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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which scientific advisory committees the Environment Agency manages; and how advice from those committees has been used by the Environment Agency in the last 12 months.

The Environment Agency has a Scientific Advisory Group for the Strategic Monitoring Programme. It also convenes workshops of academics to give advice on issues, rather than having multiple standing groups. The Environment Agency also has links with the Defra Science Advisory Committee and other science advice mechanisms across Government.