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1287033

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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	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, what progress he has made on ensuring that organic farming standards are recognised and included in the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	154671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text The Sustainable Farming Incentive is intended to be open and accessible to all farmers, and to fairly compensate farmers for environmental goods generated across all land types and farm management systems, including organic farms. This year we will be piloting the Sustainable Farming Incentive, and as part of that we will be working with hundreds of farmers on issues such as ensuring that it works for all farming systems. answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 01/03/2021 15:42:49 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1455126

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2022
	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	Office for Environmental Protection: Finance
	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 adequacy of funding levels for the Office of Environmental Protection.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	148386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text The Secretary of State for Defra reviewed the proposal for the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) funding levels following an internal assurance process. He has subsequently set out the budget for the OEP for 2022/23 in a written ministerial statement on 31 March and is satisfied that this funding is sufficient to enable the OEP to effectively carry out its statutory functions. answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 05/04/2022 14:34:21 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1433789

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2022
	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	Bats: 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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the use of bat boxes near new developments to help protect bats.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	126573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text Bat boxes are used within the development context as part of the mitigation measures employed to maintain the conservation status of bats. Recent studies have provided some positive evidence of the effectiveness of bat boxes in the short term and immediate vicinity after development. Evidence of effectiveness in the longer term can be impacted by further works, such as street lighting and further development in the area. answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/03/2022 17:58:34 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1247188

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	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	Domestic Waste: 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, how many local authorities (a) charge for and (b) offer a free garden waste disposal service; and of those that charge for that service, what the average charge is per household in England.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	109362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text As of 2018/19, 319 local authorities in England (98%) collect garden waste. 213 local authorities (65%) charge for garden waste collection as a subscription service, and the remainder of local authorities collecting garden waste provide a free collection service. For local authorities that charge for a garden waste collection service, the mean average charge per household in England is £43.23 per year (WRAP survey data). answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/11/2020 11:03:53 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1650024

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	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	Water Companies: Finance
	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 help improve the financial stability of the water industry.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	192416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <ul><li>The sector as a whole is financially resilient. Water companies are responsible for ensuring that they remain financially resilient, however, over recent years, as investment requirements have risen, Ofwat has taken further steps to strengthen the financial resilience of companies. This includes increasing its financial monitoring, improving levels of reporting transparency and strengthening the ring-fence licence conditions, which ensure the regulated company maintains sufficient financial and management resources which enable it to carry out its functions in a sustainable manner.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Government and Ofwat take the financial resilience of the water sector very seriously. Government gave new powers to Ofwat through the Environment Act and in March 2023, Ofwat set out new measures to increase financial resilience in the sector. This includes additional powers to stop water companies making dividend payments earlier if the company's financial resilience is at risk.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Ofwat has also strengthened the existing dividend licence condition so that there is an explicit requirement for companies to measure performance by reference to delivery for customers and the environment. Companies will need to demonstrate this in their annual reporting on dividends and dividend decisions.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In addition, Ofwat has also tightened up the measures around water company executives’ bonuses so that Ofwat will make shareholders pay for bonuses, not the customer, where there is poor performance.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/07/2023 10:08:24 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1650287

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2023
	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	Marine Environment
	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 (a) protect and (b) restore marine (i) habitats and (ii) wildlife.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	192495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <ul><li>The recently published EIP sets out our focus on enhancing nature in marine and coastal environments, including the steps we are taking to restore and protect marine habitats and marine wildlife.</li><li>These include delivering the UK Marine Strategy, which sets our ambition for Good Environmental Status (GES) across our seas.</li><li>To help achieve GES we have created a series of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to protect and restore our marine biodiversity. We are focused on strengthening the protection of this extensive network of 178 sites covering 40% of English waters, which represents the range of species and habitats found in our seas.</li><li>To complement the MPA network, the first three Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) in English waters came into force on 5 July 2023. HPMAs will provide the highest levels of protection in our seas, allowing nature to fully recover to a more natural state and helping the ecosystem to thrive.</li><li>A number of estuarine and coastal habitat restoration initiatives are also underway including the Environment Agency’s Restoring Meadow, Marsh and Reef (ReMeMaRe) initiative which aims to reverse centuries of coastal habitat decline by restoring seagrass meadows, saltmarsh and native oyster reefs to bring benefits to people and nature.</li><li>In addition, the government’s £80m Green Recovery Challenge Fund has supported a range of nature recovery projects across England, some which have included saltmarsh and seagrass restoration.</li><li>We also protect marine wildlife in a number of other ways in our domestic waters. This includes being fully committed to tackling accidental bycatch in fisheries, which is one of the greatest threats faced by sensitive marine species such as cetaceans.</li><li>In 2021, we introduced new rules making it a mandatory requirement under fishing vessel licence conditions for fishers to report any marine mammal bycatch to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). The Marine Wildlife Bycatch Mitigation Initiative sets out how the UK will achieve its ambitions to minimise and, where possible, eliminate the bycatch (accidental capture) and entanglement of sensitive marine species in UK fisheries.</li><li>To help reduce disturbance to marine wildlife we published the Marine and Coastal Wildlife Code on 24 May.</li><li>We are also working to reduce the harmful impacts on marine wildlife and habitats arising from plastic pollution. We have taken measures to target some of the most commonly littered plastic items, such as our carrier bag charge and our bans on a range of single-use plastic items. Our restrictions on straws, stirrers and cotton buds have had a big impact – these items used to appear in ‘top 10 littered items’ lists, but this is no longer the case. We have also taken action on microbeads in rinse off cosmetics, plastic pellets and ghost gear.</li><li>Internationally, we are also leading global efforts to protect the ocean and champion the GBF Target 3 to effectively conserve and manage at least 30% of the land and 30% of the ocean globally by 2030 (30by30). This includes through our role as Ocean Co-Chair of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature &amp; People, and our leadership of the Global Ocean Alliance.</li><li>The adoption of the Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement on 19 June will also lead to much greater protection for the two-thirds of the global ocean that lies beyond national jurisdiction, playing a key role in achieving the 30by30 target. The UK will sign the Agreement early and work to ratify as soon as practicable, whilst supporting others to do the same.</li><li>The UK’s Blue Planet Fund, a £500 million programme, supports developing countries to protect the marine environment and reduce poverty, by tackling threats to ocean health such as illegal fishing, pollution and climate change; and at the UN Ocean conference in 2022, we committed up to £100 million of Blue Planet Funding to support the implementation, management and enforcement of Marine Protected Areas.</li></ul> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/07/2023 12:27:05 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1644371

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2023
	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	Dogs: 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, how many dogs have been imported under the Pet Travel Scheme since December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	189467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of Dogs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2019 only</p></td><td><p>21,013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>186,629</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>165,871</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>282,909</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is a summary of animals entering Great Britain under the Pet Travel Scheme via an approved route. It does not include pet animals that enter other parts of the UK (such as Northern Ireland or the Channel Islands) or pet animals that enter Great Britain from other parts of the UK. It does not include any animals that enter Great Britain under the Pet Travel Scheme from the Republic of Ireland (as these movements do not need to follow an approved route).</p><p>The data regarding the Pet Travel Scheme covers pets entering Great Britain and is based on information provided by checkers employed by approved carriers of pet animals. This data can be subject to change as often throughput data from carriers can be received late.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/06/2023 13:10:18 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1518850

	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	Environment Agency: Staff
	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 the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Environment Agency from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	58926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total employees (payroll employees only)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>9,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>10,103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>9,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>9,873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>10,326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>10,201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>10,378</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>10,890</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In 2017/18, 895.9 FTE were TUPE-ed (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)) to Defra.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment controls were implemented in 2020/21 to mitigate impacts from COVID and other cost pressures.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2021/22, recruitment continues to support an increased capital programme and new duties funded through Spending Review 20 and Flood Recovery funding, as well as ongoing support to Defra group on priority work linked to COVID management.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 18/10/2022 15:01:16 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1173944

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	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	Recycling: Birmingham
	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 estimate her Department has made of the recycling rates in Birmingham in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
	uin	8966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting by Birmingham City Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>26.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16:</p></td><td><p>22.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17:</p></td><td><p>24.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18:</p></td><td><p>20.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>22.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/02/2020 17:25:08 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

1644372

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2023
	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	Dogs: 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, how many dogs have been imported under the Balai Directive since December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	189468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of dogs imported under the Balai Directive (EU)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2019</p></td><td><p>2,938</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>60,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>72,766</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>37,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023 (to May 2023)</p></td><td><p>15,152</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This information is drawn from the external TRACES and IPAFFS online systems not directly controlled by the department.</p><p> </p><p>TRACES (Trade Control and Expert System)</p><p>IPAFFS (Import of products, animals, food and feed system)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/06/2023 12:47:42 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill