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1689910

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	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	Plastic Bags: Fees and Charges
	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 money has been raised (a) in total and (b) for (i) charitable and (ii) community causes by the charge for single-use carrier bags in each year since 21 May 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	14471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Since the Government introduced the charge, it has generated over £190 million for good causes and the number of single-use plastic carrier bags used in the main supermarkets has fallen by more than 7 billion, a reduction of over 98%.</p><p> </p><p>A full dataset of details for each retailer on the amount of gross proceeds, VAT, total costs and net proceeds can be found on gov.uk.</p><p><br> Defra publishes a summary of this data which includes the amounts of money given to good causes: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcarrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cd9a1692a2387451acd5c08dc3393c405%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638441956943563774%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=dIt0vj9pOokWPDzzroiL6xWXeHfz8xYpLs6PamXfkuM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the legislation which requires retailers to donate proceeds from the charge to good causes. Only large retailers are required to keep a record of and report on the uses to which these proceeds have been put.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to the request to provide a detail of how much money has been raised (a) in total and (b) for (i) charitable and (ii) community causes by the charge each year since 21 May 2021, this level of breakdown is not something that Defra holds.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 26/02/2024 13:09:13 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1689911

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	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	Plastic Bags: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which (a) charities and (b) community organisations have received funds from the charge for single-use carrier bags in each year since 21 May 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	14472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Since the Government introduced the charge, it has generated over £190 million for good causes and the number of single-use plastic carrier bags used in the main supermarkets has fallen by more than 7 billion, a reduction of over 98%.</p><p> </p><p>A full dataset of details for each retailer on the amount of gross proceeds, VAT, total costs and net proceeds can be found on gov.uk.</p><p><br> Defra publishes a summary of this data which includes the amounts of money given to good causes: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcarrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cd9a1692a2387451acd5c08dc3393c405%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638441956943551921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BhONWtLlZhIPdxr8jJcmxdgy%2FmtJFOkv8E7ImYJjA4I%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the legislation which requires retailers to donate proceeds from the charge to good causes. Only large retailers are required to keep a record of and report on the uses to which these proceeds have been put.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to the request to provide the detail of which (a) charities and (b) community organisations have received funds each year since 21 May 2021, this information is not something that Defra holds.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 26/02/2024 13:05:02 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1684472

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Agriculture: Floods
	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 funding his Department has provided to support farmers whose lands have been flooded in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	10981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The Farming Recovery Fund was activated in 2019 for farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their land and were affected by exceptional flooding incidents as a result of significant rainfall. £1.4m was allocated towards reinstatement costs. £519,000 of this was claimed in 2020, £884,200 in 2021, and £750 in 2022. The fund was also announced on Saturday 6<sup>th</sup> January 2024 following Storm Henk, as part of the wider Flood Recovery Framework, but there is no claims data to report yet.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 07/02/2024 17:36:15 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman