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1695695

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Water Supply
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 of the potential impact of trends in the number of (a) data centres and (b) AI infrastructure on demand for water in the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	18377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Environment Agency will be publishing its updated National Framework for Water Resources in 2025. This will reflect the expectation that regional water resources plans explore opportunities to deliver cross sector mutual benefits, as set out in a joint letter from Government and water regulators to regional water resources groups in January 2023.</p><p> </p><p>This will include the need to work with data centre and AI industries to establish and understand their potential water demands, seeking to identify potential mutually beneficial solutions.</p><p> </p><p>In some parts of England which are designated as water stressed, water companies may not be able to supply the required volume of water. The data centre and AI industry will need to investigate and plan for alternative sources of water, including on site water storage and water recycling.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 25/03/2024 13:55:43 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1695774

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Neonicotinoids
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 he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the further authorisation of the emergency use of neonicotinoids on global pesticide reduction targets.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	18414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The decision to authorise the short-term emergency use of a pesticide is never taken lightly and is based on robust assessment of the risks and benefits. The emergency authorisation we have issued this year for the use of a neonicotinoid on sugar beet is subject to strict conditions to mitigate risks to the wider environment.</p><p> </p><p>We remain absolutely committed to the targets agreed in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. UK diplomatic leadership was critical to agreeing the framework and we will continue to champion the framework’s implementation.</p><p> </p><p>We welcome the text in target 7, as Integrated Pest Management (IPM) lies at the heart of the UK's approach to minimise the environmental impact of pesticides.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government recently held a roundtable with members of the British sugar industry and environmental organisations to discuss the industry’s progress on implementing alternative pest control measures to neonicotinoids. I urge British Sugar and others in the sector to drive forward these plans, so that their outputs can be implemented in the field at pace.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 17:58:08 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1695792

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Village Halls: Finance
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 paragraph 5.141 of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, when the Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Fund will open to new applicants.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	18506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>We are aiming to open the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund to new applications before the summer 2024. Further detail and guidance will be made available shortly on the delivery organisation’s website (Action with Communities in Rural England).</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 21/03/2024 15:29:54 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

1695799

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fraud and Maladministration
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 report entitled Cross-Government Fraud Landscape: Annual Report 2022, published on 21 March 2023, what the basis is of the increase in detected error in his Department rom £9.5m in 2019-20 to £15.9m in 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>In reference to the hon. Member’s question, the Fraud Landscape Report figures were reported to the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA, formerly the Counter Fraud Centre of Expertise) as part of established reporting cycles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government defines error as losses arising from unintentional events, processing errors and official Government errors - such losses are judged as without fraudulent intent.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2014, Fraud Landscape Reports show an increase in both detected fraud and error across government. This is in line with the Government's explicit objective to find more fraud in the system. By detecting more, we can understand fraud better - and deal with it better.</p><p> </p><p>The Defra detected error in 2019/20 was published in the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F602a86148fa8f50381945ce2%2F2609-Executive-Summary-Fraud-Landscape-Bulletin-V7.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccorporatepqs%40defra.gov.uk%7C3563d25675f74f0b5d3208dc4809cd17%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638464454128300310%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Le4JSd1FNArZLosREy9ztDXr6H%2F3L3%2FsJSb5q4ICPg0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Fraud Landscape Bulletin</a> and in 2020/21 was published in the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F641c158b32a8e0000cfa9251%2F2974_Fraud_Landscape_Annual_Report_2022_.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccorporatepqs%40defra.gov.uk%7C3563d25675f74f0b5d3208dc4809cd17%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638464454128311600%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2Fcf84LxOP4WfFpRnxgGm2tDmdFga8nbw3SLO0Qyi0Os%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Fraud Landscape Report</a>. The reasons for any increase are set out in these documents as well as in our <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F635a7f1e8fa8f5653f83f4f0%2Fdefra-annual-report-2021-2022.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccorporatepqs%40defra.gov.uk%7C3563d25675f74f0b5d3208dc4809cd17%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638464454128318506%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LWNmDQ69nRq9Ydq03P%2Fhq19FmLUZjly9Q2sohP%2BC3Jg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The PSFA assists ministerial departments and public bodies in their delivery of specialist fraud activity. In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 17:43:56 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1695804

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	White Fish
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 pollack were sampled by his Department for (a) length and (b) sex in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	18467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>You asked how many pollack were sampled by the Department for (a) length and (b) sex in the last twelve months. Data has been provided for the twelve months of 2023, as pollack collected in 2024 have not yet been analysed.</p><p> </p><p>3,237 pollack lengths were measured by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in 2023. Cefas are unable to determine the sex of the fish sampled because they are landed gutted. These pollack were sampled across all quarters of 2023 on a total of 64 trips in the southwest of England.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 17:56:25 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1695805

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	White Fish
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 pollack otoliths were collected by his Department in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	18468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>You asked how many pollack otoliths were collected by the Department in the last twelve months. Data has been provided for the twelve months of 2023, as otoliths collected in 2024 have not yet been analysed.</p><p> </p><p>643 (out of a target of 597) pollack otoliths were collected by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in 2023. These otoliths were collected in all quarters of 2023 on a total of 64 trips in the southwest of England.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 17:39:11 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1695806

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	White Fish
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 pollack otoliths were analysed by his Department in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	18469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>You asked how many pollack otoliths were analysed by the Department in the last twelve months. Data has been provided for the twelve months of 2023, as otoliths collected in 2024 have not yet been analysed.</p><p> </p><p>643 (out of a target of 597) pollack otoliths were analysed by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in 2023. These otoliths were collected in all quarters of 2023 on a total of 64 trips in the southwest of England.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 17:36:54 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1695885

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Flood Control: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2024 to Question 15154 Flood Control: Finance, in which local authority areas the completed flood defences are located; what type of flood defences they are; and how many homes are protected by those flood defences in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	18568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>We are in the third year of the current <ins class="ministerial">six</ins><del class="ministerial">6</del>-year £5.2 billion <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-an-investment-plan-for-2021-to-2027" target="_blank">Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) investment programme</a>. This investment programme will better protect hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses from flooding and coastal erosion. At the end of March 2023, approximately £1.5 billion of this funding has been invested with 60,000 properties better protected from flooding and coastal erosion. This was delivered through over 200 completed schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Below is a table which shows properties better protected by Local Authority boundary between April 2021 and March 2023. The figures include Environment Agency, Local Authority, and Internal Drainage Board flood and coastal risk management projects that fall within that boundary. We are unable to provide a breakdown of the type of flood defences for each authority. However, the Environment Agency’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/programme-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-schemes" target="_blank">Programme of flood and coastal erosion risk management</a> shows completed FCERM schemes within the previous <ins class="ministerial">six</ins><del class="ministerial">6</del>-year investment programme (2015-2021), and the first year of the current capital investment programme (2021-2027) which are now better protecting homes.</p><p> </p><p>Each year the Environment Agency also produced a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-risk-management-national-report" target="_blank">summary </a>of flood and coastal erosion risk management work carried out by risk management authorities in England. This is required under Section 18 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. When the current FCERM investment programme ends, after March 2027, the Environment Agency will publish a report with a breakdown of spending, similar to the report published in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-capital-investment-programme-headline-benefits/flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-assessment-of-benefit-of-the-2015-to-2021-capital-investment-programme#:~:text=Between%202015%20and%202021%20government,flood%20and%20coastal%20erosion%20risk." target="_blank">2022</a> after the 2015-2021 investment programme.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the table attached. Notes for the table:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The figures are based on the best available information.</li><li>Flood and coastal schemes built in one Local Authority boundary may benefit under another Local Authority Boundary.</li><li>Projects that cross multiple boundaries have been grouped together under the ‘cross-boundary projects’ row.</li><li>The properties were better protected between April 2021 and March 2023. The April 2023 to March 2024 figures have not yet been finalised.</li></ul> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 20/03/2024 15:51:48 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2024 15:52:31 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore attachment 1 file name PQ 18568 attachment.xlsx title 18568 Attachment previous answer version 24852 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1695895

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Flood Control
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 page 13 of the the National Audit Office report entitled Resilience to flooding, published on 15 November 2023, how many (a) projects have been cancelled and (b) homes will no longer be better protected; and where those homes are located, by local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	18569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>In March 2020, the Government doubled its investment in flood defences to a record £5.2 billion between 2021 and 2027 to better protect communities across England from flooding and coastal erosion. Since April 2021, over £1.5 billion has been invested in over 200 flood protection schemes, better protecting over 71,000 properties.</p><p> </p><p>The capital investment programme is annually reviewed and updated to accommodate changes, including the introduction of new schemes or urgent works.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware of the challenges and delays caused by inflation and the availability of skills and labour across the sector. The start of the programme was also impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in fewer people to develop projects and delayed mobilisation of construction activity.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the NAO report, the Environment Agency forecast that 1,500 projects will provide better protection to 200,000 properties by the end of the programme in March 2027.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery is the Government’s key priority, and we are working with the Environment Agency to review the programme in the light of the impacts of inflation and the pandemic. More information will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 25/03/2024 13:51:54 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1695896

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Flood Control: Lowestoft
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 status of the Lowestoft Tidal Barrier following the reduction in the number of projects to be completed by the Environment Agency as part of its programme of flood and coastal erosion risk management schemes to 2027.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	18570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>In March 2020, the government doubled its investment in flood defences to a record £5.2 billion between 2021 and 2027 to better protect communities across England from flooding and coastal erosion. Since April 2021, over £1.5 billion has been invested in over 200 flood protection schemes, better protecting over 71,000 properties.</p><p>Defra has allocated over £80 million to the Lowestoft Flood Risk Management Scheme. The first two of three phases have been completed successfully.</p><p>Like many other infrastructure projects, cost have increased significantly over the last years. Defra is aware that East Suffolk Council halted the scheme in January due to a significant funding shortfall.</p><p>Defra would encourage the council to work with EA and other potential partners to explore additional funding in line with Government’s Partnership Funding principles.</p><p> </p><p>The EA and Defra are continuing to engage with East Suffolk Council to identify options for developing a viable proposal.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 25/03/2024 15:40:28 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy