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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Waste Incineration Facilities

"I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. More recycling has to be the solution; it will never be landfill, and certainly not incineration. How does the Minister expect to meet the Government’s climate target of being carbon neutral by 2050 if planning applications for waste incineration continue to go ahead?

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Waste Incineration Facilities

"Absolutely. Residents raised that point on Saturday—especially those living around the proposed site, who will be bothered by the congestion, extra fumes and mess from those heavy goods vehicles. The HGVs are supposed to be strapped and covered, but every day stuff flies off the lorries that go to the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 11 Feb 2020
Waste Incineration Facilities

"I thank the Minister for leaving me some time. This has been an excellent debate—the latest in an ongoing series. I have no doubt that, as the hon. Member for Glenrothes (Peter Grant) said, if it was not us here, it would be a different 10 MPs, but the message …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Agriculture Bill

"As a member of the Children’s Future Food Inquiry, which I co-chaired, my hon. Friend will be aware that we made recommendations to the Government to establish an independent children’s food watchdog to implement policies that could improve families’ access to affordable and healthy food. Does she agree that the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 28 Jan 2020
Industrial and Commercial Waste Incineration

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty), both for securing this important debate and for his excellent speech to set the scene.

In 2017, a planning application for a gasification plant to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Waste Processing Facilities: Local Environment

"I am sorry that I missed the first two minutes of my hon. Friend’s remarks. He will be aware that I initiated an Adjournment debate in the main Chamber on this very issue; the situation sounds exactly the same. It was with regard to the recycling plants at Teal Farm …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Waste Processing Facilities: Local Environment

"I do not want to spoil the flow of my hon. Friend’s speech. On planning, when a company, which could be rogue to say the least—some of these places can be said to be the scrapyards of our modern age—shuts up shop and goes, someone else can move in without …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Waste Processing Facilities: Local Environment

"Following the Adjournment debate that I secured in the House, the then Minister, the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (George Eustice), said that he would go away and look at the question of future further powers for the Environment Agency, as my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North …..."
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Written Question
Food Supply
Wednesday 23rd October 2019

Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on food supplies of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

Answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

We would prefer to leave with a deal and we will work in an energetic and determined way to deliver that better deal.

The UK food and drink supply chain contributes £121 billion to the economy and employs four million people (12% of UK employment). Food and drink manufacturing is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, while food and drink retail is the largest service sector employer.

Consumers have access to a wide range of food products when they shop and this will continue once we leave the EU. However, if key trade routes are temporarily disrupted, there would be reduced availability and choice of certain food products, including some of the fresh produce we import from the EU. If we have to leave with no deal, there will not be an overall shortage of food in the UK.

While we are reliant on imports of certain fresh products at this time of year, our market profiles clearly demonstrate strong UK winter production of many root vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, swedes, turnips, parsnips and leeks.

Written Question
Food Supply
Tuesday 8th October 2019

Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on food supplies in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

Answered by George Eustice

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.