To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Written Question
Electronic Cigarettes: Packaging
Thursday 9th March 2023

Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the forthcoming extended producer responsibility for packaging scheme on the amount of disposable vape packaging (a) used, (b) recycled and (c) going to landfill in each of the next five years.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

We do not plan to make a specific assessment of the potential impact of the forthcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging scheme on disposable vape packaging. However, we expect EPR to both reduce household packaging waste and improve its recyclability, thereby reducing the amount of packaging that is sent to landfill.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"I am grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing me to intervene. I want to take him back to security. There are many teeth in the dangerous maw that is climate change, and security does not get enough attention. Between DFID, the Ministry of Defence and perhaps the Foreign …..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: Environment and Climate Change
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Environment and Climate Change

"Does my hon. Friend agree that for all the glossy words of the Environment Secretary, what is needed is for Departments to work together? As she knows, Dalgety Bay beach in Scotland is still covered in radioactive particles, and the Ministry of Defence has dithered and delayed on this. Does …..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: Environment and Climate Change
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union

"The Secretary of State speaks as though there is some distance between him and the tragedy that he has just outlined, but is it not the case that he is a senior author of that tragedy? Does he feel no sense of shame or responsibility? Should he not apologise for …..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"In his denunciation of Stalinism from exile in Paris in 1951, the Polish poet and diplomat, Czeslaw Milosz, wrote in his seminal book “The Captive Mind”:

“Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.”

He was, of course, admonishing his fellow citizens who had sought …..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: European Union (Withdrawal) Act
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"I will confine my remarks to the issue at hand.

The current constitutional arrangement forbids Scotland from interacting on an equal footing either with our neighbours in the rest of the UK or, indeed, with the other nations of the European Union. We in Scotland can see it every day, …..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: European Union (Withdrawal) Act
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill

"During the recess a constituent of mine was in a care home and saw a poster that said:

“Rationing means a fair share for all of us”.

Does my hon. Friend think that was nostalgia or forward planning?..."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: Agriculture Bill
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2016
EU Referendum: Energy and Environment

"My hon. Friend is illustrating the sorry place the Government have now taken the country. It is no longer Britannia rules the waves: it is Britannia waives the rules...."
Stewart Malcolm McDonald - View Speech

View all Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) contributions to the debate on: EU Referendum: Energy and Environment
Written Question
Agriculture: Subsidies
Friday 8th July 2016

Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to make available funding at the same level as currently received from the Common Agricultural Policy in the event of the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by George Eustice

The Prime Minister made clear that there needs to be a system of agricultural support in the event of the UK leaving the EU.

The precise nature of any future domestic agricultural policy will be a matter for a new Prime Minister and their Cabinet.

Written Question
Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
Wednesday 4th May 2016

Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on assessing the effect on air quality and levels of emissions from motor vehicles of data published by Emissions Analytics and the Department for Transport on the level of emissions from new diesel cars.

Answered by Rory Stewart

Tackling air quality is a priority for this Government and we are committed to meeting air quality limits for nitrogen dioxide in the shortest possible time. Defra and the Department for Transport work closely together at all levels to embed air quality considerations in the development of transport policy and delivery, including in relation to vehicle emissions. The inter-Ministerial group on Clean Growth meets as and when required and its members include Ministers and officials from the relevant departments, including Defra and the Department for Transport.

The Government’s comprehensive National Air Quality Plan (www.gov.uk/government/publications/air-quality-in-the-uk-plan-to-reduce-nitrogen-dioxide-emissions), published in December last year, is based on the best available evidence and uses the latest COPERT (Computer Programme to Calculate Emissions from Road Transport) (4v11) factors to calculate emissions from diesel cars.

In May, the Government will present the results of its vehicle testing programme (www.gov.uk/government/publications/vehicle-emissions-testing-programme-conclusions) to European Research for Mobile Emission Sources (ERMES), the body responsible for collating vehicle emission data, to inform its updated emissions factors later this year. This will ensure that EU-wide emission factors more accurately reflect the difference between real world driving and laboratory test conditions.