Written Question
Wednesday 9th February 2022
Asked by:
Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount of water lost through leaks in England.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
Defra has challenged water companies to improve their performance on leakage. In the current price review Ofwat has set a target for an average 16% leakage reduction by 2025.
Longer term, the water industry has also committed to reduce leakage by 50% from 2017/18 levels sector-wide by 2050, a target which has been endorsed by Government and is set out in our Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"I want to put some human context into this debate. I saw on social media this weekend a comment by a single parent. She said:
“It’s difficult to imagine without experiencing it is how tiring being skint is. How you’re so utterly consumed by financial hardship that it affects every …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"That comes from a single parent and it sets the tone for this debate. The country is badly fractured and, sadly, broken. Kids cannot eat and pensioners cannot eat, yet sales of luxury yachts have gone through the roof...."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"If we have a look at the grotesque inequality in this country, and at those who have and those who have not, we see that there has been a 500% increase in the number of billionaires since covid began, a £2 trillion increase in FTSE stock market value and £3 …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"And then we look at the other end of the political spectrum, where we see 14 million people in this country, the sixth richest economy on this planet, living in poverty...."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"UK wages are at the lowest they have been and they are a 15-year standstill. Wages are gone and energy bills are going through the roof—I will come on to that. Poverty is a political choice. Hunger is a political choice. I am sick and tired of debates in this …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"That does not matter to people who are suffering greatly in our communities. If they are sitting at the table with nothing to eat in the morning or at teatime at night, they are not aware of whether they are in abject poverty, absolute poverty, relative poverty or overall poverty. …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"Mr Deputy Speaker, that has taken out a minute and a half of my time, but thank you very much for allowing me to continue. I am far from a coward, by the way.
The debate in here is quite often about relative poverty or absolute poverty, but that does …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Cost of Living and Food Insecurity
"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I would like your advice about the intimidation that I seem to be getting from the Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson). The last couple of times I have been in the Chamber, there have been some absolutely terrible remarks. I am sure …..."Ian Lavery - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 18th January 2022
Asked by:
Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many greyhounds were imported (a) commercially and (b) non-respectively from the Republic of Ireland to the UK in each year between 2015 and 2021.
Answered by Jo Churchill
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is unable to provide the data requested for greyhounds as the breed of dog is not recorded on the system for commercial and non-commercial import of dogs from the Republic of Ireland to the UK.