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1470614

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date	15/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he is taking steps to help increase awareness in the defence industry of the meaning of social value during the tendering process.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has engaged with Defence Industry regarding social value from before the Policy was launched and subsequently. The MOD has a social value team whose remit includes engaging with defence industry. Under the umbrella of the Defence Supplier Forum a dedicated Social Value working group has been established, with the aim of promoting understanding, sharing best practice and lessons learnt.</p><p> </p><p>The working group is co-chaired with Industry and has attracted high levels of interest, it includes representatives from small and medium sized enterprises, trade bodies, mid-tier, as well as strategic suppliers. Members of the MOD's social value team regularly speak at a range of events, organised by industry bodies, and others raising awareness and understanding of social value.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/06/2022 12:55:32 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470615

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	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, what assessment he has made of the performance of the Joint Unit on Waste Crime since its introduction in combatting (a) waste crime and (b) the increase in the involvement of organised crime in the waste industry.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>In the two years since its launch in January 2020 the Joint Unit for Waste Crime has worked with over 50 partner organisations and engaged in 74 multi-agency days of action. These have resulted in 52 associated arrests. It is the lead responsible organisation for four organised criminal groups. There have been a number of multi-agency interventions against these groups, including refusal of permits, intelligence-targeted waste sampling and spray marking, and intelligence-led road stops.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/06/2022 17:15:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470616

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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: 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, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current funding model for the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has ensured that recent additional funding to the Environment Agency (EA) to tackle waste crime is now part of its baseline, and so, the EA is able to prioritise funding for the Joint Unit for Waste Crime more effectively.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/06/2022 16:10:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470617

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	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, how many personnel are currently employed full-time to the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Joint Waste Crime Team currently employs 14 staff.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/06/2022 17:12:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470620

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees of HM Revenue and Customs are currently permanently deployed to the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text HMRC has no permanently deployed resource to the Joint Unit of Waste Crime (JUWC), and do not feel that a permanently deployed resource to the JUWC would be needed at this time. The JUWC is mainly resourced with staff from the Environment Agency, and the main focus of the JUWC work is not tax compliance. answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/06/2022 16:30:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470621

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: 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, whether he plans to assess the cost of waste crime to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The Environmental Services Association (ESA) estimates the cost of waste crime to the English economy in the 2018/19 financial year at £924 million. Scaled up to UK-level, the cost is estimated to be a little over £1 billion. The work done on behalf of ESA uses data produced by sources including HMRC, the Environment Agency (EA) and Defra, as well as EA analysis into costs and impacts of waste crime.</p><p>We have already taken action by introducing new powers to stop illegal waste sites posing a risk to the environment, including the ability to lock up sites and to force rogue operators to clean up all their waste. Building on this, measures in the Environment Act 2021 give agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crimes. We have also set up the Joint Unit for Waste Crime to disrupt serious and organised waste crime and reduce its impact.</p><p>Our electronic waste tracking reforms will make it harder than ever to mis-identify waste or dispose of it inappropriately. Planned changes to the Carriers, Brokers and Dealers licensing regime will modernise licensing and make it even harder for rogue operators to escape detection. We will also soon publish our plans for reform of the exemptions regime, removing opportunities for criminals to abuse the system.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/06/2022 16:35:32 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470623

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fly-tipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current funding model for the Highways Agency in relation to fulfilling their functions in the clean-up of fly-tipping incidents.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>As part of the second Road Investment Strategy, Government is providing £24 billion to fund infrastructure, maintenance and operations on the Strategic Road Network and that funding covers work towards performance targets including on litter. This focuses on parts of the Strategic Road Network that National Highways is responsible for cleansing and measures the percentage of network where litter is graded at B or above, according to the Code of Practice on litter and refuse.</p><p> </p><p>This provides an incentive for National Highways to do more to combat litter and fly-tipping on the Strategic Road Network. National Highways is funded in five-year periods; we are currently developing the third Road Investment Strategy (2025-2030) which provides an opportunity to set out our performance requirements and the associated funding required.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 24/06/2022 13:23:26 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470624

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Waste: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many employees of the Serious Fraud Office were deployed to combat money laundering created through waste crime as of 15 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) does not structure its employees around particular categories of financial crime and therefore does not hold data on the number of employees deployed to combat money laundering created through waste crime.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 21/06/2022 17:52:48 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470625

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	Electronic Equipment: Waste Disposal
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 is taking steps to ensure the safe export of e-waste.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>There are a number of legal mechanisms in place to control the export of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), and to ensure that when WEEE is exported it is managed safely. These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A ban on exporting WEEE from the UK for disposal;</li><li>A ban on exporting hazardous WEEE from the UK to countries which are not members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development;</li><li>A requirement for those involved in the export of waste, including WEEE, to take all necessary steps to ensure the waste is managed in an environmentally sound manner throughout its shipment and during its recycling or recovery;</li><li>A requirement for businesses to obtain approval from the Environment Agency (EA) to export whole items of WEEE or WEEE derived materials.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous waste, to which the UK is a Party, agreed changes on 15th June which will further tighten international controls on the export of WEEE. The UK Government supports these changes which, from 2025, will require exporters to obtain prior consent from the Competent Authority in both the country of dispatch and destination to export all types of WEEE for recycling.</p><p> </p><p>The EA regulates the export of waste in England, including WEEE. EA officers carry out pro-active and intelligence led inspections to stop waste shipments that breach regulations before they leave ports. In 2020-21, 869 containers were stopped, of which 176 were returned to a waste site as they were unsuitable for export; 27 of those containers were found to contain WEEE.</p><p> </p><p>Any UK operator found to be illegally exporting waste can face a two-year jail term and an unlimited fine.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 20/06/2022 16:06:34 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