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1177635

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Air Pollution: Urban Areas
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 she is taking to reduce air pollution in (a) Liverpool and (b) other cities.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>As a result of the 2017 NO<sub>2</sub> Plan and 2018 supplement, 61 local authorities including Liverpool have been required to assess what action is needed to address NO<sub>2</sub> exceedances in their area and develop local plans. The Government is committed to improving air quality in the UK and have provided £572 million to support the development and implementation of required measures by these local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Liverpool City Council submitted a final plan to deliver compliance with legal limits for NO<sub>2 </sub>in the form of an Outline Business Case in October last year. We continue to work with the Council to ensure their final plan delivers compliance with legal NO<sub>2</sub> limit levels in the shortest possible time.</p><p> </p><p>Our Clean Air Strategy (CAS) sets out an ambitious programme of action to reduce air pollutant emissions from a wide range of sources. The World Health Organization has recognised the CAS as an example for the rest of the world to follow. Our Environment Bill was reintroduced to Parliament on 30 January 2020 and makes a clear commitment to set an ambitious target for fine particulate matter, the pollutant of most concern for human health. It also ensures that local authorities have a clear framework and simple to use powers to tackle air pollution in their areas, and will provide the Government with new powers to enforce environmental standards for vehicles. All this action will improve air quality across the UK, including in the most affected areas</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/02/2020 15:12:00 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1177651

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Fly-tipping: Bosworth
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 tackle fly tipping in Bosworth constituency.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>Fly-tipping is an unacceptable blight on local communities, wherever it occurs, and a crime that the Government is committed to tackling. In recent years we have bolstered local authorities’ powers to tackle fly-tipping.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities, such as Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, have a range of powers available to tackle fly-tipping. This includes the power to take those accused of fly-tipping to court. If a fly-tipper is convicted in a Magistrates’ Court, the offence is punishable by a fine of up to £50,000 or 12 months’ imprisonment. If they are convicted in a Crown Court, the offence can attract an unlimited fine and up to five years’ imprisonment.</p><p> </p><p>We have cracked down on offenders by working with the Sentencing Council to strengthen the guidance for environmental offences. We will keep this guidance under review as we deliver on our manifesto commitment to secure tougher penalties. We will continue to work with magistrates and the Judicial Office to ensure magistrates are effectively trained in the use of the guidance and are aware of the prevalence of waste crime and the significance of its impact on local communities. This will help to ensure that fly-tippers receive appropriate sentences for the offence they have committed.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have powers to search and seize vehicles of suspected fly-tippers, and the power to issue fixed penalty notices of up to £400 for fly-tipping offences and for those who breach their duty of care by passing their waste to a fly-tipper. In August 2019 we published publicity materials aimed at helping householders better understand their responsibilities under the waste duty of care. The materials have been provided to the Local Government Association to circulate to local authorities and published on the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group’s website.</p><p> </p><p>Powers to tackle fly-tipping are also being enhanced through the newly introduced Environment Bill, in particular through amendments to the powers to search for and seize evidence, as well as amendments to the powers of entry in the Environment Act 1995, to make it easier for enforcing authorities to use them. In addition to the measures in the Environment Bill, Defra is developing proposals to fundamentally reform the waste carrier, broker, dealer regime and introduce electronic waste tracking which will ensure those transporting waste can be better regulated, and that we are able to track waste through the system at all points.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is also developing a fly-tipping toolkit, which will be a web-based tool to help local authorities and others work in partnership to tackle fly-tipping. It will cover the use of new technology to report fly-tipping, the presentation of cases to court, the sharing of intelligence within and between partnerships and will promote the duty of care to individuals and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/02/2020 15:19:06 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1177665

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Incinerators: Fires
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 she has made of trends in the number of fires being reported at waste incinerator sites since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of trends in the number of fires being reported at waste incinerator sites since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>In England all incinerators that are regulated by the Environment Agency (such as energy from waste plants that burn municipal waste) are required to have a management system which identifies and minimises the risk of pollution due to accidents, which will include fires. All new incinerators must also have an approved fire prevention plan before they are allowed to start operating.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 643 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:26:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177667

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Incinerators: Fire Prevention
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 has taken to help prevent the occurrence of fire incidents at waste incinerator sites.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of trends in the number of fires being reported at waste incinerator sites since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>In England all incinerators that are regulated by the Environment Agency (such as energy from waste plants that burn municipal waste) are required to have a management system which identifies and minimises the risk of pollution due to accidents, which will include fires. All new incinerators must also have an approved fire prevention plan before they are allowed to start operating.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 641 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:26:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177669

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Waste Disposal: Environment Protection
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 comparative assessment she has made of the environmental effects of mechanical biological treatment waste processes and waste incineration processes.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>Defra has not made such an assessment. Residual waste should be treated in accordance with the waste hierarchy.</p><p> </p><p>To assist decision makers, the department published information on the mechanical biological treatment of waste in 2013. This can be found on the GOV.UK website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mechanical-biological-treatment-of-municipal-solid-waste" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/mechanical-biological-treatment-of-municipal-solid-waste</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on energy from waste (incineration with energy recovery) was published in 2014 at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-from-waste-a-guide-to-the-debate" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-from-waste-a-guide-to-the-debate</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/02/2020 15:14:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177671

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Air 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 recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of air pollution in (a) the UK and (b) Carshalton and Wallington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>Air quality is generally improving in the UK, as set out in the annual National Statistics report at the following URL: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/air-quality-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/air-quality-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There are 171 automatic national monitoring stations producing hourly air quality measurements in the UK operated by the Environment Agency on behalf of Defra. Near real-time measurements from these sites and further data tools can be found on the UK-AIR website (<a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>There are no automatic national monitoring stations in Carshalton and Wallington constituency. However, the London Borough of Sutton also assesses air quality using three automatic monitors within the constituency boundary: two are industrial monitoring stations at Beddington Lane, and the other site is a roadside site in central Wallington. Near real-time measurements from these sites can be found on the London Air website which is managed by King’s College London (<a href="http://londonair.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://londonair.org.uk</a>). Air quality is improving at all three sites, with only the Wallington site providing an exceedance of the annual mean limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>) in 2019 (based on provisional data).</p><p> </p><p>The Borough also uses 15 passive monitors to measure NO<sub>2</sub> within the constituency boundaries; measurements are made available through Annual Status Reports (<a href="https://www.sutton.gov.uk/info/200497/pollution/1232/air_pollution/3" target="_blank">https://www.sutton.gov.uk/info/200497/pollution/1232/air_pollution/3</a>). Only two exceedances of the annual mean limit value for NO<sub>2</sub> were observed in 2018 (at Rosehill Roundabout and London Road, Hackbridge) with levels at most sites either showing a lower or similar value compared with 2017 levels.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/02/2020 15:29:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177672

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Viridor
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 assessment she has made of trends in the level of air pollutants generated by the Viridor energy recovery facility incinerator on Beddington Lane in South London.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) regulates the Energy Recovery Facility (Erf) in Beddington Lane, Sutton through an Environmental Permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010. The permit has strict conditions relating to acceptable levels of emissions of substances. The ErF operator (Viridor) is required to continuously and periodically monitor the emissions from the Erf stacks and submit the monitoring data quarterly to the EA.</p><p> </p><p>The EA assesses all data submitted including breaches in emission limits for trends and requires the operator to investigate issues and take actions to rectify them.</p><p> </p><p>The quarterly monitoring data that covers January 2020 is due to be submitted to the EA before end of April 2020. The EA have not received any notifications for breaches in emission limits during January 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 649 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:33:39 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177674

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Viridor
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 she has made of the level of carbon monoxide emissions from the Viridor energy recovery facility incinerator on Beddington Lane in South London during January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) regulates the Energy Recovery Facility (Erf) in Beddington Lane, Sutton through an Environmental Permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010. The permit has strict conditions relating to acceptable levels of emissions of substances. The ErF operator (Viridor) is required to continuously and periodically monitor the emissions from the Erf stacks and submit the monitoring data quarterly to the EA.</p><p> </p><p>The EA assesses all data submitted including breaches in emission limits for trends and requires the operator to investigate issues and take actions to rectify them.</p><p> </p><p>The quarterly monitoring data that covers January 2020 is due to be submitted to the EA before end of April 2020. The EA have not received any notifications for breaches in emission limits during January 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 647 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:33:39 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1177683

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Flood Control: 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 discussions she has had with representatives from the Environment Agency on additional resources for the maintenance of flood and drainage systems.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is investing £2.6 billion between 2015 and 2021 to deliver more than 1,000 flood defence projects to better protect 300,000 homes by 2021.This is on top of £1 billion to maintain flood defence assets between 2015 and 2020. This includes investing in developing technology and direct maintenance work such as managing drainage systems, inspecting assets and carrying out repairs. This is a real-terms increase when compared with the average annual capital investment of £812 million over the previous five years. Defra will continue to work with the Environment Agency to consider future investment needs ahead of the Budget announcement on future floods funding on 11 March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 543 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:31:56 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1177684

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Flood Control: 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 she is taking to ensure the adequacy of resources available to the Environment Agency for the maintenance of (a) flood defences and (b) drainage systems.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is investing £2.6 billion between 2015 and 2021 to deliver more than 1,000 flood defence projects to better protect 300,000 homes by 2021.This is on top of £1 billion to maintain flood defence assets between 2015 and 2020. This includes investing in developing technology and direct maintenance work such as managing drainage systems, inspecting assets and carrying out repairs. This is a real-terms increase when compared with the average annual capital investment of £812 million over the previous five years. Defra will continue to work with the Environment Agency to consider future investment needs ahead of the Budget announcement on future floods funding on 11 March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 542 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:31:56 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy