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1666435

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Electrical Goods
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the future (1) production, and (2) sale, of small electrical items; what progress has been made on the implementation of the "producer-pays" principle for such items; and what steps they are taking to increase recycling of these items, in particular those that remain unused in storage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL10709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 26/10/2023 11:08:30 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1666699

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances: South Shields
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 collaborate with (a) water companies and (b) scientific experts on future investment in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances remediation for South Shields.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	203852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) has worked with water companies and their research body, UK Water Industry Research, on the Chemicals Investigation Programme (CIP) since 2010. CIP has conducted investigations into PFOS and PFOA, and the CIP3 phase has established their concentrations in sewage works, their catchments and the receiving waters. Based on this work targeted investigations will be conducted in the next phase of CIP, known as CIP4, none of which need to be carried out in South Shields.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK REACH Work Programme for 2021-22, Defra asked the EA and Health and Safety Executive to examine the risks posed by PFAS and develop a 'Regulatory Management Options Analysis' (RMOA). Defra welcomed the RMOA recently published and is working with its partners to develop the recommendations for risk management measures, building on the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to tackle chemicals of concern.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 26/10/2023 07:06:12 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1666191

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
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	Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
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 her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate (a) the stunning and (b) other aspects of the welfare of farmed fish.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	203469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Current legislation already provides protection for farmed fish kept for the production of meat or other products whilst on farm and during transport. The Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes it an offence either to cause any captive animal unnecessary suffering or to fail to provide for welfare needs. Legislation on the protection of animals at the time of killing requires that farmed fish are spared avoidable pain, distress or suffering during their killing and related operations.</p><p> </p><p>The Animal Welfare Committee has updated its 2014 Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing and we are studying the recommendations carefully to determine next steps.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 25/10/2023 09:24:40 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1665715

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
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	Giant Hogweed
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 her Department has published advice for local authorities on the (a) control and (b) removal of giant hogweed on land near to public right of way where there may be a risk to public health.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	203224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Giant hogweed is listed as a species of special concern under the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019, which makes an offence of planting or otherwise causing giant hogweed to grow in the wild. As giant hogweed is widespread in the UK, there is no legal requirement to report it, nor is it compulsory to remove it. Although there are currently no plans for a large-scale eradication of giant hogweed, we support local eradication projects where this is feasible as part of management measures for this species.</p><p> </p><p>Defra, in collaboration with Natural England and Environment Agency, has published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prevent-the-spread-of-harmful-invasive-and-non-native-plants" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.</p><p> </p><p>The GB Non-Native Species Secretariat <a href="https://www.nonnativespecies.org/non-native-species/information-portal/view/1705%E2%80%AF%E2%80%AF" target="_blank">website</a> is the primary site for publicly available information on individual invasive species such as giant hogweed and includes links to management guidance documents produced by a range of organisations. The Secretariat carries out many public awareness campaigns, publishes articles, and provides training in which giant hogweed frequently features due to its human health impact.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/10/2023 12:52:19 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1665776

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
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	Derelict Land: Contamination
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 her Department has made of the potential merits of reintroducing funding to clean up contaminated brownfield land.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	203337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory responsibility under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to inspect their areas from ‘time to time’ to identify and require the remediation of any land.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that in particularly severe or complex cases Landfill Tax can act as a prohibitive financial barrier to the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated land. My Department held a Call for Evidence on this issue and published a Government response in March this year. As a result of this evidence, we are currently developing a grant scheme to fund costs of Landfill Tax to public bodies in England, where such costs are acting as a determinative barrier to the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated land.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/10/2023 11:51:28 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1665598

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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	UK Internal Trade: Labelling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the costs to UK businesses of the requirement for not-for-EU labels on products in (1) 2023–24 and (2) 2024–25.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The first phase of ‘Not-for-EU’ labelling requirements under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme took effect from 1 October. Further phases will follow in October 2024 and July 2025. The Government would not normally provide any financial support to businesses for the cost of new labelling requirements. However, in recognition of the accelerated timescale compared with standard labelling changes, we have exceptionally made available a £50 million fund, the Transitional Labelling Financial Assistance Scheme. This will cover 2023-24 (phase one) costs only, because the following phases are in line with normal timescales for labelling changes. Redesign, printing and warehouse costs for product, box, and shelf level labelling will all be in scope.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish its assessment of the costs of the new labelling requirements in due course. The £50 million grant fund we have announced is designed to cover the majority, though not all, of industry costs incurred in this respect. This is to encourage efficiency and because labelling changes would normally be part of the cost of doing business for the food industry, as well as to protect the public purse.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon grouped question UIN HL10646 question first answered 25/10/2023 10:44:29 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1665599

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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	UK Internal Trade: Labelling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the funding of £50 million announced to support businesses to cover costs of not-for-EU labelling has been baselined for future funding, or whether it is one-off funding.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The first phase of ‘Not-for-EU’ labelling requirements under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme took effect from 1 October. Further phases will follow in October 2024 and July 2025. The Government would not normally provide any financial support to businesses for the cost of new labelling requirements. However, in recognition of the accelerated timescale compared with standard labelling changes, we have exceptionally made available a £50 million fund, the Transitional Labelling Financial Assistance Scheme. This will cover 2023-24 (phase one) costs only, because the following phases are in line with normal timescales for labelling changes. Redesign, printing and warehouse costs for product, box, and shelf level labelling will all be in scope.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish its assessment of the costs of the new labelling requirements in due course. The £50 million grant fund we have announced is designed to cover the majority, though not all, of industry costs incurred in this respect. This is to encourage efficiency and because labelling changes would normally be part of the cost of doing business for the food industry, as well as to protect the public purse.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon grouped question UIN HL10645 question first answered 25/10/2023 10:44:29 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662875

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	Clean Air Zones: 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, whether she has plans to mandate Birmingham City Council to expand its Clean Air Zone for the purposes of generating income following the issuing of a Section 114 notice by that council.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	200729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>No. Local authorities cannot use Clean Air Zones as a revenue raising measure. Under the Transport Act 2000 the net proceeds of any charging schemes made under the Act are only available to the local authority for the purpose of facilitating the achievement of its local transport policies.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 20/10/2023 11:41:56 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1662997

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	Boats: Elmbridge
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 estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of the Environment Agency (a) relocating and (b) removing the 116 alleged unregistered vessels moored on Environment Agency-owned land in Elmbridge Borough on 30 July 2023 using powers under Article 16 of the Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Dominic Raab
uin	200851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>During the Covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021 there were significant periods of time during lockdown when the Environment Agency eased mooring restrictions and we were not enforcing. The Environment Agency was successful in an enforcement matter in 2019 for a boat owner overstaying on their moorings and had costs awarded for their costs of £20k <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fkingston-boater-fined-for-illegal-moorings&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cf2f6584ef2884f23dec508dbcef22b85%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638331311726105294%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kfYxoKeItFgF%2BLewNiM%2FpmZl22WLl5EX1ZaADx2vKzU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Kingston boater fined for illegal moorings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency have been told there are allegedly 116 unregistered boats moored to their land in Elmbridge but cannot confirm the details of that data. The matter of the use of Article16 of the Inland Waterways Order 2010 has been subject to public consultation on its use. Until the consultation has been reviewed and a response has been published the Environment Agency has not concluded on how the use of Article 16 will be enforced across the country.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/10/2023 13:43:09 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

1663080

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	Office for Environmental 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, how much grant funding was provided to the Office for Environmental Protection in financial years (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	200934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) in England is publicly funded by a grant in aid from Defra as the sponsoring department.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022/23, Defra provided £7,108,583 of baseline funding and £4,364,366 of additional funding to the OEP to support establishment costs.</p><p> </p><p>In 2023/24, Defra increased baseline funding to £8,130,755 and provided £1,100,000 of additional funding.</p><p> </p><p>The OEP’s activity in Northern Ireland is funded separately by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/10/2023 12:21:24 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas