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Scheduled Event - Friday 21st June
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Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24
MP: Sarah Green
Written Question
Rivers: Environment Protection
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)

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

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to introduce statutory protection for chalk streams.

Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We have already brought forward changes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act to help better protect chalk streams by adding chalk streams into the definitions of ‘environmental protection’ and ‘natural environment’ in the Act. This means that chalk streams must be considered when undertaking environmental assessments in the future, thereby recognising the value of these distinctive habitats. Also, chalk streams are now defined as priority sites in the government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan with a target to improve 75% of storm overflows discharging to high priority sites by 2035.

We are working very closely with colleagues from the Environment Agency, the Chair of the Chalk Stream Restoration Group and the Wildlife Trust on the Chalk Stream Recovery Pack. The Recovery Pack will make a number of recommendations for government to tackle to restore and protect our chalk streams.

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Recovered appeal: land to the north of Cambridge North Station, Cambridge (ref: 3315611 - 23 April 2024)
Document: (PDF)

Found: River Cam. 11.11 The E A also indicate that there is wider evidence of abstraction pressure on Chalk

Lords Chamber
Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Is regulation to be tightened to help protect the quality of the water in our chalk streams, lakes and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) At the moment, we have torrents of sewage pouring into our rivers, on to our coastlines and into our chalk - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Apr. 03 2024

Source Page: Recovered appeal: land at Cruxton Farm, Cruxton Lane, Cruxton (ref: 3317593 - 3 April 2024)
Document: Recovered appeal: land at Cruxton Farm, Cruxton Lane, Cruxton DT2 0EB (ref: 3317593 - 3 April 2024) (PDF)

Found: Page 10 characteristics of the LCA includ e a series of broad, undulating valleys with associated chalk

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Environment Agency

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Revitalising the Hamble Brook
Document: Revitalising the Hamble Brook (webpage)

Found: wetland site, encompassing over 2,500 square metres of new wildlife habitat, thanks to the Chilterns Chalk

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Improving river habitats to support wildlife during high and low flows
Document: Improving river habitats to support wildlife during high and low flows: what works in which rivers: report (PDF)

Found: exercise was conducted on 10 new case studies focussed on generating insights for high energy and chalk

Scheduled Event - Friday 22nd March
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Commons - Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24
MP: Sarah Green
Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2 (PDF)

Found: effluent streams.

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project (PDF)

Found: These two streams of evidence are brought together in this final report, conclusions , and recommendations