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1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) flood risk downstream; I am thinking of the various measures to slow the flow in upland areas to create wetlands - Speech Link
Apr. 15 2024
Source Page: Penguins Public NoticeFound: Highly sensitive, low energy coastal habitats such as seagrass meadows, wetlands and saltmarsh are also
Found: argue s that rewilding could reduce wildfire risk by creating mosaics of different habitats , such as wetlands
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: Gamebirds: decision to issue the GL45 gamebird general licence for 2024 to 2025Found: Wildfowl could then facilitate transmission via environmental contamination of wetlands and reedbeds
Apr. 09 2024
Source Page: Water Restoration Fund Application formFound: application form to apply for a grant to restore and improve rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, wetlands
Apr. 09 2024
Source Page: Crackdown on water firms sees millions invested into local actionFound: Water Restoration Fund, using the money from water company fines and penalties to improve water and wetlands
Apr. 08 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: Lake End Road, Dorney, Slough (ref: 3313350 - 8 April 2024)Found: until the end of April) ; i) Above ground SuDS components, including, but not limited to, ponds, wetlands
Apr. 04 2024
Source Page: Category A project under consideration: Electrification Project, Uíge Province, AngolaFound: Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention,
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: M8 westbound carriageway defects and maintenance: EIR releaseFound: Asset Attributes Asset Shape Area Asset Service Level Wetlands should generally be self -supporting
Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the SHOT-SWITCH research project, published in Conservation Evidence, about the voluntary transition from hunting with lead to non-lead ammunition in Great Britain; and what plans they have to ban the use of lead shot in hunting in England.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The use of lead shot in England and Wales is already prohibited in specific circumstances by existing legislation – including on all foreshores, and in or over specified sites of special scientific interest, predominantly wetlands.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is currently preparing recommendations on further action to restrict the use of lead in ammunition. This work has included looking at information submitted to them with regard to possible options to control the use of lead ammunition. The previous SHOT-SWITCH study has been considered and is referenced in the background document of evidence (attached to this answer) which was put out with the public consultation last year.
HSE expects to issue its final restriction opinions later this year. The decision to apply any UK REACH restrictions as a further regulatory measure, or not to do so, will subsequently be made by the Defra Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish and Welsh Ministers.