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1719436

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Thirlwall Inquiry: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has allocated to the Thirlwall Inquiry.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	27174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Decisions about the budget for the inquiry will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/05/2024 08:58:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1716701

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
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	Floods: Food
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 impact of flooding on food production in the last four months.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	902725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2024 answer text <p>We recognise that the recent period of wet weather has impacted UK agriculture. While the current market assessment is that this will impact the domestic production of certain foods, it is too early to predict the impact on overall consumer supply at this stage. However, the UK has a highly resilient food supply chain which allows us to use international trade to supplement any fluctuations in domestic food supply and maintain overall food security.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Sir Mark Spencer question first answered 10/05/2024 08:10:59 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1698714

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of accommodating young female offenders in all-male young offender institutions on the wellbeing of those female offenders.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	902219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The safety of all those in our custodial estate, including young female offenders is a key priority.</p><p>Girls currently make up less than 1% of children and young people within the youth estate which has a range of mixed gender settings. In HMYOI Wetherby, girls live separately from boys but attend education and activities together, as occurs in the community.</p><p>Girls in the youth estate can communicate trauma-related stress through internalising behaviours such as self-harming. Professionals work hard to deliver effective care.</p><p>The YCS is further developing gender-responsive guidance and training both at HMYOI Wetherby and for the wider youth estate.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/03/2024 13:54:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1683211

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Fifty-first Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2022-23 on Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services, HC 737, published on 10 May 2023, how much of the £871 million allocated in the 2021 Spending Review to be spent by his Department on digital investment over three years has been spent.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	10353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>At least £381.5 million of the £871 million allocated in the 2021 Spending Review to be spent by Defra on digital investment has been spent as of 31 December 2023.</p><p>Approximately £134 million of the £871 million was allocated to Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) for their own IT expenditure and so is monitored through individual ALB finance processes rather than central Defra finance.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/02/2024 10:20:34 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1683212

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, With reference to the Fifty-first Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2022-23 on Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services, HC 737, published on 10 May 2023, how much of the £366 million allocated to his Department to (a) address legacy IT issues and (b) bring systems up to the necessary standard has been spent.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	10354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The £366 million figure referred to in the National Audit Office report covered a specific set of activities within Defra's overall 2021 Spending Review digital investment. At least £149.3 million has been spent on these activities as of 31 December 2023, alongside other digital investment.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/02/2024 12:16:42 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1676173

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
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	Flood Control
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 he has made of the adequacy of flood defences.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	900517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the Environment Agency and relevant authorities to ensure flood defences impacted by recent flooding are repaired as quickly as possible; around 14,000 asset inspections have been conducted following the recent storms with action taken wherever asset performance was compromised.</p><p> </p><p>This year and last, £200 million is being invested in maintaining flood risk assets, with the aim of achieving our current target of between 94-95% in target condition.</p><p> </p><p>In the City of Chester, in the current Flood and Coastal Risk Management capital programme, £20,000 of Flood Defence Grant-in-Aid funding has been allocated for projects in the constituency, which will better protect properties from flooding. There is also a proposed project in the Stretford and Urmston constituency (Longford Brook Flood Alleviation Scheme).</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore grouped question UIN 900516 question first answered 07/12/2023 15:59:05 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1665811

registered interest
date	18/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place a copy of his Department’s internal projection of the CPI inflation figure for October 2023 in the House of Commons Library.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	203424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the Government’s official forecaster.</p><p> </p><p>The OBR published its most recent <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/" target="_blank">economic and fiscal forecasts in March 2023</a> and will publish an updated projection alongside the Autumn Statement on 22<sup>nd</sup> November.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 26/10/2023 10:10:02 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1663398

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	Water: Standards
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 is taking steps to ensure that water companies (a) sample water entering their water treatment plants and (b) publish data on this.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	201252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>There is no requirement currently for water companies to sample and publish data on the quality of water entering their waste water treatment plants. However, they are required to sample treated effluents from their plants which are discharged to the environment. These samples are analysed and assessed for compliance against protective environmental permit requirements. This information is reported to the Environment Agency and published on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>However, a new requirement in S. 82 of the Environment Act 2021 requires sewerage undertakers to continuously monitor the quality of the receiving water upstream and downstream of their assets. This will allow sewerage undertakers to assess the impact of discharges from their assets on the receiving watercourse. The requirement covers both storm overflows and the treatment works discharges and is being introduced in 2025.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1149923%2FCWQM_programme_provisional_technical_guidance_for_sewerage_undertakers_April_2023.1.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cca62d29b78854fa7614208dbd3db821c%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638336711953438804%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5DgbNalo%2Fh4MHEjm49VyWSVnBJy5UqhWU5R22mHR9sU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Continuous Water Quality Monitoring Programme - provisional technical guidance for sewerage undertakers (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/10/2023 09:36:31 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1663429

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	Water Companies: Pollution Control
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 ensure that water companies meet their target for reduced pollution incidents by 2025.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	201283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>While the water sector has delivered a 15% reduction in category 1-3 pollution incidents since 2019, companies are not on track to meet the 2024-25 target. Both the Government and regulators expect water companies to step up this improvement. Ministers regularly meet with the regulators to discuss progress and have engaged directly with water companies who are not performing to the standard we expect.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency regularly meets with water companies to assure progress against their pollution reductions plans, which water companies are required to publish. Pollution offences may be subject to action in line with the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fenvironment-agency-enforcement-and-sanctions-policy%2Fenvironment-agency-enforcement-and-sanctions-policy&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cdfdf0e5535154e46bce308dbd09ff523%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638333157657964573%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fuZ1%2BT5%2F0A%2BhXqPVTz4GNeoxroOke%2F5yWkgPZXYrqnE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Environment Agency’s Enforcement and Sanctions Policy.</a></p><p> </p><p>Ofwat requires underperforming companies to produce detailed service delivery plans, and Ministers will be following this up with regular meetings with Chairs and CEOs to track progress. I have also written to Ofwat’s Chair and CEO asking them to outline the detailed steps they will take to hold all water companies to account on these findings.</p><p> </p><p>Where companies have underperformed against their commitments, they will be required to return money directly to customers through their bills. Based on the results of Ofwat’s 2022-23 Water Company Performance Report, water companies will have to return £114 million over 2024-25.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/10/2023 09:29:01 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon

1663603

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Community Energy Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if her Department will produce annual reports on the progress (a) of the Community Energy Fund and (b) towards establishing local supply rights.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Samantha Dixon
uin	201457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government has recently committed to publishing an annual report on the community energy sector, and to consult on the barriers the sector faces when developing projects. The right to local energy supply already exists and Ofgem has existing flexibility to award supply licences that are restricted to specified geographies.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/10/2023 09:47:53 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4976 label Biography information for Samantha Dixon