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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What steps she is taking to tackle plastic pollution. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2019
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"I thank you, Mr Speaker, for your tremendous support for Back Benchers throughout this House during your time in the Chair. I also thank Becki Woolrich, who founded Stafford Litter Heroes, for all that she and her colleagues have done. By this weekend, they will have collected more than 2 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Oct 2019
The Climate Emergency

"At the beginning of last year, I was moved when I visited Calais and listened to the stories of some of the refugees there who had been forced to move from their homelands against their will—some because of violence and conflict, some because of persecution, some because of a lack …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Oct 2019
The Climate Emergency

"The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and Ethiopia has pledged to plant 4 billion trees in the next year...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Jul 2019
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"Does the Secretary of State agree with me that fashion provides very important livelihoods for people in low-income countries around the world? As we, rightly, address the question of sustainability, we must never throw away their livelihoods, which are so important. In fact, we must seek to ensure that those …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 May 2019
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"Staffordshire moorlands has some magnificent heathland, but it has been affected by severe fires in the last year. Those are sometimes caused by disposable barbecues. Has the Minister looked at ways of ensuring the more responsible purchase and use of such barbecues?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 May 2019
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"What discussions has my right hon. Friend been having with his Cabinet colleagues about cutting vehicle emissions—for instance, by improving the infrastructure of charging points in cities for electric and hybrid vehicles, which is absolutely critical to this aim?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 May 2019
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"Will my right hon. Friend pass on to Christians in Sri Lanka just how much we admire their peaceful and dignified response, and indeed that of all Sri Lankans, to this atrocity?..."
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Written Question
Litter
Thursday 31st January 2019

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has allocated directly to (a) Keep Britain Tidy and (b) other anti-litter initiatives in each year since 2010.

Answered by Baroness Coffey

The following table sets out the grant funding allocated to Keep Britain Tidy from 2010 to 2015:

Year

Grant

2010-11

£4.75 million

2011-12

£4 million

2012-13

£3.5 million

2013-14

£2.25 million

2014-15

£0.5 million

After 2015, no funding was specifically allocated to Keep Britain Tidy, but it has successfully bid for a number of litter-related contracts:

Year

Project

Contract value

2015-16

Analysis of Local Environment Quality Survey for England data 2014-15

£29,986

2017-18

Survey of roadside litter on trunk roads other than motorways

£79,000

2018-19

Economic valuation of the non-market benefits of dealing with specific types of litter that a Deposit Return Scheme in England would help to overcome

£41,525

Keep Britain Tidy was also awarded the following grant funding towards the delivery of national clear-up days in 2015-18:

Year

Grant

2015 (Community Clear-Up Day)

£9,500

2016 (Clean for the Queen)

£9,500

2017 (Great British Spring Clean)

£10,000

In 2017, we also launched the £450,000 Litter Innovation Fund (jointly funded by Defra and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government), to pilot, implement and evaluate small scale local research projects that could be replicated more widely. The Fund was open to applications from councils, community groups, campaign groups and small/medium-sized enterprises. A total of £122,449 was awarded to 13 projects in the first round, including 4 awards to Keep Britain Tidy, totaling £39,717. Full details of all the first-round awards are available online at:

http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/litter-innovation-fund

Defra has spent the following amounts on the development of the national anti-littering campaign (none of this funding was paid to Keep Britain Tidy).

Year

Purpose

Amount

2016-2017

Initial scoping and research

£15,868

2017-2018

Development of campaign and partnership strategy and stakeholder research, as well as testing and development of a campaign identify

£124,412

2018-2019

Campaign branding, creative assets and launch.

£50,000

Since 2015, Defra has also provided £5,000 per year to the Marine Conservation Society to carry out beach cleaning at priority beaches.

No funding has been allocated to other anti-litter initiatives.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last Saturday I had the honour of attending the plough service to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Staffordshire NFU, an extremely good organisation representing farmers throughout my constituency. At that service, a number of members came up to me and expressed how concerned they are about any prospect of no …..."
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