlife trusts to help support engaging with nature through volunteering.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	187256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>Our aim is for more people, from all backgrounds, to engage with and spend time in green and blue spaces in their everyday lives. We recognise the important role that volunteers play in protecting and enhancing the natural environment. The Landscapes Review has proposed expanding volunteering in our protected landscapes, and we fully support this initiative.</p><p> </p><p>We are actively exploring various avenues to support and promote volunteer engagement in nature conservation. For example, through our Access For All programme, we are facilitating the purchase of specialist equipment that enables volunteers of all abilities to take part in conservation activities. This not only helps protect and enhance the natural environment but also contributes to the volunteers' mental and physical well-being. The Wildlife Trusts are a key member of our Access and Engagement Forum, where we discuss the progress and development of this programme amongst others.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to collaborating with a wide range of organisations, including wildlife trusts, to encourage and facilitate volunteering opportunities in the natural world.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 09/06/2023 11:49:34 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1603092

registered interest
date	10/03/2023
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	Birds: Conservation
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 protect the habitat of woodcock birds.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	162526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>We are expanding and improving woodcock habitat through grant schemes funded by both the Countryside Stewardship scheme and the Nature for Climate Fund. These grants include the Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds, which aim to restore vulnerable woodland habitats and improve biodiversity, as well as the England Woodland Creation Offer. In addition, we are introducing new environmental land management schemes, which will pay for activities to create, manage and restore habitats such as woodland, connect isolated habitats to form networks, and other species management actions, all of which will benefit birds such as woodcock.</p><p>Woodcock also benefit from England’s extensive network of protected sites for wildlife such as sites of special scientific interest.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 17/03/2023 11:05:48 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1519839

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Sewage: 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, with reference to the policy paper entitled Storm overflows discharge reduction plan, published by his Department on 26 August 2022, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) accelerating the timescale targets and (b) bringing forward the date of the 2027 review.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	59939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>HM Government is prioritising action to improve water quality, including action to address storm overflows. Water companies are investing £3.1 billion to improve storm overflows between 2020 and 2025, and we continue to work with them to accelerate progress wherever possible.</p><p> </p><p>The targets in the storm overflows discharge reduction plan are ambitious, and time bound, allowing for the water industry to deliver traditional solutions and bring forward innovative nature-based solutions where appropriate. We want the best solutions with the most benefits to our environment, communities and climate to be taken forward, and these will require careful planning by the industry: HM Government must consider the capacity of the supply chains to deliver in line with our targets and timelines, and the disruption that constructing new infrastructure brings to society as well as our environmental ambitions.</p><p> </p><p>HM Government is committing to review the targets in the plan in 2027. This will occur ahead of the 2029-2034 water company planning cycle (PR29) once new information, including from companies’ business plans, is available. This will allow us to establish if companies can go further and faster to achieve the storm overflow targets in this Plan without having a disproportionate impact on consumers bills. This will also feed into broader reporting mechanisms under the Environment Act 2021, such as through the Environmental Improvement Plan, to monitor and assess how this and other actions are contributing to the broader recovery of river and water habitats.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 18/10/2022 13:41:07 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1433743

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Events Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of specialist event haulage vehicles, as defined in his Department's recent consultation on Support for specialist event hauliers working on cross border tours, in the UK in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	126761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not generate annual estimates of the number of specialist haulage vehicles under the draft definition in its recent consultation on support for specialist hauliers working on cross border tours.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 01/03/2022 12:28:54 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1433744

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Events Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of specialist event haulage vehicles, as defined in his Department's recent consultation on Support for specialist event hauliers working on cross border tours, in the UK since January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	126762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not collect data on the different sub-sectors of haulage operators through the vehicle operator licence system, so no assessment of trends in the number of specialist event haulage vehicles is available. The Department is carefully considering responses to its recent consultation on support for specialist hauliers working on cross border tours and will set out proposed next steps in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 01/03/2022 12:30:58 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton