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Written Question
Flood Control
Thursday 1st February 2024

Asked by: Eddie Hughes (Conservative - Walsall North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is providing to improve flood defences.

Answered by Steve Barclay

The Government is investing a record £5.2 billion over six years in flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England.

In addition, at the last spending review the Government increased funding for maintaining existing flood defences by £22 million per year, bringing the total to over £200 million per year.

Our investment in flood defences has seen over 600,000 properties better protected from flooding since 2010, including over 71,000 since 2021.

Written Question
Pets: Theft
Friday 7th July 2023

Asked by: Eddie Hughes (Conservative - Walsall North)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce pet theft.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

While stealing a pet is already a criminal offence under the Theft Act 1968, we understand the devastating impact that the theft of a pet can have. That is why we intend to legislate to make pet abduction a specific offence, building on the recent work of the Pet Theft Taskforce to clamp down on this heartless crime.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Mar 2020
Flooding

"Or grandfather figure...."
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Written Question
Animal Welfare
Thursday 25th July 2019

Asked by: Eddie Hughes (Conservative - Walsall North)

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

What steps he is taking to prevent animal cruelty.

Answered by David Rutley

This Government is leading the way in promoting animal welfare by bringing forward legislation that will increase the maximum custodial penalty for animal cruelty in England from 6 months’ to 5 years’ imprisonment. We have also made it a requirement for all slaughterhouses to have CCTV; updated and improved the laws regulating dog breeding and pet sales; and banned the third party sale of puppies and kittens.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"12. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I was just thinking the same thing, but I did not want to break protocol by trying.What assessment has the Department made of air quality on the M6 from junction 9 to 10A, where it cuts through my constituency, and what work can be done …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"Thank you for calling me so early in this debate, Mr Speaker. One of the great things about being called at this late stage is that I get the opportunity to listen to other people articulate the case far better than I could. My comments might be slightly briefer as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"2. What steps he is taking to increase tree planting. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Minister welcome the work of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy programme, which is providing saplings to MPs across the country to plant in their constituencies?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Middle Level Bill

"I am perplexed by the term “a relevant interest”. Will my hon. Friend elaborate on that, so that I can understand what a relevant interest might be?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Scallop Fishing: Bay of Seine

"Does the Minister believe that one way to solve this impasse might be for the French to lift restrictions on their own smaller boats fishing in this region?..."
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