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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

1603093

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	Apples and Pears: Somerset
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 steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to support apple and pear growers in Somerset.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	162527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>We have supported, and will continue to support, apple and pear growers through multiple avenues. This includes establishing the seasonal worker visa route, the Independent Review of Labour Shortages in the Food Supply Chain, a review of automation in horticulture, and working across Government on energy support. Support for the development of new methods and technologies is available through the Farming Innovation Programme and help to improve environment sustainability and productivity can be sought through the Farming Investment Fund. Apple and pear growers can also benefit from our Environmental Land Management schemes.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 16/03/2023 14:48:57 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541905

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	World War II: Medals
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 applications for the Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps veteran’s badge will be reopened.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps veteran’s badge scheme is currently paused due to administrative changes. As soon as these changes have been concluded, the re-opening of the scheme will be made clear on the appropriate gov.uk page and communicated to any stakeholders who have made enquiries whilst the scheme has been paused. In the meantime, Defra has been processing outstanding and extraordinary applications. We value all veterans’ valuable service to the war effort and want to ensure that HM Government continues to recognise all those who served the home front during the war.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 22/11/2022 14:21:36 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1536442

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Environmental Land Management Schemes
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 she will announce the results of the review of the Environmental Land Management Schemes; and what further measures will be included in that review to ensure sustainable food production.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	72389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2022 answer text <p>Protecting our environment is at the heart of the Government's manifesto commitments and we will always back British farmers and our rural communities. We will be continuing to phase out area-based subsidies and roll out environmental land management schemes. We will publish more details shortly.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 04/11/2022 12:06:01 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1536444

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Environmental Land Management Schemes
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 ensure that farmers are consulted on expansions to the Environment Land Management Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	72390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>Farmers and land managers are at the heart of our Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. We use a range of methods including social science research, user testing, and co-design to make sure that schemes are developed with and tested by farmers. Their input is ensuring our schemes are accessible, attractive, and fit for purpose.</p><p> </p><p>We have learnt a lot about how to successfully introduce new schemes from our experience developing the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). For example, the application process and guidance for SFI were made simpler in direct response to the farmers who tested these. To date, our work with farmers and other stakeholders has included:</p><ul><li>Practitioner Working Groups, running since March 2022, where farmers directly shape elements of policy, standards and service design.</li><li>Monthly meetings with 40 stakeholders on specific policy design related to Local Nature Recovery and Sustainable Farming Incentive.</li><li>Fortnightly stakeholder meetings to provide technical updates on the Sustainable Farming Incentive application service and receive feedback.</li><li>Testing and trialling components of the scheme and launching in a controlled way to ensure farmers receive the support they need.</li><li>Piloting our schemes like SFI with farmers to learn from their experiences to improve before schemes go live.</li></ul><p> </p><p>As the ELM scheme offer expands, we will continue to shape our proposals with farmers and land managers – including those with specific requirements, such as tenants, commoners, and those with sites of Special Scientific Interest on their land.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 03/11/2022 16:03:37 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
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

1507125

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Wines: Imports
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 the Government plans to reach a decision on the new timeline for the introduction of import labels for EU wine that was due to come into force on 1 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	51896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>I am pleased to say that a decision to extend the current easements for wine importer labelling has recently been made. The Food Information (Amendment of Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022, which will come into effect on 30 September 2022, will extend the current importer labelling arrangements for wine until 31 December 2023. This means that it will still be permissible for wine marketed in Great Britain to show an EU importer or bottler on a wine label, eliminating any financial re-labelling burden operators were previously facing. The introduction of these provisions has been warmly welcomed by the UK Wine trade.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/09/2022 13:33:40 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1352897

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
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	Phosphates: Pollution
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 help ensure that the Environment Agency has sufficient funding and resources to manage phosphate pollution in (a) Somerset and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	43615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The water environment faces multiple pressures, including from population growth and climate change. Improving our water environment will be challenging and requires a combined effort of government, industry, businesses and civil society. The Government and its agencies, including the Environment Agency, are taking action. We are committed to our goal of delivering clean and plentiful water, as set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan.</p><p>Defra and its agencies received a £1 billion increase in overall funding at the 2020 spending review so we can do more to tackle climate change and protect our environment for future generations. Discussions are underway about the allocation of funding through the upcoming spending review to support delivery of the government's environmental priorities.</p><p>In addition, from 2020 to 2025 water companies are investing £7.1 billion to protect and improve the water environment. This includes £600 million of additional funding for the environment enabled through the Government and regulators' Green Recovery scheme.</p><p>The Government is aware of the impact of phosphate and other pollutants on the degradation of waterbodies in Somerset and nationally. We are working closely with Natural England and the Environment Agency (EA) to provide the tools to address this problem. I have also been working with MHCLG on the nutrient pollution taskforce, which meets every four to six weeks, to ensure action is coordinated and joined up.</p><p>Regulations, including the Farming Rules for Water, are in place to protect the water environment from diffuse agricultural pollution.</p><p>We have increased agricultural inspections in Somerset and other affected areas to address phosphate pollution at source by recently allocating the EA an additional £1.2 million to significantly increase the number of inspectors visiting farmers. We have also escalated our efforts to help farmers take voluntary action beyond regulatory requirements to reduce water pollution by expanding the Catchment Sensitive Farming programme - jointly run by Natural England, EA and Defra - to operate across the whole of England.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 43616 43620 question first answered 09/09/2021 13:34:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1352900

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
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	Rivers: Pollution Control
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 effect on the health of England's rivers of reductions in funding allocated to the Environment Agency since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	43616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The water environment faces multiple pressures, including from population growth and climate change. Improving our water environment will be challenging and requires a combined effort of government, industry, businesses and civil society. The Government and its agencies, including the Environment Agency, are taking action. We are committed to our goal of delivering clean and plentiful water, as set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan.</p><p>Defra and its agencies received a £1 billion increase in overall funding at the 2020 spending review so we can do more to tackle climate change and protect our environment for future generations. Discussions are underway about the allocation of funding through the upcoming spending review to support delivery of the government's environmental priorities.</p><p>In addition, from 2020 to 2025 water companies are investing £7.1 billion to protect and improve the water environment. This includes £600 million of additional funding for the environment enabled through the Government and regulators' Green Recovery scheme.</p><p>The Government is aware of the impact of phosphate and other pollutants on the degradation of waterbodies in Somerset and nationally. We are working closely with Natural England and the Environment Agency (EA) to provide the tools to address this problem. I have also been working with MHCLG on the nutrient pollution taskforce, which meets every four to six weeks, to ensure action is coordinated and joined up.</p><p>Regulations, including the Farming Rules for Water, are in place to protect the water environment from diffuse agricultural pollution.</p><p>We have increased agricultural inspections in Somerset and other affected areas to address phosphate pollution at source by recently allocating the EA an additional £1.2 million to significantly increase the number of inspectors visiting farmers. We have also escalated our efforts to help farmers take voluntary action beyond regulatory requirements to reduce water pollution by expanding the Catchment Sensitive Farming programme - jointly run by Natural England, EA and Defra - to operate across the whole of England.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 43615 43620 question first answered 09/09/2021 13:34:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1352901

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
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	Phosphates: Pollution Control
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 enforcement activity the Environment Agency has undertaken to help control the release of phosphates from the agricultural sector in the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar catchment area.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	43617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>We are increasing agricultural inspections in Somerset and other affected areas, which will help address phosphate pollution at source, by recently allocating the Environment Agency (EA) an additional £1.2 million to significantly increase the number of inspectors visiting farmers. We have also escalated our efforts to help farmers take voluntary action beyond regulatory requirements to reduce water pollution by expanding the Catchment Sensitive Farming programme - jointly run by Natural England, EA and Defra - to operate across the whole of England.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/09/2021 14:15:41 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton