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1564981

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: 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, if she will publish storm overflow spill data obtained through event duration monitoring for 2022.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	119195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>Every April the EA publish a report showing the number and duration of spills over the previous year here: <a href="https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac" target="_blank">https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac</a>. They will publish the data for 2022 in April 2023.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 18/01/2023 10:34:12 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1564986

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: 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, if she will make an estimate of the number of birds that have been culled as a result of avian flu by species since 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	119196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>To prevent further spread of avian influenza birds on an infected premises are humanely culled. During the current highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreak (26 October 2021 to 10 January 2023) 7.48 million birds have died or been culled for avian influenza disease control purposes including 4.59 million chickens, 1.79 million turkeys, 980 thousand ducks, 48 thousand geese, 31 thousand quail, 35 thousand gamebirds and 7 thousand other captive birds.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 18/01/2023 12:13:21 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1564988

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Milk
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 her Department is taking steps to help ensure that there will be an adequate supply of milk to meet consumer demand in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	119198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The UK has a dynamic and resilient dairy industry and I am confident of its ability to continue to supply high quality fresh milk and dairy products to consumers. Defra continues to closely monitor the dairy market and maintains regular engagement with key dairy industry representatives.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 16/01/2023 12:07:30 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1564989

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Eggs: Prices
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 she is taking to help tackle the increase in the cost of eggs.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	119199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The UK egg industry operates in an open market and the value of egg commodities, including the farm gate egg price, is established by those in the supply chain including farmers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and consumers. While government may act in exceptional circumstances, we do not set retail food prices nor comment on day-to-day commercial decisions by companies.</p><p>I hosted an egg industry roundtable on 6 December 2022. This involved representatives from across the UK egg supply chain. The Roundtable focused on the various challenges that the sector is currently facing including the increase in input costs caused by the war in Ukraine and the impact of avian influenza. The meeting was productive and conducted in a spirit of co-operation with a clear willingness from all parties to address issues affecting the supply chain.</p><p>Defra continues to monitor the egg market and to work closely with the sector.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 16/01/2023 12:15:37 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1543208

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
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	Floods: Housing
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 houses were damaged by flooding in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	89881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) records properties (homes and businesses) affected by large flood events, through information provided during incidents, or through working with communities recovering from flooding. The EA does not distinguish between homes and businesses for large flood events. The table below provides the EA estimates for the number of properties flooded, but not necessarily damaged, during significant flood events since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities or Lead Local Flood Authorities may hold more detailed information for smaller scale events, and events where surface water was the major cause of flooding. Where Lead Local Flood Authorities hold more information, they publish this through Section 19 reports.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2015 and March 2021, the Government invested £2.6 billion in its first 6-year flood and coastal defence programme for England. This programme exceeded its target of better protecting 300,000 homes. The Government announced in 2020 that the amount invested in the 2021-2027 investment programme would be doubled in England to £5.2 billion, providing around 2,000 flood defences to better protect communities across England. Every English region is forecast to receive more investment in flood and coastal defences in this programme compared to the previous 2015 to 2021 investment programme.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Flood event</p></td><td><p>Properties flooded</p></td><td><p>Properties protected</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>Cornwall (Nov)</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide (Mar -Dec)</p></td><td><p>7,900</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide / East Coast (Dec -May)</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td><td><p>1.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>North of England (Dec - Jan) Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank</p></td><td><p>17,000</p></td><td><p>23,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>South East/ Midlands - Thunderstorms (May)</p></td><td><p>600 (+300 unconfirmed)</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>East / Midlands/ South East (June)</p></td><td><p>383</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20 (winter)</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide (Nov-Feb)</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>130,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; N England (7-22 Nov)</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>22,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>Cornwall and South (19-23 Dec)</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>22,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Ciara (9-14 Feb)</p></td><td><p>1,346</p></td><td><p>23,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Dennis (16-23 Feb)</p></td><td><p>1,569</p></td><td><p>25,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Late Feb (24-29)</p></td><td><p>516</p></td><td><p>35,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Bella (14-17 Dec) and Heavy rain (17- 31 Dec) Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Northampton, Rugby</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Christoph (18-20 Jan) North Wales and northern England</p></td><td><p>675</p></td><td><p>49,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Dudley, Eunice, Franklin (15-22 Feb)</p></td><td><p>372</p></td><td><p>35,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 89882 question first answered 23/11/2022 09:51:03 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1543209

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
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	Floods: Business
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 businesses have had properties damaged by flooding in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	89882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) records properties (homes and businesses) affected by large flood events, through information provided during incidents, or through working with communities recovering from flooding. The EA does not distinguish between homes and businesses for large flood events. The table below provides the EA estimates for the number of properties flooded, but not necessarily damaged, during significant flood events since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities or Lead Local Flood Authorities may hold more detailed information for smaller scale events, and events where surface water was the major cause of flooding. Where Lead Local Flood Authorities hold more information, they publish this through Section 19 reports.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2015 and March 2021, the Government invested £2.6 billion in its first 6-year flood and coastal defence programme for England. This programme exceeded its target of better protecting 300,000 homes. The Government announced in 2020 that the amount invested in the 2021-2027 investment programme would be doubled in England to £5.2 billion, providing around 2,000 flood defences to better protect communities across England. Every English region is forecast to receive more investment in flood and coastal defences in this programme compared to the previous 2015 to 2021 investment programme.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Flood event</p></td><td><p>Properties flooded</p></td><td><p>Properties protected</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>Cornwall (Nov)</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide (Mar -Dec)</p></td><td><p>7,900</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide / East Coast (Dec -May)</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td><td><p>1.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>North of England (Dec - Jan) Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank</p></td><td><p>17,000</p></td><td><p>23,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>South East/ Midlands - Thunderstorms (May)</p></td><td><p>600 (+300 unconfirmed)</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>East / Midlands/ South East (June)</p></td><td><p>383</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20 (winter)</strong></p></td><td><p>Nationwide (Nov-Feb)</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>130,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; N England (7-22 Nov)</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>22,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>Cornwall and South (19-23 Dec)</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>22,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Ciara (9-14 Feb)</p></td><td><p>1,346</p></td><td><p>23,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Dennis (16-23 Feb)</p></td><td><p>1,569</p></td><td><p>25,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Late Feb (24-29)</p></td><td><p>516</p></td><td><p>35,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Bella (14-17 Dec) and Heavy rain (17- 31 Dec) Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Northampton, Rugby</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Christoph (18-20 Jan) North Wales and northern England</p></td><td><p>675</p></td><td><p>49,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p>Storm Dudley, Eunice, Franklin (15-22 Feb)</p></td><td><p>372</p></td><td><p>35,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 89881 question first answered 23/11/2022 09:51:03 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1537702

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Email
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 guidance her Department provides to Ministers on the use of personal email accounts for the conduct of public business.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	74820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2022 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has published guidance to departments on the use of private email that covers how information is held for the purposes of access to information, and how formal decisions are recorded for the official record. This guidance is being updated to reflect changes in technology and ways of working, and will be published by the Cabinet Office in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is Government policy not to comment on individual Ministers’ security arrangements. Ministers receive support and expert advice to help them meet their obligations in the most appropriate and secure fashion. That includes regular security briefings for Ministers, and advice on protecting their personal data and mitigating cyber threats.</p><p> </p><p>There is a place for the use of a variety of digital channels in fast moving modern environments. Ministers will have informal conversations from time to time, in person or remotely, and relevant content from such discussions is passed back to officials. They will also use a variety of digital communications channels for personal, political and Parliamentary matters.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 74821 question first answered 04/11/2022 12:07:16 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1537840

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Email
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 her predecessors forwarded official documents from their government emails to their personal email addresses from 24 July 2019 to 25 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	74821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2022 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has published guidance to departments on the use of private email that covers how information is held for the purposes of access to information, and how formal decisions are recorded for the official record. This guidance is being updated to reflect changes in technology and ways of working, and will be published by the Cabinet Office in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is Government policy not to comment on individual Ministers’ security arrangements. Ministers receive support and expert advice to help them meet their obligations in the most appropriate and secure fashion. That includes regular security briefings for Ministers, and advice on protecting their personal data and mitigating cyber threats.</p><p> </p><p>There is a place for the use of a variety of digital channels in fast moving modern environments. Ministers will have informal conversations from time to time, in person or remotely, and relevant content from such discussions is passed back to officials. They will also use a variety of digital communications channels for personal, political and Parliamentary matters.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer grouped question UIN 74820 question first answered 04/11/2022 12:07:16 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1524114

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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	Farmers
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 he will publish a breakdown of the number of farmers in (a) England and (b) Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	67156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of farmers (including full time, part time; and farmers, partners, directors and spouses) are available for England at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fagricultural-workforce-in-england-at-1-june&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4d27c11928e0481af4b308dab5b1cbe1%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638022072479829166%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=L%2BkWZ72hPNiFNP65347pdBxWhM99BT%2BcAJv7ip6TrDQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Agricultural workforce in England at 1 June - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Agriculture is a devolved matter so Defra are only responsible for collecting data on English farms.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Agricultural workforce</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Farmers, partners, directors and spouses (number of people)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p><strong>170,478</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p><strong>174,193</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p><strong>173,124</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p><strong>171,623</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p><strong>173,697</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p><strong>173,963</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p><strong>173,083</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p><strong>174,765</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p><strong>178,128</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p><strong>179,872</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p><strong>181,895</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p><strong>179,029</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p><strong>179,769</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 25/10/2022 14:28:54 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1524115

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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	Farmers: Termination of Employment
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 he will publish a breakdown of the number of farmers that have left the profession in (a) England and (b) Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	67157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We do not collect data on the numbers of farmers who leave the industry each year so no data is available for England. Agriculture is a devolved matter so we cannot provide comment on whether any Welsh data exists.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 25/10/2022 15:17:07 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon