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Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Regulation
Wednesday 18th September 2024

Asked by: Steve Race (Labour - Exeter)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure regulators sponsored by his Department have sufficient resources for enforcement work.

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

The department recognises the vital role that regulators play in the context of enforcement. The enforcement powers of bodies such as Ofwat and the Environment Agency are key to ensuring companies meet their obligations across the water and waste sectors in England and Wales. The Water (Special Measures) Bill, which was introduced into Parliament on 4 September, will strengthen the power of the water industry regulators and expand the cost recovery powers available to the regulators, enabling them to recover their costs for enforcement action from water companies.

Officials work closely with Defra’s public bodies throughout each spending review period, to agree enforcement plans and the required resources.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Redundancy Pay
Wednesday 18th September 2024

Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to his Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment; and how much each Minister received.

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

The details of any ministerial severance payments can be found in our Annual Report & Accounts.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Equality
Wednesday 18th September 2024

Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Reform UK - Great Yarmouth)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many positions in his Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.

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

Defra does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.

Information on spending and staffing can be found in the department's annual report and accounts.


Written Question
Shellfish: Animal Experiments
Tuesday 17th September 2024

Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of the Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023; and what recent estimate she has made of when the Animals in Science Committee will report on options for the future regulation of the use of decapod crustaceans in research.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

Following earlier research and reports on this issue, the next step is for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to decide whether to regulate Decapods under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Any decision of publication of earlier research or the commissioning of further advice will follow in due course.


Written Question
Glass: Recycling
Tuesday 17th September 2024

Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to manage the potential impact of implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on glass manufacturers.

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

As part of the Government’s commitment to implement Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) and the benefits it will deliver, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is working alongside the Department for Business and Trade to discuss the impact of Extended Producer Responsibility on specific packaging sectors, including glass. We will continue to engage with industry on this matter.


Written Question
Food: Labelling
Tuesday 17th September 2024

Asked by: Baroness Gale (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend (1) to respond to the consultation by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on fairer food labelling that closed on 7 May, and (2) to bring forward the proposals to improve transparency in method-of-production welfare labelling for pork, chicken and eggs.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Ministers are carefully considering all responses provided to a public consultation on fairer food labelling before deciding on next steps.


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sep. 16 2024

Source Page: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease
Document: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease (webpage)

Found: From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency Published


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Animal and Plant Health Agency

Sep. 16 2024

Source Page: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease
Document: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease (webpage)

Found: From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency Published


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sep. 16 2024

Source Page: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease
Document: (PDF)

Found: EXD568(BT)E Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs The Bluetongue Regulations S.I. 2008


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Animal and Plant Health Agency

Sep. 16 2024

Source Page: Bluetongue: general licence for vaccination against the disease
Document: (PDF)

Found: EXD568(BT)E Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs The Bluetongue Regulations S.I. 2008