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Written Question
Plastics
Friday 24th February 2023

Asked by: Caroline Ansell (Conservative - Eastbourne)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of running a publicity campaign to raise awareness of biomass plastics as an alternative to regular plastics; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

No.

Further research is required to make sure that bio-based plastics lead to a better environmental outcome overall. Our position on this was set out in the response to our call for evidence on the need for standards for bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable plastics in April 2021.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Agriculture in Sussex

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered agriculture in Sussex.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. We are all clearly proud of Sussex, even if it represents only 2% of England’s farmed area. There is ambition and potential, and there are very many …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Agriculture in Sussex

"I thank my hon. Friend and near neighbour for his intervention and correction. I delight in knowing that farming has been taking place in the area for more than 4,000 years. All this must surely point towards a good future, as agriculture is so well established there.

We understand that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Agriculture in Sussex

"I completely agree with my hon. Friend about how important pasture-land is. The Eastbourne constituency is set to lose one of the last pockets of green space between Eastbourne and Willingdon, which is currently pasture-land for sheep grazing for one of our farms, exactly as my hon. Friend described. However, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Agriculture in Sussex

"I thank the Minister for his remarks. As an educator, I concur with him that education is all things. There is a real role for colleges such as Plumpton in our area to really underpin and pump-prime this sector. That applies to every part of the sector, too.

I wonder …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Sewage Discharges

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. I congratulate my constituency next door neighbour and parliamentary colleague my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman). This debate shows that there is a clear need for action, and it has more than done justice …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Support for Local Food Infrastructure

"I wholly support all the very important infrastructure investments that my hon. Friend has detailed, but on water, which is a vital ingredient in the mix, I want to raise my concern about local food partnerships. Because they are not commercially operated, they are suffering in this drought due to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Local food partnerships could play an important role in providing resilience and healthy, cost-free produce to the local community. In this time of drought and water restrictions, however, South East Water has not made an explicit exemption for such partnerships, and that will really curtail their activity. Will the Minister …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"In my tourist town of Eastbourne, the sea is our greatest asset. Meeting with the Environment Agency just a week or two ago, water quality was deemed to be good, yet social media discharges by local Liberal Democrats would have people believe that it is dangerous to swim. Does my …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What steps the Church is taking to provide affordable, sustainable housing on its land. ..."
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