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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility

"It is a delight to take part in this debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) on initiating it. I back everything she said about glass, which affects Felinfoel brewery in my constituency very badly, as well as Parsons Pickles, which produces shellfish and …..."
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Written Question
Shellfish: Wales
Monday 1st February 2021

Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)

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 facilitate the immediate export to the EU of Welsh non-depurated shellfish from class B waters from wild stock.

Answered by Baroness Prentis of Banbury

We notified the industry in October and December 2020 that the EU would not accept non-depurated, live, bivalve molluscs from class B waters harvested from wild stock from 1 January 2021.

Since then, we have heard that the EU Commission additionally has concerns about the trade from registered aquaculture production businesses. We have not however had a formal notification setting these out.

We are rapidly working to identify any scientific or legal basis that might undermine the trade so that it may continue to operate on a secure footing. This work includes discussions with EU Member States and the European Commission.

We understand the importance of this trade for Welsh shellfish businesses and others in the UK.

Live bivalve molluscs such as oysters, mussels, clams, cockles and scallops can continue to be exported to the EU if they are harvested from class A waters, have been cleaned or have cleared end product testing in GB.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2016
Cockling: Dee Estuary

"Does my hon. Friend agree that all accounts from NRW and the Environment Agency on the Dee estuary and other cockle beds should be fully published and readily available? People should not have to make freedom of information requests so that we can all see exactly what is going on...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I fully understand the 2009 cut-off date for Flood Re, of which developers and local authorities should have been fully aware, but what more can the Minister do to make it legally binding to inform purchasers that they will not be eligible for Flood Re? What about properties that are …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Minister will be well aware that the Labour Welsh Government have introduced regulation to improve conditions in dog breeding. Does he have any plans to introduce similar legislation in England to tackle some of the horrific conditions that back-street dog breeding gives rise to?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jun 2015
Organophosphate Sheep Dip

"The shadow Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham), has indeed called for an investigation into exactly what was known in the ’80s and ’90s before the use of such substances was finally discontinued, and into whether there was any form of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jun 2015
Organophosphate Sheep Dip

"Will the Minister explain what account has been taken of what records are and are not available? If many of the records are not available, the sample may well have been skewed...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 05 Nov 2014
Dairy Industry

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is the very reason why we need the voluntary code to be strengthened—so that farmers cannot be shocked by sudden price drops by big purchasers? Will he ask the Minister to look again at the voluntary code and at making something much stronger?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the openness of a free trade agreement, but can the Minister tell us what steps he is taking to ensure that there are no mechanisms included in it—such as an investor-state dispute settlement—that would enable powerful vested interests to bully future Governments into dropping legislation that would improve …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. The Burry inlet in my constituency is once again experiencing mass cockle mortality. Last Thursday, in response to action taken by some of the cockle pickers in my constituency several years ago, the European Commission issued a reasoned opinion in which it named nine agglomerations that are failing to …..."
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