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Written Question
Waste Disposal: Scotland
Sunday 7th September 2025

Asked by: Julie Minns (Labour - Carlisle)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent Scottish biodegradable municipal waste from being shipped to (a) English border constituencies and (b) other English constituencies, in the context of the Scottish Government's forthcoming ban on disposing of such waste in Scottish landfill sites.

Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the Rt. Hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills, Wendy Morton, on 11 July 2025, PQ UIN 65784.


Written Question
Farming Recovery Fund: Carlisle
Tuesday 11th March 2025

Asked by: Julie Minns (Labour - Carlisle)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which properties received Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

The Rural Payments Agency can confirm that no payments were made to properties under the Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.