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1671955

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date	21/11/2023
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	Environmental Land Management Schemes
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 his Department is taking to (a) help optimise the (i) combination, (ii) scale and (iii) location of the take up of Environmental Land Management (ELM) options for nature recovery targets and (b) ensure that any potential simplification of the ELM scheme design does not affect the UK's ability to meet nature recovery targets.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	2856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>We set out how we will deliver outcomes for food, farming and the environment through our Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes in an update in January. This can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fenvironmental-land-management-update-how-government-will-pay-for-land-based-environment-and-climate-goods-and-services%2Fenvironmental-land-management-elm-update-how-government-will-pay-for-land-based-environment-and-climate-goods-and-services&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C201c47f9efa24747abb008dbeba4c92b%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638362865203198588%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=O29IdmFHlWuXGzFt0XYQrmyrUT9G2729wAf3bdoPLhg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Environmental Land Management (ELM) update: how government will pay for land-based environment and climate goods and services</a>. This includes our plans to expand and refine the schemes to contribute more to our environmental targets, including on nature recovery, and to target funding towards actions in places where they can have the biggest impacts, in ways that are joined up across larger areas, and that are designed to deliver the required results.</p><p> </p><p>Since then we have launched the 2023 Sustainable Farming Incentive and further rounds of Countryside Stewardship and Landscape Recovery. We will publish more details on the 2024 offer in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 01/12/2023 16:36:33 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1315890

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the feasibility of developing (a) 2GW of floating wind by 2030 and (b) 16GW of floating wind by 2040.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	2856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>One of the key priorities of this Government is putting in place policies to support a significant growth of offshore wind to 2030 and beyond. Within this, we are committed to supporting the development of floating offshore wind, as reflected by our ambitious target of 1GW of floating wind by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has regular discussions with members of the floating offshore wind sector. Floating offshore wind projects will be eligible to bid in the next Contract for Difference allocation round, which will open in December 2021. This approach will provide the foundation for investment in a sustainable, competitive UK based supply chain from which we will learn to help plan our future approach and the feasible scale of ramp up of deployment.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 2857 question first answered 24/05/2021 13:18:53 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1151074

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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	Sulphur Dioxide
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 level of sulphur dioxide was in the UK in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Defra’s national Automatic Urban and Rural Monitoring Network (AURN) currently has 28 sites monitoring sulphur dioxide every 15 minutes in the UK. Over the last 10 years (2008 – 2018) concentrations of sulphur dioxide monitored have remained consistently low. The UK has been compliant with legally binding limit values for sulphur dioxide for the entire period.</p><p> </p><p>The low concentration levels are in part linked to large reductions in UK sulphur dioxide emissions (a 67% reduction between 2008 and 2017).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/10/2019 17:49:33 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

748143

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's press release of 27 January 2017, PM: mental health training for teachers will make a real difference to children's lives, how much it will cost to train each teacher that undergoes the mental health training programme provided by Mental Health First Aid England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	2856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to offering Mental Health First Aid training to a teacher in every secondary school by 2019. The training programme has been developed to be delivered as a one day training session.</p><p>The Department is working closely with Mental Health First Aid England to monitor the implementation of the training. The Department does not hold the rest of the information in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 2854 2857 question first answered 10/07/2017 16:41:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger