Asked by: Adrian Ramsay (Green Party - Waveney Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment she has made of the potential relationship between environmental criteria in the Social Value Model and the Government's commitment that 50% of publicly procured food should be local or produced to higher environmental standards.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The government remains committed to its ambition of 50% local or higher environmental product standards.
Asked by: Adrian Ramsay (Green Party - Waveney Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether public bodies will continue to be able to take account of environmental outcomes when evaluating bids for food procurement contracts under the revised Social Value Model.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The government remains committed to its ambition of 50% local or higher environmental product standards.
Asked by: Adrian Ramsay (Green Party - Waveney Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he took to consider climate change tipping points when preparing the update to the National Risk Register in January 2025.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. The National Risk Register focuses on the reasonable worst case ‘acute’ risks, which are discrete events requiring an emergency response and likely to occur over the next two-five years. All risks in the National Risk Register are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity. Part of that process is considering the chronic, longer term risks and trends which could change the likelihood and impact of the risks set out in the Register.
The January 2025 National Risk Register recognises climate change and biodiversity loss as drivers of chronic risk. For example, climate change can lead to an increase in the frequency and severity of weather conditions that cause floods and wildfires, biodiversity loss and global instability. During every update, policy makers are encouraged to consider the potential implications of these chronic risks on their policy areas, including how it might interact with acute risks.
The Government published its first bespoke Chronic Risks Analysis (CRA) in July 2025 to enable the resilience community, businesses and organisations more broadly to consider these long-term challenges in their planning.
Asked by: Adrian Ramsay (Green Party - Waveney Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the total value of trade (a) imports and (b) exports of fish and crustaceans between the UK and the Faroe Islands for financial year (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2022-23.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman or lady Parliamentary Question of 12th March is attached.
Asked by: Adrian Ramsay (Green Party - Waveney Valley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the value of trade (a) imports and (b) exports between the UK and the Faroe Islands for financial year (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2022-23.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman or lady Parliamentary Question of 12th March is attached.