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1484739

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date	29/06/2022
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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Staff
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 23 June 2022 to Question 18814 on Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Staff, what are the roles of the 14 staff who work at the Joint Unit on Waste Crime as on 29 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>1 x Manager</p><p>1 x Senior Team leader</p><p>1 x Technical officer</p><p>8 x Environmental Crime Officers</p><p>1 x Digital researcher</p><p>1 x Communications and engagement officer</p><p>1 x HMRC intelligence officer</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 04/07/2022 08:10:23 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1484741

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2022 to Question 18820 on Waste Management, when he plans to implement reforms to the waste carrier, broker, dealer regime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>We expect to publish the response to the recent consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double question first answered 11/07/2022 16:46:48 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1484743

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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	Waste Disposal: Prosecutions
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 23 June 2022 to Question 18812 on Joint Unit for Waste Crime, how many and what proportion of those associated arrests led to (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>These arrests were carried out by other agencies for non-waste crime offences so this is not data held by the Joint Unit for Waste Crime.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 04/07/2022 08:14:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1473186

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime
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 23 June 2022 to Question 18812, on Joint Unit for Waste Crime, what the meaning of associated arrests is.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	24554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>'Associated arrests' relates to arrests carried out by other agencies during the investigation, but as a direct result of the activity either at the location of the intervention or as a result of intelligence gained during the intervention. For example, by the police for offences including theft, handling stolen goods, etc.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/06/2022 07:54:11 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470627

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	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, whether he has plans to create a fit and proper person test for people operating waste management companies.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The requirement to demonstrate competence for waste site permits is well established.</p><p>In 2019 the Government strengthened the regulators' assessment and enforcement of operator competence to raise the standard of competence across all permitted waste sites. This included expanding the list of convictions to be taken into account when assessing permit applications to include, for example, offences related to organised crime and violent or threatening behaviour as well offences relating to fraud and tax evasion.</p><p>The Government also recently consulted on reform of the waste carrier, broker, dealer regime and expect to publish the response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/06/2022 16:35:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470698

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Environment Agency: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the number of prosecutions undertaken by the Environment Agency has declined every year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Taking cases forward to prosecution is only one part of the Environment Agency's (EA) overall enforcement activity. Other interventions such as Notices requiring action and civil sanctions are quicker and can be effective in securing good outcomes for the environment in different ways.</p><p>The Regulatory Enforcement &amp; Sanctions (RES) Act 2008 made civil sanctions available to the EA to use from 2011. The number of enforcement undertakings accepted by the EA under the RES Act has nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This has included, for example, the compensation of £975,000 made by Wessex Water following sewage pollution at Swanage Harbour in November 2018.</p><p>The EA focuses prosecutions on the most serious and harmful pollution cases, allowing it to focus resources where the impact is greatest. We still take the most serious cases to court. The size of fines for environmental offences are at the highest they have ever been, and custodial sentences are now being imposed regularly for environmental offences.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/06/2022 16:41:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones