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Written Question

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Press

Friday 12th April 2024

Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The following is a combined list of subscriptions that the Defra Library and Communications have paid for over the last three financial years. Some are in print and some are online. Not everything on the list was purchased in all three years – subscriptions change on demand and to reflect usage. Information on any subscriptions from other team budgets is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.

Defra Library purchases magazines and journals for Defra, Animal and Plant Health Agency and Natural England staff to support them in their role. The Communications team purchases newspapers for monitoring the media coverage of issues in Defra’s remit.

Angling Times magazine	Environmental Finance	Lyell Collection
Animal Health Research Reviews	Estates Gazette	Materials Recycling World
Argus Fertilizer Europe	Ethical Consumer	Microbiology Society
Avian Pathology	Executive Support magazine	New Zealand Veterinary
BioOne	Farmers Guardian	Planning Resource
Bird Study Pack	Farmers Weekly	Privacy and Data Protection
Bloomberg	Financial Times	Professional Update
British Archaeology magazine	Fishing News Weekly	Responsible Investor
British Poultry Science	Freedom of Information Journal	Royal Forestry Society
British Wildlife Magazine	Fresh Produce	Sunday Times
Conservation Land Management	Geoheritage	Telegraph
Daily Express	Goat Veterinary Journal	The Economist
Daily Mail	Guardian	The Grocer Magazine
Daily Mirror	Habitats Regulations Assessment	The Sun
Daily Telegraph	Harvard Business Review	The Times
Dairy Industry Newsletter	Horticulture Week	UK Livestock magazine
Dods People and Monitoring	I	Veterinary Pathology
Econlit	ICES Journal of Marine Science	Washington Trade Daily
Elsevier Freedom Collection	iNews	Water Report
Ends Europe	Inside Housing	Wiley STM Collection
Ends Report	Insurance Post	Yorkshire Post
Ends Waste & Bioenergy	Nature.com
Environment Complete	Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)

Apr. 11 2024

Source Page: Northern Ireland Milk Quality Statistics, January 2024
Document: Northern Ireland Milk Quality Statistics, January 2024 (webpage)

Found: Statistics, January 2024 DAERA collates milk quality statistics on behalf of the Northern Ireland dairy

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Select Committee

Inquiry into Veterinary Medicines and The Windsor Framework: Roundtable meeting with Northern Ireland based stakeholders, 1 February 2024, Belfast - Note of discussion

Engagement document Apr. 09 2024

Committee: Windsor Framework Sub-Committee

Found: Branch President, British Veterinary Association (BVA) in Northern Ireland • Ian Stevenson, CEO, Dairy

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Written Question

Forests and Land: Environment Protection

Monday 8th April 2024

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

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 the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on forests and land use. what steps he has taken to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

At COP26 in Glasgow, over 140 world leaders committed to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. This commitment was reiterated at COP28, marked by the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake of the world’s efforts to address climate change under the Paris Agreement. The UK Government committed to tackling illegal deforestation in UK supply chains through the Environment Act in 2021 and announced further details of the secondary legislation at COP28 in December 2023.

This law will make it illegal for organisations with a global annual turnover of more than £50m to use key forest risk commodities produced on land illegally occupied or used. Initial secondary legislation will focus on four commodities identified as key drivers of deforestation: cattle products (excluding dairy), cocoa, palm oil and soy. Organisations in scope will also be required to undertake a due diligence exercise on their supply chains and to report on this exercise annually. Organisations using 500 tonnes or less of each regulated commodity in the reporting period will be able to submit an exemption. Businesses in scope that do not comply with these requirements may be subject to fines and other civil sanctions.

The secondary legislation, which is part of a wider package of measures, will be laid in the near future.

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 04 2024

Source Page: International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use Guidelines
Document: Q3D(R2) – Guideline for Elemental Impurities (PDF)

Found: It is widely present in vegetables, dairy products and meats.

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