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1037113

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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: Brexit
	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 his Department is spending on a public information campaign to prepare people for the potential effects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	206012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has a duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise on the steps they may need to take to prepare for EU Exit.</p><p> </p><p>We have developed a cross-departmental public information campaign to help achieve this. Over the coming weeks, we will be using a range of channels to direct UK citizens, businesses, EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU to a dedicated area on GOV.UK at Gov.uk/euexit.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the costs associated with this campaign will be released in due course as part of normal data transparency releases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 10/01/2019 17:29:52 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1198391

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	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	Animal Products: Trade
	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 his Department plans to respond to the consultation on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	52320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given to the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow on 19 May 2020, PQ UIN 46697, which remains the current situation.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-05-13/46697" target="_blank">[www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-05-13/46697</a>]</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 09/06/2020 10:38:09 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1227504

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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 has been raised by the plastic bag levy in each year since that scheme was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>The total amount donated to good causes per year was: £29.2 million in 2015/2016, £65.4 million in 2016/2017, £51.6 million in 2017/2018, £22.9 million in 2018/2019 and £9.2 million in 2019/2020. The reduction in later reporting years is primarily due to retailers selling fewer single-use carrier bags in those years.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2015/2016 covered only 6 months (5 October 2015 to 6 April 2016), so is not directly comparable to other reporting years.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/09/2020 14:08:09 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1227505

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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
	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 many single-use plastic bags have been sold in each year since the levy on plastic bags was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>Since 5 October 2015, large retailers in England have been required by law to charge a minimum of 5p for single-use plastic bags and to report on the number they sell each year.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of single-use plastic bags that were sold by large retailers each full reporting year is as follows: 2.12 billion in 2016/17, 1.75 billion in 2017/18,1.11 billion in 2018/19 and 564 million in 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>Retailers are not required to report on the number of plastic bags for life sold as these are not within the scope of the carrier bag charge. However, they can provide this information voluntarily.</p><p> </p><p>The full datasets for each reporting year are on GOV.UK and can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 78800 question first answered 02/09/2020 13:35:08 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1227506

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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
	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 many plastic bags for life have been sold in each year since the introduction of the plastic bag levy in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>Since 5 October 2015, large retailers in England have been required by law to charge a minimum of 5p for single-use plastic bags and to report on the number they sell each year.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of single-use plastic bags that were sold by large retailers each full reporting year is as follows: 2.12 billion in 2016/17, 1.75 billion in 2017/18,1.11 billion in 2018/19 and 564 million in 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>Retailers are not required to report on the number of plastic bags for life sold as these are not within the scope of the carrier bag charge. However, they can provide this information voluntarily.</p><p> </p><p>The full datasets for each reporting year are on GOV.UK and can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charge-summary-of-data-in-england</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 78799 question first answered 02/09/2020 13:35:08 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1227507

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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	Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes
	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 the timeframe is for the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme in England.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys on 13 July 2020, PQ UIN 69511.</p><p> </p><p>https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-07-06/69511/</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/09/2020 14:05:27 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1227508

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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	Beaches and Countryside: Coronavirus
	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 additional funding his Department has provided for the clean up of beaches and local beauty spots since the lockdown restrictions were put in place due to the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>We recognise that in the current circumstances local authorities may have more challenges than usual, including when collecting waste. The Government has responded with an unprecedented £4.3 billion support package for local authorities. This includes £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced grants which can be used by councils to meet local priorities including, should they see fit, cleaning up beaches and local beauty spots.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has also supported, and provided funding for, Keep Britain Tidy's Love Parks campaign, which encourages people to treat our parks with respect this summer. Further information about the campaign is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/news/new-campaign-launched-face-littering-epidemic-parks" target="_blank">https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/news/new-campaign-launched-face-littering-epidemic-parks</a></p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Defra has launched a 'Respect the Outdoors' campaign this summer. This has been promoted both online and in locations near to urban parks, beaches and national parks to further highlight the impacts of littering, as well as unauthorised barbeques and campfires, and breaches of the countryside code.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/09/2020 13:48:28 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1285216

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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, what new powers he plans to afford to local authorities under changes to the local air quality management framework in the Environment Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	151795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>Local authorities already have a number of powers available to them to tackle air pollution – for example powers to tackle idling and smoke emissions from domestic chimneys.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Bill will improve the local air quality management framework to enable greater local action on air pollution by ensuring that responsibility for addressing air pollution is shared across a wider range of partners. We are amending the Local Air Quality Management Framework so that it brings in neighbouring authorities and where relevant, the Environment Agency, and can be extended to include additional relevant public authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Environment Bill we are also making it easier for local authorities to use their existing powers to tackle a major contributor to fine particulate matter emissions – domestic solid fuel burning, and are expanding the scope of the power for local authorities to enable them to tackle smoke emissions from vessels within a smoke control area.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 17/02/2021 14:57:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1285638

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2021
	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	Food: 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, what funding and resources the Government will make available to local authorities to support the requirement for weekly food waste collections set out in the Environment Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	152604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government will ensure that local authorities are resourced to meet net costs arising from new statutory duties. This will include the additional costs associated with the requirement to separately collect food waste at least once a week from households, introduced through the Environment Bill. This includes upfront transition costs and ongoing operational costs.</p><p> </p><p>We are carrying out a new burdens assessment for this policy and will provide further detail on new burdens funding in due course, following the outcome of the second consultation on recycling consistency, which we are preparing to launch in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 26/02/2021 14:20:39 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1299326

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	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	Food: Waste Management
	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 he is taking to encourage local authorities to implement weekly food waste collections in the immediate future ahead of New Burdens funding to support that collection which will be made available in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	162672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>The Environment Bill will require local authorities to arrange for the separate collection of food waste from households in England, at least once a week. Businesses and organisations will also be required to arrange for the separate collection of food waste. Ahead of implementation of this and other reforms to increase the consistency of recycling collected from households and businesses, we continue to work with local authorities, businesses, WRAP and other stakeholders to ensure the successful roll-out of separate food waste collections.</p><p /><p>The Government will ensure that local authorities are resourced to meet net costs arising from new statutory duties. This will include the additional costs associated with the requirement to separately collect food waste, including upfront transition costs and ongoing operational costs. We are carrying out a new burdens assessment for this policy and will provide further detail on new burdens funding in due course, following the outcome of the second consultation on recycling consistency, which we are preparing to launch in the spring. In this consultation, we expect to seek further views on implementing separate food waste collections, including transition timelines for local authorities and businesses, as well as statutory guidance for waste collectors.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/03/2021 13:48:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse