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1279009

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2021
	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	Oilseed Rape: Pesticides
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to promote the development of environmentally friendly pesticides to help support the domestic farming of rapeseed.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	911177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The consultation on the National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides outlines how the Government will support the development of nature-based solutions, low toxicity methods, and biopesticides, in line with the principles of Integrated Pest Management.</p><p> </p><p>In partnership with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, Defra is funding field trials for Integrated Pest Management in oilseed rape.</p><p> </p><p>Defra also supports research on the genetic improvement of rapeseed to increase resilience to pests.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 21/01/2021 15:36:32 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1364190

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2021
	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	Meat: Consumption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to promote the consumption of British meat.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	903879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>We want people at home and abroad to be lining up to Buy British. Our farmers produce high-welfare, high-quality meat and we are committed to supporting them. Our new farming schemes will offer the opportunity to move towards a more pastural system, producing higher quality meat that is reared in a sustainable way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 01/11/2021 08:14:08 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1586133

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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	Seating: 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, whether she has taken steps to encourage local authorities to help businesses managing domestic seating waste containing persistent organic pollutants.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	147079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Agency are working to ensure that items of waste containing POPs are treated in a way that destroys the POPs content, thus eliminating the risk they pose to human health and the environment. Items of waste containing POPs cannot be landfilled, recycled, or prepared for reuse; the POP content must be incinerated to destroy the POPs.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency is working to bring local authorities and the waste sector into compliance with these requirements. Core guidance on how to comply with this legislation was published on GOV.UK when this legislation was introduced in 2016 and 2019. The Environment Agency and Defra have been working with stakeholders, including local authority representatives, from early 2021, to help them prepare to comply. This engagement will continue as the Environment Agency activity develops. Additional guidance on how to manage waste upholstered domestic seating has been in development with stakeholders since winter 2021. This was issued to local authorities and their contractors in August 2022 and published on GOV.UK on 19 December 2022. The Environment Agency will continue to maintain and update this guidance as needed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that this is particularly challenging for some local authorities due to their geography and infrastructure. In December 2022 the Environment Agency published three Regulatory Positions (temporary conditional relaxations) designed to help local authorities manage their transition to compliance. Where there is local disruption to waste management services, the Environment Agency are rapidly engaging with local authorities and local waste operators to understand the barriers to compliance and how they can support resumed services.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 22/02/2023 12:00:21 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1568946

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2023
	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	Farmers: Suicide
	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 she has taken recent steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the rate of suicide of men in the farming community.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	128726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>Each and every suicide is a tragedy, with a devastating impact on families and communities and we are committed to doing all we can to prevent them.</p><p><br> The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues about a range of issues and we continue to work together across Government, and with experts, to review our plans and ensure they are fit for the future.</p><p><br> We are investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention by 2023/24 through the NHS Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 30/01/2023 11:54:22 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1653954

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	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	Public Lavatories: Men
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2023 to Question 192826 on Public Lavatories: Men, how her Department encourages local authorities to consider the provision of sanitary bins in public toilets.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	194906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>Local authorities are best placed to determine bin provision locally. Our Binfrastructure guidance sets out a strategic approach local authorities can take to tailor their bin provision to the characteristics of the area and the community they serve. I am committed to working across government to explore where potential improvements can be made.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 21/07/2023 13:59:58 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1663417

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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	Incontinence: Public Lavatories and Public Spaces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of provision of sanitary bins for men experiencing incontinence in (a) male public toilets and (b) other public spaces.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	201271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government encourages local authorities to consider such provision in public toilets to support those with this need but does not have powers to compel the provision of sanitary bins in public toilets. I would encourage the hon. Member to raise the issue locally.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/10/2023 11:37:14 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1382612

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2021
	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	Plastics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to reduce the use of plastics during the remainder of the UK's COP presidency.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
	uin	904502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2021 answer text <p>Tackling plastic pollution was a priority before our COP presidency, and will continue to be after it concludes. The single-use carrier bag charge has led to a 95% reduction in the consumption of these bags in the main supermarkets- and earlier this year we extended it to all retailers. We are consulting right now on plans to go further, and extend restrictions on single-use plastics to plates, cutlery and expanded and extruded polystyrene food and drinks containers. In April 2022, we will introduce the plastic packaging tax – significantly incentivising plastic recycling. The world-leading Environment Act will allow us to do more still – with Extended Producer Responsibility schemes to ensure polluters pay, Deposit Return schemes to cut littering and boost plastic bottle recycling, and Consistent Collections to make recycling plastic, and other materials, easier for householders. Taken together, this is an exciting and comprehensive package of measures to make a real and lasting difference.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/12/2021 17:08:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher