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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2023-09-06more like thismore than 2023-09-06
answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept id 13 more like this
answering dept short name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept sort name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
hansard heading Rivers and Seas and Oceans: Microplastics remove filter
house id 2 more like this
legislature
25277
pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve methods to measure the amount and types of microplastic and microfibres in rivers, lakes, seas and their sediments. more like this
tabling member printed
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle remove filter
uin HL9926 more like this
answer
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-09-15more like thismore than 2023-09-15
answer text <p>Defra intends to publish a report that it commissioned on improving the sampling and analytical protocols to determine the quantities, loads and types of microplastics in surface waters and sediments, later this year. Following this, working with the Environment Agency, Defra will consider the approaches to sampling surface waters and sediments to develop provisional standard operating procedure guidelines that will be used to improve sampling, processing and analysing of microplastics in river waters and sediments.</p> more like this
answering member printed Lord Benyon more like this
question first answered
less than 2023-09-15T12:16:57.7Zmore like thismore than 2023-09-15T12:16:57.7Z
answering member
1547
label Biography information for Lord Benyon more like this
tabling member
4719
label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle more like this