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1346719

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Water Supply: Housing
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 (a) adequacy of the level of competition within the residential water management industry and (b) effect of that level of competition on the amount customers pay in water bills.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	33309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>In November 2015, the UK Government asked Ofwat to assess the costs and benefits of extending retail competition to residential water customers in England. Ofwat's report did not indicate significant benefits for household customers and highlighted initial bill increases to fund the extension of the retail market.</p><p> </p><p>The industry is regulated to protect customers. As part of the recent Price Review process for 2020-2025, Ofwat challenged companies on efficiency and set out a package that will enable water companies to deliver more for people today, invest for future generations and reduce the average household bill by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/07/2021 12:31:49 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1346720

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Recycling
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 recycling rate has been for (a) England and (b) York in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	33259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>The national recycling rate for England and the local authority recycling rate for York City Council are shown below.</p><p> </p><p>The recycling rate for England is on a “waste from household” basis. Local authority recycling rates are not available on this basis so the “Household” recycling rate for York has been shown below.</p><p> </p><p>Recycling rates</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>England (Waste from households)</p></td><td><p>York City Council (Household waste)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>44.4%</p></td><td><p>42.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>45.1%</p></td><td><p>42.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>44.8%</p></td><td><p>44.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>45.1%</p></td><td><p>43.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>45.5%</p></td><td><p>48.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>i) Figures relate to the percentage of waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting, anaerobic digestion.</p><p> </p><p>ii) “Waste from households” is a harmonised measure used for reporting headline England and UK recycling rates. It is narrower in scope than “Household waste” excluding waste types not considered to have come directly from households such as street bins, street sweepings, parks and grounds.</p><p>More detail on the difference between these two measures can be found in the Local authority waste statistics <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results" target="_blank">publications</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/07/2021 12:46:27 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1346730

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Flood Control: Property
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 progress he has made on assessing the effectiveness of arrangements for responsibility for the property level resilience programme following the meeting between the hon. Member for York Central and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for his Department on 2 February 2021.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	33260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>In 2020, the joint Defra-industry Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Roundtable developed a code of practice which gives guidance and sets standards on delivery and scoping of PFR works. Further updates were published in February 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency is updating its national PFR procurement framework, the update will embed the Code of Practice. This is expected to be published by early 2022.</p><p>The Environment Agency is also funding training for partners, including local authorities, to strengthen consistency and confidence of PFR.</p><p> </p><p>Since February the Environment Agency have implemented several steps to help overcome delivery issues in York and to ensure that future PFR installations are delivered more efficiently. Installations have now been completed in 42 properties.</p><p> </p><p>In February this year, we launched a Call for Evidence on local factors in managing flood and coastal erosion risk and property flood resilience to inform PFR policy, including looking key enablers such as incentives, standards, and skills, as well as roles and responsibilities. We also published a consultation on changes to the Flood Re scheme to accelerate PFR uptake which included discounted premiums and increased claims to repair properties in a more resilient way. We will shortly publish a summary of responses to these documents.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/07/2021 12:20:38 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1346802

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	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, what weight his Department plans to give to advice from the Office for Environmental Protection given under Clause 29(3) of the Environment Bill; and whether that advice will be (a) requested and (b) published (i) in the event that any changes to the REACH Regulation are under consideration by his Department and (ii) in advance of any statutory change being laid.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	33339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government intends to fully consider any advice provided by the OEP. The OEP will build up comprehensive expertise and therefore a Minister may regularly ask it for advice. Clause 29(1) of the Environment Bill states that the Minister can ask the OEP to provide advice on proposed changes to environmental law, including any relevant amendments to the UK REACH Regulation. The Environment Bill states that the OEP must provide advice at the request of a Minister. The OEP may also provide advice on its own initiative to any proposed changes to environmental law as defined in clause 45. To maintain transparency and independence, the OEP must publish its advice as stated in clause 29(5). If a Minister required the OEP to provide advice, the OEP must also publish the request, along with any matters it was required to consider.</p><p> </p><p>The regulation-making powers and associated duties contained in Schedule 20 to the Environment Bill are also subject to parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative resolution procedure and potentially to judicial review.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/07/2021 13:20:20 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1346803

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	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, who will have responsibility for ensuring that duties created by clause 133 and schedule 20 on the amendment of the REACH regulation in the Environment Bill are enforced; and what methods will be used to assess compliance.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	33340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government intends to fully consider any advice provided by the OEP. The OEP will build up comprehensive expertise and therefore a Minister may regularly ask it for advice. Clause 29(1) of the Environment Bill states that the Minister can ask the OEP to provide advice on proposed changes to environmental law, including any relevant amendments to the UK REACH Regulation. The Environment Bill states that the OEP must provide advice at the request of a Minister. The OEP may also provide advice on its own initiative to any proposed changes to environmental law as defined in clause 45. To maintain transparency and independence, the OEP must publish its advice as stated in clause 29(5). If a Minister required the OEP to provide advice, the OEP must also publish the request, along with any matters it was required to consider.</p><p> </p><p>The regulation-making powers and associated duties contained in Schedule 20 to the Environment Bill are also subject to parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative resolution procedure and potentially to judicial review.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/07/2021 13:21:11 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1346804

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Animal Experiments
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 effectiveness of the strategies of (a) his Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive to increase the number of commercial service providers or research laboratories skilled in New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) data interpretation to deliver the Government’s commitment to reduce and replace animal testing for UK REACH.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	33341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>UK REACH sets out what information is needed to satisfy each hazard endpoint. This includes specifying in some, but not all cases, what studies are required, including non-animal methods where they are available. New test methods will be included through amendments to the Test Methods Regulation after development and validation through the OECD. The responsibility then lies on registrants to commission any studies they need to fulfil their UK REACH information requirements, following Good Laboratory Practice.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility to reduce and replace animal testing with alternative methods, including New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), lies with industry (within the confines of the appropriate legislation). We would anticipate that commercial service providers will develop and expand their services accordingly, as and when demand for these methods increases. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has an active role with a number of organisations to advise, influence and support those looking to develop and apply these alternative methods. Where animal studies are unavoidable the Home Office is responsible for licensing testing houses and individual procedures.</p><p> </p><p>HSE regulatory scientists, including toxicologists, are actively involved in monitoring and influencing the development of NAMs at both the domestic and international level which involves discussions and engagement with external experts in this field. HSE has recently appointed several independent experts who are familiar with NAMs to its UK REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool to provide independent expert advice on the safety and regulation of chemicals and support its scientific opinions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 33342 question first answered 19/07/2021 13:52:37 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1346805

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Chemicals: Safety
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 (a) his Department’s and (b) the Health and Safety Executive's progress in connecting their toxicologists with specialist providers of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and professionals who can interpret and apply the results of NAMs to inform decision making on the safety of chemicals and products.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	33342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>UK REACH sets out what information is needed to satisfy each hazard endpoint. This includes specifying in some, but not all cases, what studies are required, including non-animal methods where they are available. New test methods will be included through amendments to the Test Methods Regulation after development and validation through the OECD. The responsibility then lies on registrants to commission any studies they need to fulfil their UK REACH information requirements, following Good Laboratory Practice.</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility to reduce and replace animal testing with alternative methods, including New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), lies with industry (within the confines of the appropriate legislation). We would anticipate that commercial service providers will develop and expand their services accordingly, as and when demand for these methods increases. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has an active role with a number of organisations to advise, influence and support those looking to develop and apply these alternative methods. Where animal studies are unavoidable the Home Office is responsible for licensing testing houses and individual procedures.</p><p> </p><p>HSE regulatory scientists, including toxicologists, are actively involved in monitoring and influencing the development of NAMs at both the domestic and international level which involves discussions and engagement with external experts in this field. HSE has recently appointed several independent experts who are familiar with NAMs to its UK REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool to provide independent expert advice on the safety and regulation of chemicals and support its scientific opinions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 33341 question first answered 19/07/2021 13:52:37 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1346806

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	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, what assessment he has made of the (a) role of the US Centre for Computational Toxicology in advancing the development of New Approach Methodologies and (b) potential benefits to the UK of establishing a counterpart.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	33343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>We are not aware of the work that the US Center for Computational Toxicology (USCCT) is doing in advancing the development of New Approach Methodologies. We plan to get in touch with USCCT to find out more about its role in taking forward that work and how that links in with what we are doing on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/07/2021 12:34:14 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1346819

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Domestic Waste: Kirklees
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 household waste (a) in kilograms has been produced per person, (b) has been sent to landfill in tonnes and (c) has been recycled in tonnes in Kirklees in each of the last 11 years.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	33119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>Figures for Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council are calculated from data held in the WasteDataFlow web portal and are shown below. From 2015/16 disposal and treatment data was reported under a new question structure and figures for earlier years may contain inconsistencies. The tonnage of waste sent for energy recovery has also been shown in the table to add context to the figures.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Kirklees MBC</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Collected household waste per person (kg) (Ex BVPI 84a)</p></td><td><p>Household waste recycled (tonnes)</p></td><td><p>Household waste landfilled (tonnes)</p></td><td><p>Household waste sent for energy recovery (tonnes)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>434.3</p></td><td><p>54,168</p></td><td><p>17,188</p></td><td><p>101,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>420.9</p></td><td><p>57,757</p></td><td><p>7,783</p></td><td><p>103,256</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>405.3</p></td><td><p>56,550</p></td><td><p>8,175</p></td><td><p>100,765</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>383.5</p></td><td><p>53,055</p></td><td><p>8,500</p></td><td><p>99,374</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>398.1</p></td><td><p>52,530</p></td><td><p>11,067</p></td><td><p>103,382</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>400.0</p></td><td><p>47,378</p></td><td><p>15,677</p></td><td><p>104,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>399.9</p></td><td><p>49,678</p></td><td><p>19,860</p></td><td><p>101,848</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>382.8</p></td><td><p>50,549</p></td><td><p>9,842</p></td><td><p>106,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>366.8</p></td><td><p>43,709</p></td><td><p>4,411</p></td><td><p>112,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>360.2</p></td><td><p>38,443</p></td><td><p>12,758</p></td><td><p>106,516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>366.0</p></td><td><p>43,024</p></td><td><p>4,855</p></td><td><p>110,948</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Household waste sent for energy recovery (EfW) does not include waste sent for non EfW incineration.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/07/2021 13:58:54 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1346820

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Floods: Kirklees
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 homes in Kirklees were damaged by flooding in each of the last 11 years.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	33120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The numbers in the table below are derived from the number of homes that fall within the Environment Agency’s Recorded Flood Outline which is reviewed following each major flood. This data set records homes affected by flooding, rather than damaged by flooding, and includes homes where the flooding was restricted to gardens as well as those that flooded internally. This is the best available information held by the Environment Agency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of Properties Affected by Fluvial Flooding (Rivers)</p></td><td><p>Number of Properties affected by Other Sources of Flooding (can be assumed to be from Surface Water)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There may be additional homes that flooded during smaller flood events that the Environment Agency is not aware of, particularly where the flooding is due to surface water. The Local Authority may hold more information about these events.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/07/2021 13:17:23 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman