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1695465

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	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	Timber: 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 (a) supply chain, (b) labelling and (c) other processes and requirements are in place to ensure that imported wood comes from a sustainable forestry scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	18280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Timber Regulations (UKTR) prohibit the placing of illegally harvested timber on the market. Under the Withdrawal Act, UKTR applies to GB. Businesses must exercise due diligence on timber imports to demonstrate legality of harvest.</p><p> </p><p>The Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Regulations and associated Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA), aim to improve the supply of verified legal timber to the UK market. Producer countries who have agreed a VPA with the UK and can demonstrate effective nationwide controls verifying legality of harvest, can issue FLEGT licences.</p><p> </p><p>Under the UK Government Timber Procurement Policy, all timber products procured for use on the Government estate must meet accepted standards of legality and sustainability.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 18/03/2024 16:12:26 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1685861

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	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	Forest Products: Origin Marking
	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 he will publish guidance for businesses on verifying the origin of imported forest risk commodities to the plot of land where they were grown under Schedule 17 of the Environment Act 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	12085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government committed to tackling illegal deforestation in UK supply chains through the Environment Act in 2021 and announced further details of the secondary legislation at COP28 in December 2023. This law will make it illegal for organisations with a global annual turnover of more than £50m to use key forest risk commodities produced on land illegally occupied or used. Our regulations will not require information on the plot of land where commodities were sourced. However, regulated organisations will have to put in place due diligence systems—and will have to report on these systems—in order to lower the risk that there are prohibited forest risk commodity products in their supply chains to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable. Initial secondary legislation will focus on four commodities identified as key drivers of deforestation: cattle products (excluding dairy), cocoa, palm oil and soy.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to laying the secondary legislation to tackle illegal deforestation in the United Kingdom's supply chains and plan to do so in Spring of this year. Initial guidance will be published alongside this legislation, to support organisations in meeting their due diligence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/02/2024 14:12:33 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1610404

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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	Animals: Accidents
	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 help prevent animals being (a) killed on roads or (b) left by the roadside following being killed or injured on agricultural land.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	180537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for managing their road networks and have a range of duties and responsibilities to meet in doing so. However, there is no specific requirement on them to prevent or reduce animal deaths on roads. Where wildlife poses a risk to drivers, for example where large animals may be in the road ahead, local authorities can erect traffic signs to warn them.</p><p> </p><p>A focus for this Government is to make roads safer for all users, which will in turn reduce the risk to all animals.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/04/2023 11:46:04 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1588244

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	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	Chemicals: Regulation
	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 commitment of the European Commission and European Chemicals Agency to develop a roadmap toward full replacement of animal testing, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK chemicals regulation (a) remains competitive and (b) is at the forefront of scientific development.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	150614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of opposing animal tests where alternative approaches could be used. We are determined that there should be no need for any additional animal testing for a chemical that has already been registered under UK REACH, unless it is subject to further evaluation that shows the registration dossier is inadequate or there are still concerns about the hazards and risks of the chemical, especially to human health.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is supporting work to develop New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) which can provide information on chemical hazards and risk assessment. NAMs can provide information on chemical hazard and risk assessment without the use of protected animals. The UK is already, and will continue to be, a strong contributor to NAMs development at an international level. It contributes, for example, to the development of non-animal alternatives for chemical testing through collaborative research programmes and work at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which develops internationally standardised tools and guidance to support companies and regulators in the use of non-animal methods.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is working with others across Government on the use of non-animal methods into chemicals and wider risk assessment where they are equal to or offer improvements to accuracy, speed and efficiency. Our approach to regulation aligns with this direction of travel; for example REACH contains the last resort principle, which means that an animal study can only be carried out once a company has exhausted other ways of assessing the chemical’s hazard.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing a cross-government Chemicals Strategy to frame the work we are doing across chemicals and put us on a path for improved chemicals management. It will set out our priorities and principles for taking regulatory action to protect human health and the environment. We are aiming to publish the Chemicals Strategy in 2023.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/02/2023 15:14:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1587839

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2023
	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	Air Quality Grant Scheme
	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 with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing the air quality grant for local authorities in the spring budget.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	149601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>Defra remains committed to providing support for local authorities to tackle air pollution through the air quality grant. Since 2018 we have awarded over £35 million to a range of locally targeted projects. This includes £10.7 million in funding awarded to 44 local authorities this year.</p><p> </p><p>The value of funding committed to the grant is reviewed annually. The budget available for the next round of funding will be announced in summer 2023.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/02/2023 14:29:16 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1587840

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2023
	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	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, when the Government's revised air quality strategy will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	149602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The department plans to publish a revised National Air Quality Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/02/2023 17:24:31 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1580359

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Dogs: Import Controls
	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 ban the import of dogs.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	131441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>We do not have plans to ban the import of dogs.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/02/2023 14:32:41 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1551232

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	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	Air Pollution: 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, if she will publish the (a) modelling reports produced by Imperial College London and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and (B) other papers that informed the PM2.5 targets established in the Environment Act 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	109788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>We have published over a thousand pages of detailed analysis showing the rationale for our targets to be set under the Environment Act.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 16/01/2023 13:18:44 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1547367

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2022
	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	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, whether she will make an assessment of the potential impact of not announcing formal air quality targets on the timeline for the development of the Environmental Improvement Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	101054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>We will be publishing the targets as soon as possible and the Environmental Improvement Plan will be published before 31 January.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 14/12/2022 16:52:51 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1547369

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2022
	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	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, whether she has plans to publish the analysis informing her proposed clean air targets.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	101055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The analysis has already been published as part of the Consultation.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 16/01/2023 12:47:10 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel