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1694709

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Sugar Beet: Neonicotinoids
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government with regard to the ban on the use of neonicotinoids, what is their rationale for allowing a derogation in 2024 year for sugar beet growers; and for how many years an emergency authorisation can be in place.
tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
uin	HL3120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>A statement of reasons for the emergency authorisation of Cruiser SB in 2024 <del class="ministerial">is </del> <ins class="ministerial">can be found</ins> attached to this answer.</p><p>An emergency authorisation cannot run from year to year. This authorisation is for the 2024 sugar beet crop only and is valid for 120 days. Use of Cruiser SB or a similar product in any subsequent years would require the submission of a further application. Any future applications would be carefully assessed against the regulatory framework for emergency authorisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 21/03/2024 17:37:37 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2024 17:43:03 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller attachment 1 file name HL3120 attachment.pdf title List of Reasons previous answer version 25323 answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

1672762

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
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	Climate Change Convention: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will include experts on migratory species from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee among the UK delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28 UAE).
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We set out how we will deliver outcomes for food, farming and the environment through our Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes in an update in January. This can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fenvironmental-land-management-update-how-government-will-pay-for-land-based-environment-and-climate-goods-and-services%2Fenvironmental-land-management-elm-update-how-government-will-pay-for-land-based-environment-and-climate-goods-and-services&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C201c47f9efa24747abb008dbeba4c92b%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638362865203198588%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=O29IdmFHlWuXGzFt0XYQrmyrUT9G2729wAf3bdoPLhg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Environmental Land Management (ELM) update: how government will pay for land-based environment and climate goods and services</a>. This includes our plans to expand and refine the schemes to contribute more to our environmental targets, including on nature recovery, and to target funding towards actions in places where they can have the biggest impacts, in ways that are joined up across larger areas, and that are designed to deliver the required results.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Since then we have launched the 2023 Sustainable Farming Incentive and further rounds of Countryside Stewardship and Landscape Recovery. We will publish more details on the 2024 offer in due course.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Joint Nature Conservation Committee staff, including experts on migratory species, are not part of the UK Government delegation to United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28. Joint Nature Conservation Committee staff will remotely provide scientific advice in advance and in real time as requested by the delegation and support side events online in the US Pavilion and the Virtual Ocean Pavilion. Joint Nature Conservation Committee staff have also provided pre-recorded videos to the UK Overseas Territories Association to support their side event in the UK Pavilion.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 04/12/2023 12:11:56 question first ministerially corrected 20/12/2023 15:28:27 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 4749 answering member printed Lord Benyon answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1565229

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	River Tees: Pyridine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in their investigation into pyridine in the River Tees.
tabling member printed	Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
uin	HL4529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>Defra is not progressing any further investigative work into the presence of pyridine in the River Tees at this time. We are however finalising the development and validation of a detection method to reliably quantify the amounts of pyridine in crab tissues. Once completed, we will use this test to assess the levels of pyridine in environmental crab tissues associated with the impacted and non-impacted areas, to better understand the significance of pyridine in crustacea, including the potential for its endogenous production post-mortem.</p><p>The Government Chief Scientific Adviser has conveyed an independent external expert panel to review all the scientific evidence relating to this issue and report published on Friday 20 January<ins class="ministerial">.</ins></p><p>Defra scientists continue to engage with the wider academic community with regard to ongoing research and development work into the ecological status of the Tees and the wider North Sea.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 31/01/2023 17:00:55 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 11:22:23 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 51824 answering member printed Lord Benyon answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4150 label Biography information for Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

1546652

registered interest
date	29/11/2022
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	Horticulture
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to deliver a horticulture strategy for England, with particular reference to access to affordable energy, and the cap on the Seasonal Worker Scheme.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL3858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>We are not developing a specific strategy. We will continue to support the sector to operate, including by establishing the seasonal worker visa route<ins class="ministerial">.</ins><del class="ministerial">,</del></p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 30/01/2023 11:28:09 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 17:43:44 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 50945 answering member printed Lord Benyon answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1542575

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
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	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the seasonal workers’ scheme.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Southwark
uin	HL3436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">The Seasonal Worker visa route was specifically designed to support the horticulture sector in the United Kingdom where growers typically require higher volumes of labour, for relatively short-term periods of time, in line with seasonal production peaks.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As announced on 24 December 2021, the Seasonal Worker visa route will continue to operate until at least the end of 2024. A total of 40,000 visas are available in 2022, of which 38,000 were for horticulture with the remaining 2,000 allocated to poultry workers in the run up to Christmas. HM Government is carefully considering the position on visa quotas for 2023 and we will say more in due course.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">HM Government closely monitors the Seasonal Worker visa route to ensure its effective operation, and works closely with industry to make sure that the workforce requirements for the food and farming sector are understood across government.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">Over recent months the Government, predominantly through the Department for Transport and Defra, has had a sustained dialogue with haulage companies and other organisations involved in the goods supply chain, as well as ministers and officials in the Devolved Administrations. This has included ministerial and industry roundtables, industry summits and tailored workshops.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Through this dialogue, we have been able to strengthen communication between government and industry and discuss issues and solutions, on a range of matters that have the potential to cause disruption to UK supply networks, especially with regard to the supply of food. This includes logistics issues at ports of entry for goods entering the UK, labour shortages across the supply chain (particularly lorry drivers), and the domestic supply of carbon dioxide.</del></p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 29/11/2022 14:34:11 question first ministerially corrected 30/11/2022 11:49:11 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 37967 answering member printed Lord Benyon answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4345 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Southwark

1540880

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
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	Compost
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to make (1) regulatory, or (2) other, responses to findings in the Big Compost Study which concluded that 60 per cent of items sold as "home compostable" did not degrade in homes under real world conditions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL3266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>HM Government has no immediate plans to regulate in this area but welcomes the findings from UCL’s study into the home composting of plastics and will use this to inform our evidence base.</p><p> </p><p>The study has shown that home composting is not a viable destination for managing plastic waste and this echoes HM Government’s existing position to prioritise the reduction, reuse and recycling of plastics before anything else.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2021 we published our response to the call for evidence on the need for standards for bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics. The Government response acknowledges that compostable plastics must be treated in industrial composting facilities to be broken down and, when processed incorrectly, can be a source of microplastics and contaminate recycling streams. Therefore, our focus will be on reducing unnecessary consumption and working towards a circular economy, not composting of plastics.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 23/11/2022 11:52:27 question first ministerially corrected 23/11/2022 15:04:17 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 36480 answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble answering member 4161
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1540907

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
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	Water Companies: Fines
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to reports that the fines paid by water companies in England and Wales will be reimbursed to customers, whether the bills that customers receive will be itemised to show the reduction on their individual bills.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>HM Government welcomes the robust regulatory response from Ofwat to incentivise water companies to deliver for their customers, the environment and wider society.</p><p> </p><p>The financial penalties imposed for missing performance commitments will rightly be returned to customers in the next financial year. There is no requirement from HM Government for companies to itemise these reductions on individual customer bills and individual company billing practices will differ.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 23/11/2022 11:52:50 question first ministerially corrected 23/11/2022 15:04:11 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 36487 answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble answering member 4161
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1491768

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Avian Influenza
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the current outbreak of avian flu on wild bird populations.
tabling member printed	Lord Randall of Uxbridge
uin	HL2036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2022 answer text <p>Defra is working with Devolved Administrations, Arm’s Length Bodies and NGOs to monitor and respond to the effect of avian influenza on wild birds. This includes providing advice on mitigation measures that can be put in place to both protect public health and the impact on wild birds where possible. However, avian influenza is a natural transmission process in wild birds and there is limited evidence that mitigation measures are effective at reducing transmission of avian influenza between wild birds. We will, however, continue to take whatever action we can, in accordance with international best practice and the latest evidence.</p><p> </p><p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) operates a robust programme of wild bird surveillance across Great Britain and engages in year-round avian influenza surveillance of dead wild birds submitted via public reports and warden patrols. Between 25 October 2021 and 22 July 2022, over 3,000 wild birds have been tested. Of these, 1454 have tested positive for H5 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). There have been findings in 347 different locations in 61 different species in 79 different counties. A report (updated weekly) of findings of HPAI in wild birds is published by <del class="ministerial">the UK Health Security Agency</del> <ins class="ministerial">APHA</ins> on GOV.UK together with <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Favian-influenza-bird-flu-in-europe&amp;data=05%7C01%7CEDC.outbreak.comms%40defra.gov.uk%7C380d7be3ec874a11f01a08da68949a2c%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C637937284688878079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=YVSU6s18f0smWzoU31zn4Q32SxoA87MlTk%2B81hGSAFY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">outbreak and risk assessments</a>. A copy of the 18 July outbreak assessment is attached to this answer</p><p> </p><p>Unprecedented outbreaks of avian influenza are being seen in both Great Britain and Europe as well as North America. In Great Britain there have been large numbers of deaths associated with positive findings of avian influenza in breeding populations of seabird species. Including those listed as <a href="https://britishbirds.co.uk/sites/default/files/BB_Dec21-BoCC5-IUCN2.pdf" target="_blank">GB Birds of Conservation Concern (BoCC5)</a> (copy attached). The impact on Roseate Terns (red-listed BoCC5 species) and Sandwich Terns (amber-listed BoCC5 species) colonies in particular are of significant concern.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s seabirds are an important part of our natural heritage, and their protection is a high priority for the government. Defra recognises the significant threat HPAI is posing to our seabird populations Further to the existing Joint Nature Conservation Committee Seabird Monitoring Programme, Natural England has set up a seabird reporting system to collate records of mortality levels in key seabird colonies which will be used to support assessments of the impact on populations and inform recovery programmes. Equivalent systems have been established in Wales and Scotland enabling data to be readily compared across the administrations.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon attachment 1 file name Updated Outbreak Assessment #30 HPAI in the UK and Europe 18 July 2022.pdf title HPAI outbreak assessment 18 July 2022 2 file name BB 2021 DECEMBER (Med-res).pdf title Birds of Conservation Concern Dec 2021 question first answered 28/07/2022 13:40:27 question first ministerially corrected 29/07/2022 09:01:23 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 16176 answering member printed Lord Benyon attachment 1 file name Updated Outbreak Assessment #30 HPAI in the UK and Europe 18 July 2022.pdf title HPAI outbreak assessment 18 July 2022 2 file name BB 2021 DECEMBER (Med-res).pdf title Birds of Conservation Concern Dec 2021 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	209 label Biography information for Lord Randall of Uxbridge

1460202

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Soil
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their Soil Health Action Plan for England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL7914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. <ins class="ministerial">Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 28/04/2022 11:38:03 question first ministerially corrected 28/04/2022 11:44:50 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park previous answer version 67690 answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1273654

registered interest
date	05/01/2021
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	Water Companies: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish an annual league table to assess the performance of water companies in addressing water leaks and wastage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL11769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2021 answer text <p>The Discover Water website publishes up to date records of water company performance on leakage. Details can be found in the <ins class="ministerial">PDF </ins>attachment and at the following link: <a href="https://discoverwater.co.uk/leaking-pipes" target="_blank">https://discoverwater.co.uk/leaking-pipes</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 19/01/2021 17:49:56 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2021 17:57:32 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park attachment 1 file name PQ HL11769 Attachment - Discover Water.pdf title HL11769 - Discover Water Attachment previous answer version 75426 answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick