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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the UNEP-WCMC Webinar for the SAICM Strategic Approach Beyond 2020 Grant.

The UNEP-WCMC webinar informed stakeholders of different models of indicator frameworks to be considered under negotiations of the Beyond 2020 Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management. The discussions influenced a UK paper on an indicator framework that was presented as part of the intersessional process in September 2022. This work has been built upon by the IOMC (Inter-Organisation Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals) and will be discussed at concluding negotiations at the International Chemicals Management Conference (ICCM 5) in Bonn (22-23 September 2023) for possible inclusion in a new United Nations framework instrument for chemicals and waste.