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1628545

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
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	Maize: 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, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of banning imported forage maize seed treated with bird repellent and fungicide on (a) the UK’s ability to grow forage maize and (b) the alternative energy anaerobic digestion industry.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	185653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>From 1 January 2024, treated seeds can only be used if they are treated with Plant Protection Products authorised in GB. After we left the EU, transitional arrangements were put in place so that seeds treated with products authorised for use in the EU but not GB could continue to be imported, marketed and used. These arrangements come to an end on 31 December 2023. Industry has had the opportunity over the last 3 years to apply for the relevant GB authorisations, HSE has highlighted the actions that they need to take.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 185651 185652 question first answered 24/05/2023 16:36:31 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1623972

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the potential impact of the ending of freedom of movement with the EU on business costs; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of negotiating with the EU to allow frontier worker permits to be applied to more than one EU country at a time.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	182882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade does not hold this data. In December 2020, the UK and the EU agreed a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which allows short-term business visitors to travel to the EU. This department is not responsible for frontiers workers permits.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/05/2023 12:08:08 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1611022

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of international student visa restrictions on the higher education sector.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	904516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The department works closely with the Home Office on a range of issues, including on matters relating to international student visas. The government keeps all immigration policies under constant review to ensure they best serve the country and reflect the public’s priorities.</p><p>International students make a significant economic and cultural contribution to the UK’s higher education sector, and I am proud to have met our International Education Strategy ambition to attract at least 600,000 international students for the second consecutive year.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 17/04/2023 15:19:23 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1606492

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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	Batteries: 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 the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing household kerb-side collection of batteries to help (a) protect workers in the waste and recycling sector (b) reduce the number of fires caused by incorrectly disposed of lithium-ion batteries.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	171437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Defra has not made any such assessment yet, but plans to consult on potential reforms to the batteries regulations to help address these issues by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 29/03/2023 15:55:48 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1606499

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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	Environment Agency: 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, if she will increase funding to the Environmental Agency to help tackle illegal operators in the (a) metals recycling and (b) waste and recycling sector.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	171440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>Waste regulation is a devolved matter. Following our consultation on reform of the waste exemptions regime in England and Wales we plan to remove the T9 exemption for the recovery of scrap metal and the U16 exemption for using vehicle parts dismantled from end-of life vehicles. These operations will now require an environmental permit.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has made no assessment of the potential impact of waste crime on the waste and recycling sector or the UK economy. Research for the Environmental Services Association (Counting the Cost of UK Waste Crime, 2021) estimated that waste crime costs the economy in England £924 million in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided an additional £10 million per year for the Environment Agency to tackle waste crime. This additional funding has been invested into three key areas of waste crime – tackling illegal waste sites, illegal dumping and illegal exports.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 171439 question first answered 31/03/2023 15:11:15 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1602361

registered interest
date	08/03/2023
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	Clothing: UK Trade with EU
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 support sustainable fashion and textiles businesses who export to the EU with meeting the EU's Extended Producer Responsibility commitments.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	161318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>The Commission announced their intention to propose harmonised EU Extended Producer Responsibility rules for textiles as part of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive and we look forward to seeing these final proposals and will consider how they might fit with our own independent regulatory framework.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s 2018 Resources &amp; Waste Strategy for England identified textiles as a priority sector for action. A key part of this strategy is working with the textiles industry to reduce their environmental impact. We have brought major retailers together to commit to reducing carbon and water footprints through our Textiles 2030 programme and we are currently looking into both near and longer-term policies to reduce textiles waste.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 16/03/2023 14:30:01 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1541480

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
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	Climate Change: Developing Countries
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 help climate finance reach low-income communities vulnerable to climate change; and whether she has held discussions with her counterparts in high-income countries on this matter.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	84902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK's International Climate Finance delivered by BEIS, FCDO, and Defra, supports developing nations to adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change including through improved protecting and restoring nature, improving food security, water management and preparedness against climate-related disasters. At COP27 the Prime Minister announced the UK will triple our funding on adaptation from £500 million in 2019 to £1.5 billion in 2025. In addition, in partnership with the Champions Group of Adaptation Finance, the UK and other climate finance providers are collaborating with low income climate vulnerable countries, to address barriers to increasing flows, quality, effectiveness and accessibility of adaptation finance, including to the poorest people and communities who are already suffering the most from climate change.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/11/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1519368

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to make the NHS Pension Scheme a tax unregistered scheme to help increase senior consultant retention.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	59855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce a tax unregistered pension scheme for the National Health Service. The majority of NHS Pension Scheme members can build their pensions tax-free and an unregistered arrangement would remove this tax relief on contributions and a tax-free lump sum of up to 25% of the value of their pension on retirement. The Government has asked NHS England to work with NHS organisations to introduce schemes to allow recycling of employer pension contributions to high earners who opt out of the NHS Pension scheme due to the impact of pension tax.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/10/2022 14:04:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1506647

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Making Tax Digital reforms that require separate (a) records and (b) tax return submissions for each business on people with multiple small businesses who earn below the income tax threshold; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing those people to (i) submit a single tax return and (ii) utilise only one paid software subscription for all of their businesses.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	51744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>As is currently the case for Income Tax Self Assessment, taxpayers will need to maintain separate records for each business that they operate, but under Making Tax Digital (MTD) these will need to be digital. This ensures that businesses maintain accurate records to support the updates and returns they make to HMRC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Making quarterly updates through MTD compatible software is not the same as making quarterly tax returns and no accounting or tax adjustments are needed for these updates. Taxpayers will be able to submit these updates for each business directly from their digital records through the software.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC expects a range of third-party software will be available to taxpayers and that many products will cater for users with multiple business income sources.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 28/09/2022 08:19:43 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1485148

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
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	Package Holidays: 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, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June 2022 to Question 17967 on Package Holidays: Animal Welfare, what discussions she has had with (a) the travel industry and (b) other stakeholder organisations on introducing a ban on the domestic (i) advertising and (ii) sale of wild animal experiences abroad.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	28428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have been engaging with industry groups and interested stakeholders - and continue to do so - on many of the measures set out in the Action Plan for Animal Welfare, including reforms relating to not advertising or offering for sale, here, activities involving unacceptable practices abroad.</p><p> </p><p>The Government considers that reputable and responsible tour operators here should not be advertising or offering attractions, activities, or experiences abroad that involve the unacceptable treatment of animals. The Association of British Travel Agents has published guidelines and lists activities which have been classified as unacceptable.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Advertising Standards Association regulates online advertising in the UK and has issued advice about featuring animals in marketing communications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 30010 question first answered 07/07/2022 11:51:34 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally