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1628883

registered interest
date	18/05/2023
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	Pets: Prizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park in the House of Lords on 20 June 2022, Official Report, column HL3, if she will publish the findings of work commissioned by her Department on the issue of pets being handed out as prizes in England.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	185773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>In England and Wales, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 prohibits the sale of an animal, or the transfer of an animal as a prize, to anyone under the age of 16 years old. It also ensures that any person winning an animal as a prize is obliged to provide for its welfare. Our assessment is that these restrictions continue to be balanced and proportionate. Defra has not commissioned any additional external research into pets as prizes, but has commissioned other external research into the keeping of primates as pets, which is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/05/2023 16:49:35 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1624003

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
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	Pets: Prizes
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 legislation applies to the distribution of pets as prizes in England; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of that legislation.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	182800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2023 answer text <p>In England and Wales, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 prohibits the sale of an animal or the transfer of an animal as a prize to anyone under the age of 16 years old and ensures that any person winning an animal as a prize is obliged to provide for its welfare. We consider these restrictions to be balanced and proportionate.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/05/2023 11:29:26 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1601929

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
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	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 steps her Department is taking to help tackle waste crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling waste crime and we are preparing significant reforms to continue to increase the pressure on illegal waste operators. We recently published our Government response to reform of the waste exemptions regime with the intention of closing loopholes and preventing exemptions from being misused to permit risky and illegal activity. Our planned 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 harder still for rogue operators to escape detection. These will come in addition to measures in the Environment Act 2021 which gives agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crime as well as providing the Environment Agency with the ability to recover costs of investigation, intervention and enforcement at illegal or non-compliant waste sites.</p><p>The Government also launched the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) in 2020. It brings together the Environment Agency, HM Revenue &amp; Customs, the National Crime Agency, the police, waste regulators from across the UK and other operational partners to share intelligence and tasking to disrupt and prevent serious organised waste crime. In the three years since the JUWC launched it has worked with 102 partner organisations and engaged in 175 multi-agency days of action, which have resulted in 51 associated arrests by other agencies.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 13/03/2023 16:21:47 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1589142

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Waste Disposal: Monitoring
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 estimate she has made of when a mandatory digital waste tracking system will be operational in England.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	152201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>We are working towards an operational digital waste tracking service from 2024 dependent on the development of the IT and the transition needs of businesses. We will be issuing a government response to our consultation on the implementation of mandatory digital waste tracking in the Spring.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/03/2023 11:16:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1589143

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Waste Disposal: Monitoring
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 recent discussions she has had with the (a) Scottish Government, (b) Welsh Government and (c) Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland on the development of a central digital waste tracking service.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	152202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>The service we are developing will be UK wide and the project is a great example of joint working, with representatives from the devolved governments engaged in the development and decision making on a regular basis.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/03/2023 11:12:01 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470698

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	Environment Agency: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the number of prosecutions undertaken by the Environment Agency has declined every year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Taking cases forward to prosecution is only one part of the Environment Agency's (EA) overall enforcement activity. Other interventions such as Notices requiring action and civil sanctions are quicker and can be effective in securing good outcomes for the environment in different ways.</p><p>The Regulatory Enforcement &amp; Sanctions (RES) Act 2008 made civil sanctions available to the EA to use from 2011. The number of enforcement undertakings accepted by the EA under the RES Act has nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This has included, for example, the compensation of £975,000 made by Wessex Water following sewage pollution at Swanage Harbour in November 2018.</p><p>The EA focuses prosecutions on the most serious and harmful pollution cases, allowing it to focus resources where the impact is greatest. We still take the most serious cases to court. The size of fines for environmental offences are at the highest they have ever been, and custodial sentences are now being imposed regularly for environmental offences.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/06/2022 16:41:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1388283

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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	Birds: Gun Sports
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 ban woodcock shooting.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The reasons for the declines in woodcock populations are likely to include disturbance and habitat loss because of land drainage and changes in woodland management. The Government is not currently persuaded that hunting has a significant detrimental impact on the woodcock, and there are no current plans for a ban. We continue to keep evidence regarding the impacts on species under review to inform policy decisions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 11/01/2022 13:33:59 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1344302

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
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: Boats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, from which country and location in that country each boat in the service of Environment Agency was procured from.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	28097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Environment Agency owns five vessels which were built in Pembroke, South Wales.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/07/2021 14:28:51 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1329960

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
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	Niramax: Landfill Tax
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 the Environment Agency concluded its investigation into Niramax on the potential systematic abuse of the landfill tax system by that company prior to the inauguration of the Joint Unit for Waste Crime; and whether the Environment Agency passed over its investigation of that company to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	11490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The investigation into Niramax and abuse of the landfill tax system was conducted by HM Revenue &amp; Customs. The Environment Agency and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime only provided support to their investigation.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 15/06/2021 16:30:29 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1329635

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Serious and organised waste crime: 2018 review published by his Department on 14 November 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendation on the mandatory electronic tracking of waste.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	10182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government addressed the recommendations set out in the review into serious and organised waste crime through the Resources and Waste Strategy. This committed to mandating the electronic tracking of waste, subject to consultation. The Environment Bill includes powers to introduce mandatory waste tracking and a consultation is planned for later this year.</p><p> </p><p>In parallel we asked five organisations to explore and develop ideas for waste tracking using the Government’s GovTech Catalyst Challenge Fund. The feasibility projects included research into tracking waste through electronic chips and sensors, the use of blockchain, and open data standards, as well as new data analytics and the use of artificial intelligence, to help users decide what to do with the waste they produce. We also conducted further user research to improve our understanding of the reporting requirements of businesses, local authorities, regulators and Government. This information has helped inform the development of the consultation and define the functionality of a future digital service.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 14/06/2021 16:35:35 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones