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1471745

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Long Term Unemployed People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the prevalence of speech, language and communication needs among the long-term unemployed in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	21075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer given to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-06-09/15249" target="_blank">PQ15249</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/06/2022 09:48:27 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1466342

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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 Protection
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 financial impact for relevant industries of delays by the Environment Agency in issuing permits; and what estimate he has made of the amount of UK investment lost to overseas markets as a result of those delays.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of delays in processing permit applications at the Environment Agency or the potential effect of those delays. Each application for a permit is considered on its own merit and it is important that they are assessed thoroughly.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/06/2022 12:31:40 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1466343

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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: Environment Protection
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 the average length of time was for the Environment Agency to process a waste operation permit application from point of first application to final determination for the 2021-22 financial year; and what proportion of those applications took longer than six months to process.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The Environment Agency determined 221 new bespoke (tailored to a specific business activity) and standard rules waste permits (a set of fixed rules for common activities) for the financial year 2021-22.</p><p> </p><p>The average period from when the permit application was received to when a permit was issued was 226 days. Of the 221 applications determined - 48% took over 6 months (180 days).</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/06/2022 15:11:52 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1466345

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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: Environment Protection
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 the average length of time was for the Environment Agency to process a waste installation permit application from point of first application to final determination for the 2021-22 financial year; and what proportion of those applications took longer than six months to process.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) determined 28 new waste installation permits for the financial year 2021-22. Waste installation permits are required for activities such as incineration and co-incineration of waste, landfills, other forms of disposal of waste, recovery of waste, temporary or underground storage of hazardous waste and treatment of wastewater.</p><p> </p><p>The average period from the point the EA received a permit application to when a permit was issued was 378 days. Of the 28 applications determined - 89% took over 6 months (180 days).</p><p> </p><p>These are some of the most complex and highest risk activities the EA regulates. These activities have the potential to cause significant harm to the environment and communities if not appropriately assessed and managed.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/06/2022 15:01:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1466346

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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: Licensing
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 the Environment Agency is taking to speed up its environmental permitting service.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) is working through a backlog of work. Where appropriate it is expediting critical cases and those linked to Government priorities such as green growth and infrastructure. The EA is taking significant steps to recover and improve services going forward: actively recruiting more staff and using rolling recruitment campaigns. It has brought in contractors and reassignment of staff from its laboratory service no longer required to support Coronavirus sewage testing.</p><p> </p><p>A rigorous improvement programme is in place to drive efficiency and better responsiveness to business, including the introduction of more specialist teams to deliver complex and high environmental risk work as well as improved advice for applicants. The recent Government Spending Review allocated significant funding to the EA for modernised digital systems. These will improve both the pace of permitting and provide better platforms for its customers to make applications on in future.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/06/2022 16:47:11 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1466356

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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: Environment Protection
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 the Environment Agency applies the polluter pays principle as part of the environmental permitting process for municipal waste incinerators when balancing the (a) cost to the public of increased pollution with (b) any additional cost to the applicant of additional or alternative measures, technologies or techniques that would lower emissions.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	9833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The polluter pays principle is applied through the permit application fee and subsequent operational subsistence fees. An operator will face incremental increases in their subsistence fees if they breach the conditions of their permit. The EA also has an enforcement and sanctions policy which includes the use of monetary penalties for offences.</p><p> </p><p>The EA will only issue a permit for a municipal waste incinerator if the applicant can demonstrate that they will use best available techniques to prevent and minimise emissions, and that the plant would not give rise to significant pollution of the environment or harm to human health.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 06/06/2022 14:51:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1465562

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Plastics: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answers of 21 April 2022 to Questions 153692, 153693 and 153694 on Plastics: taxation, how much and what proportion of the £30 billion committed by the Government to the green industrial revolution has been allocated to tackling (a) single-use plastics, (b) waste and (c) litter.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	7889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>As set out at Budget 2018 when the tax was first announced, future revenues raised from the Plastic Packaging Tax and the Packaging Producer Responsibility reforms will enable investment to address single-use plastics, waste and litter. Some businesses have already started reformulating their packaging to include recycled content in response to the tax, with many signing up to the UK Plastics Pact which has a target of 30% average recycled content by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Since March 2021, the Government has committed a total of £30 billion for the green industrial revolution in the UK, including more than £300m capital funding at the 2021 Spending Review to implement free, separate food waste collections in every English local authority from 2025.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 7890 7891 question first answered 06/06/2022 10:44:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1465563

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Plastics: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answers of 21 April 2022 to Questions 153692, 153693 and 153694 on Plastics: taxation, how much and what proportion of the £30 billion committed by the Government to the green industrial revolution is (a) funded by and (b) planned to be funded by revenue generated from the plastic packaging tax; and whether funding allocated for tackling (i) single-use plastics, (ii) waste and (iii) litter has changed since the introduction of that tax.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	7890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>As set out at Budget 2018 when the tax was first announced, future revenues raised from the Plastic Packaging Tax and the Packaging Producer Responsibility reforms will enable investment to address single-use plastics, waste and litter. Some businesses have already started reformulating their packaging to include recycled content in response to the tax, with many signing up to the UK Plastics Pact which has a target of 30% average recycled content by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Since March 2021, the Government has committed a total of £30 billion for the green industrial revolution in the UK, including more than £300m capital funding at the 2021 Spending Review to implement free, separate food waste collections in every English local authority from 2025.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 7889 7891 question first answered 06/06/2022 10:44:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1465565

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Plastics: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of allocating a greater proportion of the revenue generated from the plastic packaging tax to recycling and collection infrastructure in advance of the implementation of (a) deposit return schemes and (b) extended producer responsibility reforms in 2025 and beyond.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	7891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>As set out at Budget 2018 when the tax was first announced, future revenues raised from the Plastic Packaging Tax and the Packaging Producer Responsibility reforms will enable investment to address single-use plastics, waste and litter. Some businesses have already started reformulating their packaging to include recycled content in response to the tax, with many signing up to the UK Plastics Pact which has a target of 30% average recycled content by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Since March 2021, the Government has committed a total of £30 billion for the green industrial revolution in the UK, including more than £300m capital funding at the 2021 Spending Review to implement free, separate food waste collections in every English local authority from 2025.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 7889 7890 question first answered 06/06/2022 10:44:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1463004

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has analysis to show by how much particulate matter emissions need to be reduced in order to reduce premature deaths caused by air pollution in the UK by half.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	2344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>No specific analysis has been undertaken. However, the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants has assessed the long-term exposure to man-made air pollution in the United Kingdom, based on studies reporting associations of mortality risk with fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. It was estimated that for a one microgram per cubic metre reduction in nitrogen dioxide, approximately 420,000 to 903,000 life years could be saved in the UK over the next 106 years, associated with an increase in life expectancy at birth of two to five days.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 19/05/2022 08:42:46 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies