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1678999

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Food: 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, what steps his Department is taking to help support large local authorities to introduce food waste collections by 2026.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	7640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Any new financial burdens introduced through new statutory duties on local authorities will be assessed in accordance with the New Burdens Doctrine and the net reasonable cost covered by the Government. Given the additional costs involved in separate food waste collection, the Government will ensure that local authorities are resourced to meet any reasonable new burdens arising from this policy. We will work with the Waste and Resources Action Programme and other partners to provide guidance on best practice, and work with local authorities to help them to deliver services to all householders.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/01/2024 15:43:46 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1679024

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Flood Control: Maps
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 he has had recent discussions with the Environment Agency on the (a) accuracy of flood maps and (b) extent to which those maps take into account an area's flood defences.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	7476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Defra’s arm’s length bodies, including the Environment Agency, on a range of issues. This includes many topics on flood and coastal erosion risk management such as the Environment Agency’s flood risk maps and models.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/01/2024 15:16:03 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1679072

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Elephants: Poaching
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 his Department is taking steps with (a) international counterparts, (b) charities and (c) rangers to help tackle the poaching of elephants.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	7628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK is committed to combatting the illegal wildlife trade (IWT). We are increasing our funding and will invest a further £30 million between 2022 and 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Defra Ministers and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office officials at Posts regularly discuss important conservation matters including poaching of elephants. For example, the UK signed a letter of intent in December 2023 with Cameroon’s Minister of the Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development to deliver the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides support for a variety of different projects that support rangers and protect elephants through the IWT Challenge Fund and direct programming, which are detailed below.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Defra’s grant scheme – the IWT Challenge Fund – has supported projects to change behaviours, strengthen wildlife crime legislation, and help communities to protect the wildlife they rely on for their livelihoods. More information is available at <a href="https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Our support for rangers includes the British military’s Defra-funded Counter IWT Ranger Training Programme, which has helped wildlife parks work together to strengthen law enforcement and share information to disrupt smuggling and poaching across Africa.</li><li>The UK is investing at least £12 million Overseas Development Assistance between 2024 and 2030 in Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo through the £100 million Biodiverse Landscapes Fund. This programme aims to protect biodiversity and reduce poverty, with measures that intend to reduce human wildlife conflict and combat the illegal wildlife trade.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Information on total number of rangers is not available as we do not aggregate this data.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 7627 7629 question first answered 10/01/2024 14:02:29 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1679073

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Elephants: Poaching
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 rangers received funding from his Department to help tackle the poaching of elephants in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	7629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK is committed to combatting the illegal wildlife trade (IWT). We are increasing our funding and will invest a further £30 million between 2022 and 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Defra Ministers and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office officials at Posts regularly discuss important conservation matters including poaching of elephants. For example, the UK signed a letter of intent in December 2023 with Cameroon’s Minister of the Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development to deliver the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides support for a variety of different projects that support rangers and protect elephants through the IWT Challenge Fund and direct programming, which are detailed below.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Defra’s grant scheme – the IWT Challenge Fund – has supported projects to change behaviours, strengthen wildlife crime legislation, and help communities to protect the wildlife they rely on for their livelihoods. More information is available at <a href="https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Our support for rangers includes the British military’s Defra-funded Counter IWT Ranger Training Programme, which has helped wildlife parks work together to strengthen law enforcement and share information to disrupt smuggling and poaching across Africa.</li><li>The UK is investing at least £12 million Overseas Development Assistance between 2024 and 2030 in Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo through the £100 million Biodiverse Landscapes Fund. This programme aims to protect biodiversity and reduce poverty, with measures that intend to reduce human wildlife conflict and combat the illegal wildlife trade.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Information on total number of rangers is not available as we do not aggregate this data.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 7627 7628 question first answered 10/01/2024 14:02:29 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1679075

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Ivory: Trade
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 tackle the illegal trade of ivory.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	7630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to protecting endangered animals and plants from poaching and illegal trade to benefit wildlife, local communities and the economy while protecting global security.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Ivory Act 2018 came into force in June 2022, making it illegal to deal in items made of or containing elephant ivory, and in May this year we announced that the Act will be extended to other ivory bearing species. The Act contains offences for those who breach the ban, with a mix of civil and criminal sanctions, with a maximum fine of £250,000 or five years’ imprisonment.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government plays a leading role in tackling illegal wildlife trade and we are increasing funding by a further £30 million between 2022 and 2025. We have committed funding through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund on multiple projects to support protections for elephants, including £1 million to PAMS Foundation to strengthen law enforcement in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi to secure effective wildlife criminal prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 08/01/2024 15:12:57 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1679111

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Sustainable Farming Incentive
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 his Department spent in sustainable farming incentive payments excluding pilot schemes in the financial year 2022-2023.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	7534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The accounting treatment for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) means that spend on agreements that started in 2022/2023 falls under 2023/2024 budget. There is therefore no SFI spend recorded for financial year 2022/2023.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/01/2024 13:24:15 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1679112

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
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 he plans to increase payment rates for the (a) Higher Level Stewardship and (b) Upland Entry Level Stewardship schemes.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	7535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>We do not have plans to update prices for Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) or Upland Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) agreements. This is because these agreements are made on a whole farm basis and payments work differently in those schemes.</p><p> </p><p>From the 1st of January 2023 we made it possible for customers in HLS leave their agreements early, without recovery of payments, and enter another land management scheme and we will continue to support these moves. The new scheme must be of equivalent or greater environmental value than the HLS component of their existing agreement. Agreement holders can also apply for a Countryside Stewardship, Sustainable Farming Incentive and/or a Landscape Recovery agreement for any land that does not already contain a HLS option, they can be next to each other but must not overlap.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 16/01/2024 11:51:24 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1679113

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Sustainable Farming Incentive
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 he plans to introduce 10 year sustainable farming incentive agreements.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	7536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>Our aim is for the Sustainable Farming incentive (SFI) to enable as many farmers as possible to adopt and maintain sustainable farming practices that support farm productivity whilst protecting and enhancing the natural environment. These include actions that focus on improving management of soils and nutrients. The 3-year agreement term in SFI supports this aim, building on recommendations from farming organisations and tenant farmers (including feedback from the Rock Review). Longer term 5- or 10-year agreements are also available in Countryside Stewardship for specific actions, to manage, restore or create important habitats like grassland or in coastal areas.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 16/01/2024 11:42:58 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1679114

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	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, whether he plans to ensure that farmers are able to (a) access and (b) use capital grants.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	7537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>We have a range of capital grant offers which are readily accessible to our farmers, foresters and land managers to help improve our environment by planting trees and hedges, reducing air pollution and improving water quality. We also offer opportunities for them to invest in the equipment, technology and infrastructure that will help their businesses to prosper, while improving their productivity and enhancing the environment. These grants will continue to be available next year.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/01/2024 15:08:57 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1679139

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Waste Management
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 his Department's guidance entitled Waste collection services: guidance for local authorities, published on 23 July 2021, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing statutory guidance for local authorities on sorting waste materials.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	7637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>We recently consulted on the content of the statutory guidance for Simpler Recycling. We will publish our final statutory guidance once the regulations relating to Simpler Recycling have been made.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/01/2024 15:06:23 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse