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1628937

registered interest
date	18/05/2023
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	Livestock: Disease 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, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the UK’s biosecurity arrangements on farm animal to human disease transmission.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	185850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>Zoonotic infections threaten both human and animal health. For zoonotic diseases, we have systems in place to detect and manage outbreaks, for both endemic (those that are already found in the UK) and exotic infections, collaborating closely with the public health agencies.</p><p> </p><p>There are several pathogens of animals which can potentially spread to humans as a result of the close interactions between humans and animals on farm, including Salmonella and Mycobacterium bovis, but incidents of this nature are rare. Nevertheless, we take biosecurity and protection of public health very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>Employers are required by law to prevent ill health to workers that may occur as a result of their business activities. Employers should undertake a risk assessment to help decide what actions they need to take to do this. The Health and Safety Executive regulates this.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to the strongest possible standards of protection against animal diseases including zoonotic pathogens. It is investing £1.4 million (including £200 million in this Spending Review period) to secure the long-term future of the Animal and Plant Health Agency Weybridge facility. This substantial investment recognises the essential role of this laboratory and will enable its excellent scientists to continue to protect the country, boosting our resilience and strengthening our understanding of health risks to, and from, animals and plants.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 23/05/2023 17:45:40 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1627922

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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 Charges: Social Tariffs
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 she plans to introduce a national scheme for social tariffs on water bills.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	184991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given on 3 February 2023 to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-01-30/135453" target="_blank">135453</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 18/05/2023 11:03:34 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611382

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Slurry Infrastructure Grant
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of slurry stores that will receive funding from successful applications to the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure Grant.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Defra has allocated £33.9 million to the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure grants. In March 2023, the Rural Payments Agency invited 374 projects to submit a full application. We plan for most projects to complete the full application process and receive a grant.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 20/04/2023 09:06:14 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611383

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Sewage: 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 recent assessment her Department has made on whether individual water companies can achieve targets set out the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/storm-overflows-discharge-reduction-plan" target="_blank">Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan</a> was launched in August 2022. Water companies are currently preparing their business plans as part of the planning cycle for 2025-2030 (PR24), setting out how they will achieve Government targets over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>Government is committing to review the targets in the plan in 2027. This will allow us to establish if companies can go further and faster to achieve the storm overflow targets in this Plan without having a disproportionate impact on consumers bills.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 09:00:22 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611384

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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 Companies: Pay
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 recent discussions her Department has had with (a) Ofwat and (b) other regulatory bodies on linking the pay of senior water company executives and directors to performance.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Government have been clear that companies must be transparent about aligning water company bonuses payment to delivery of services for customers, including environmental performance.</p><p> </p><p>We have had discussions with Ofwat on company performance, including the need to increase transparency. We are pleased that, in December 2022, Ofwat strengthened its powers on executive pay awards by setting out that shareholders, and not customers, will fund pay awards where companies do not demonstrate their decisions on pay awards reflects overall performance. We support Ofwat’s new guidance on the scope and implementation of this new measure, published in March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>This new measure will provide positive steps to protecting consumer interest and our environment.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 08:55:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1611385

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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 Charges: Sewers
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 recent estimate her Department has made on the average amount added to domestic water bills as a result of constructing new sewer systems.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	181013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Water infrastructure is funded through customer bills. Every five years, Ofwat sets an overall cap on the total amount that each water company may recover from their customers, through a process called the Price Review. As part of this process Ofwat balances the interests of the consumers with the ability for companies to finance the delivery of its services, including the removal of sewerage from homes and its treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The current price review period runs from 2020-2025 and the level of investment in this period is £51 billion. The average household bill is £448 in 2023-24, of which £233 is spent on sewerage services, which includes building and maintaining sewer pipes, pumping sewage to treatment works, treatment, flowing cleaned and treated wastewater back into rivers and the sea and converting solid material from sewage into gas for energy.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/04/2023 08:51:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1603987

registered interest
date	14/03/2023
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	Avian Influenza
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 recent assessment she has made of the spread of Avian Flu amongst domestically-kept bird flocks.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>Defra’s approach to avian influenza disease prevention and control measures are based on risk assessments containing the latest scientific and ornithological evidence and veterinary advice. To facilitate this the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) carry out routine surveillance of disease risks both in the UK and around the world to help Government anticipate future threats to animal health and understand the risk of spread of avian influenza in both kept and wild birds in Great Britain during outbreaks.</p><p> </p><p>The latest APHA outbreak and risk assessments are published and available on GOV.UK through the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/avian-influenza-bird-flu-in-europe" target="_blank">'Animal diseases: international and UK monitoring'</a> collection. In summary, APHA currently assess the risk of incursion of highly pathogenic (HPAI) avian influenza H5 in wild birds in Great Britain as very high (i.e. event occurs almost certainly). The risk of poultry exposure to HPAI H5 in Great Britain is currently assessed as high (with low uncertainty) where there are substantial biosecurity breaches and poor biosecurity and medium (i.e. event occurs regularly) (with medium uncertainty) where good biosecurity is applied.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/03/2023 13:32:54 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1603989

registered interest
date	14/03/2023
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	Avian Influenza
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 is her Department taking to inform domestic owners of bird flocks of compliance with any new Housing Orders to stop the spread of Avian Flu.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>To assist all bird keepers in instigating and maintaining good biosecurity including compliance with the mandatory Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) housing measures currently in force in England Defra have published biosecurity guidance available at Bird flu (avian influenza): how to prevent it and stop it spreading - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/bird-flu-avian-influenza-housing-your-birds-safely" target="_blank">Bird flu (avian influenza): housing your birds safely - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Defra and its delivery agency for disease control the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) utilise a range of communication channels to reach and inform domestic owners of bird flocks of this guidance and the latest situation and disease control measures, including, the use of social media, posters, radio adverts, podcasts, and video content. In addition to text and emails email alerts for those on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/poultry-including-game-birds-registration-rules-and-forms" target="_blank">poultry register</a> and those who have signed up to <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apha-alert-subscription-service." target="_blank">APHA disease alert subscription service</a>.</p><p>Defra also issue national, local and trade press releases to make sure the latest information is communicated through the media. In addition to this we keen a rolling gov.uk news story with live updates as new advice and cases emerge. During the avian influenza outbreak the UK Chief Veterinary Officer has regularly been interviewed about the avian influenza situation and advice by journalists from multiple national news outlets. Defra spokespeople have also undertaken interviews with regional television and radio broadcasters from a range of channels across the country to raise awareness of the disease control measures that are in force.</p><p>Defra regularly meets with representatives of the Local Authority National Animal Health and Welfare Panel to review and refine the approach to guidance and the enforcement of disease prevention and controls. Government is also working closely with key stakeholders including commercial, small scale, pet and specialist bird keepers, together with ornithological, veterinary, wildlife rehabilitation sector representatives, to communicate developments and reiterate the importance of biosecurity.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/03/2023 13:26:47 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1603990

registered interest
date	14/03/2023
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	Avian Influenza
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 her Department is taking to monitor compliance of any new Housing Orders for bird flocks belonging to domestic owners to stop the spread of Avian Flu.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	165284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>Avian influenza disease prevention and controls, including the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone mandatory housing measures, are enforced by local authorities. They take a proportionate approach to non-compliance. We are in regular contact with local authorities and details of compliance and enforcement are shared with Defra by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) Regulatory Affairs and Intelligence team. APHA chairs regular outbreak enforcement meetings which are attended by representatives from local authority Trading Standards teams from across Great Britain together with policy representatives from Defra, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/03/2023 13:44:29 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1600754

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
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	Peatlands: North of England
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 she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of her Department’s long-term financial support for the Great North Bog Project.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	156958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMS) already pay for actions related to upland peat and moorlands, and we plan to extend the current offer including for new actions for restoring degraded peatland and maintaining restored peatland. The Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme – of which the Great North Bog is a recipient – has provided useful learning to inform ELMS, including for Landscape Recovery, which supports landscape-scale projects such as this.</p><p>As ELMS will provide the main delivery mechanism for peatland restoration from 2025, we are working with our peatland restoration delivery partners to enable a smooth transition for these partners whose work is invaluable in meeting our ambitious peatland restoration targets.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 07/03/2023 15:09:08 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis