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Written Question
Water Supply
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)

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 impact of trends in the number of (a) data centres and (b) AI infrastructure on demand for water in the next 10 years.

Answered by Robbie Moore - Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Environment Agency will be publishing its updated National Framework for Water Resources in 2025. This will reflect the expectation that regional water resources plans explore opportunities to deliver cross sector mutual benefits, as set out in a joint letter from Government and water regulators to regional water resources groups in January 2023.

This will include the need to work with data centre and AI industries to establish and understand their potential water demands, seeking to identify potential mutually beneficial solutions.

In some parts of England which are designated as water stressed, water companies may not be able to supply the required volume of water. The data centre and AI industry will need to investigate and plan for alternative sources of water, including on site water storage and water recycling.

Written Question
Asthma: Medical Equipment
Thursday 3rd November 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice her Department provides to people with asthma on the safe and environmentally-friendly disposal of used inhalers.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

HM Government is committed to reducing and managing waste safely and carefully. Defra supports Recycle Now, the national recycling campaign for England and Northern Ireland, which advises the public on what items can be recycled and where they can be recycled. The Recycle Now website makes clear that inhalers should be returned to pharmacies to be disposed of safely.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Environment Agency and Water Levels in the Sankey Canal

"I am most grateful to Mr Speaker for granting me this debate on such an important issue to my constituency, and particularly to those who live in my home town of Widnes. I want to raise the perilous state of the Sankey canal, also known as the St Helens canal …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Environment Agency and Water Levels in the Sankey Canal

"Given the scenes filmed today showing that hundreds or possibly thousands of fish have died, will the Minister go back to the Environment Agency and ask exactly what it is doing to advise and help save the fish in the canal?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 May 2022
Agriculture Sector: Recruitment Support

"I confirm that the debate should finish by 5.43 pm. Of course, the hon. Member in charge of the debate should have some time to wind up at the end...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Hedgehogs

"I remind hon. Members that there have been some changes to the normal practice in order to support the new hybrid arrangements. Timings of debates have been amended to allow technical arrangements to be made for the next debate. There will also be suspensions between each debate. I remind Members …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Hedgehogs

"Just to let Members know, I intend for the Opposition spokesperson and the Minister to start winding up at no later than 5.40 pm. Given the great deal of interest and the number of speakers, please keep your contributions to around four and a half minutes, which will ensure that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Hedgehogs

"I remind Members to wear masks while in this room, if they are not speaking, please...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Dec 2020
National Tree Strategy

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) on securing this debate and on his speech which set out some important points. As a Twigg, I am not sure whether I should declare an interest in this debate, but I did think that, as a Twigg, …..."
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Written Question
United Utilities: Japanese Knotweed
Thursday 2nd July 2020

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with United Utilities on the control and eradication of Japanese knotweed on land owned by that company.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

The Secretary of State has not had any recent discussions with United Utilities about Japanese knotweed.