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Written Question
Horticulture: Peat
Wednesday 20th December 2023

Asked by: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans (1) to bring forward their proposed ban on the sale of all peat-containing products, or (2) revise the list of items exempted from the ban until 2030.

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

In August 2022 we announced that we would ban the sale of peat for use in amateur gardening; we remain committed to this and plan to legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows. It remains our policy that we intend to legislate to restrict, and ultimately ban, the sale of peat and peat containing products. Our proposals, announced in March this year, include technical exemptions up to 2030. We are continuing to hold discussions with the horticulture sector on possible technical exemptions for the continued use of peat in the professional sector up to 2030, and for conservation purposes thereafter.

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Primary Care Directorate

Dec. 20 2023

Source Page: Community link workers and Adult Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing fund: FOI release
Document: FOI 202200396132 Annex A (PDF)

Found: Community link workers and Adult Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing fund: FOI release

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Dec. 20 2023

Source Page: Proposals for a ban on peat-based compost: EIR release
Document: Proposals for a ban on peat-based compost: EIR release (webpage)

Found: consult on a ban on the sale of peat related gardening products as part of our wider commitment to phase

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Dec. 20 2023

Source Page: Proposals for a ban on peat-based compost: EIR release
Document: EIR - 202200279516 - Information release (PDF)

Found: of peat related gardening products, the first step in our commitment to phase out the use of peat in

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Dec. 14 2023

Source Page: Green land investment in rural Scotland: social and economic impacts
Document: The Social and Economic Impacts of Green Land Investment in Rural Scotland (PDF)

Found: Green land investment in rural Scotland: social and economic impacts

Select Committee
Stafford Borough Council Community climate change panel.
 FSC0007 - Fairness in the food supply chain

Written Evidence Dec. 12 2023

Inquiry: Fairness in the food supply chain
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: neither live-stock farming or horticulture are fulfilling the potential of agriculture to capture

Select Committee
Horticultural Trades Association
 CGW0005 - Cross-government working

Written Evidence Dec. 12 2023

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Green Spaces/Environmental Horticulture in all aspects of policy-making and regulatory impact

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

Dec. 11 2023

Source Page: Called-in decisions: Sites at Homebase and Tesco Osterley, Syon Lane, Isleworth, Hounslow, London (refs: 3287726 and 3287727 - 11 December 2023)
Document: Called-in decisions: Sites at Homebase and Tesco Osterley, Syon Lane, Isleworth, Hounslow, London (refs: 3287726 and 3287727 - 11 December 2023) (PDF)

Found: Called-in decisions: Sites at Homebase and Tesco Osterley, Syon Lane, Isleworth, Hounslow, London (refs

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Dec. 05 2023

Source Page: Supply chain decarbonisation with a gender lens: practical guidance for multinational companies planning Scope 3 emissions reductions
Document: upply chain decarbonisation with a gender lens: practical guidance for multinational companies planning Scope 3 emissions reductions (PDF)

Found: choices, product and services design, and business model innovation

Select Committee
First Report - Soil health

Report Dec. 05 2023

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: , section 28 73 This will be achieved primarily via ELM schemes but also through bans on its use in gardening