Resilient Coasts<\/em><\/a> project as well as the recent completion of a £2.3 million project protecting Felixstowe Ferry. The EA are supporting the East Suffolk Water Management Board to deliver the £12.2 million Upper Alde and Ore Estuary Project, which will protect Snape and Aldeburgh, and are also working with partners to develop projects for Pakefield, Southwold and Thorpeness.<\/p> <\/p>
The Government is committed to improving the quality of our bathing waters. Almost 90% of bathing waters in England met the highest standards of \u2018Good' or \u2018Excellent\u2019 in 2023, up from just 76% in 2010 and despite the classification standards becoming stricter in 2015. Suffolk has 7 designated bathing waters; last season 5 were classified as \u2018Excellent\u2019, 1 was classified as \u2018Good\u2019 and 1 was classified as \u2018Poor\u2019. The Environment Agency assesses what action is needed to improve water quality to meet the standards set by the Bathing Water Regulations. Action plans are in place at all \u2018Poor\u2019 bathing waters, including the River Deben Estuary, Waldringfield in Suffolk. This includes investigations into pollution sources and visits to farms and water company assets.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4861", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Robbie Moore"}
}
, "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Keighley"}
, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Robbie Moore"}
, "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2024-04-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2024-04-23T15:18:40.56Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
]}
, "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "13"}
, "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
, "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
, "date" : {"_value" : "2024-04-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Coastal Areas: Suffolk"}
, "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
, "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
}
], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help maintain (a) Suffolk's coastline and (b) the cleanliness of bathing water.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4098", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey"}
}
, "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Suffolk Coastal"}
, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Thérèse Coffey"}
], "uin" : "21637"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1700834", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1700834/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Rural Payment Agency estimate they have made 12,617 number of payments to Farm Businesses in (a) Suffolk and (b) Suffolk Coastal constituency in the last five years.<\/p>
<\/p>
The figures provided below relate to payments released within the specified financial years irrespective of the scheme year to which individual payments are related and only cover payments that are provided to farmers by the Rural Payment Agency. The volume of payments is based on a financial year and therefore a customer could have received a payment for 2 scheme years in the same financial year.<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>
Total Funding<\/p><\/td> | 2019- 2020<\/p><\/td> | 2020- 2021<\/p><\/td> | 2021 2022<\/p><\/td> | 2022 2023<\/p><\/td> | 2023 2024<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Financial Year<\/p><\/td> | Financial Year<\/p><\/td> | Financial Year<\/p><\/td> | Financial Year<\/p><\/td> | Financial Year<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
Total<\/strong><\/p><\/td>2605<\/strong><\/p><\/td>2524<\/strong><\/p><\/td>2461<\/strong><\/p><\/td>2501<\/strong><\/p><\/td>2526<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4055", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer"}
}
, "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Sherwood"}
, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Sir Mark Spencer"}
, "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2024-04-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2024-04-22T16:28:57.77Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
]}
, "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "13"}
, "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
, "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
, "date" : {"_value" : "2024-04-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Agriculture: Suffolk"}
, "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
, "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
}
], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of payments made to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency in (a) Suffolk and (b) Suffolk Coastal constituency in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4098", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey"}
}
, "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Suffolk Coastal"}
, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Thérèse Coffey"}
], "uin" : "21638"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1700836", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1700836/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "The methodology and data we currently use on the number and proportion of people with access to greenspace is taken from Natural England\u2019s Green Infrastructure (GI) Framework analysis.<\/p> <\/p> Natural England\u2019s analyses of the total population in England living in close proximity of greenspace are based on the GI Framework\u2019s Accessible Greenspace Standards which use buffers (straight-line distances) between home and greenspace and include three greenspace criteria:<\/p> | | | | | |