Barry Gardiner

16 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Written question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide a full list of licensed special administration practitioners in the UK who would be eligible to be appointed to undertake the special administration of a water comp

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to list the meetings she and her ministers have had with the NFFO since 9 June 2025.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will publish the response to the MMO's Stage 3 marine protected areas consultation.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish baseline data for the extent of degraded ecosystems in terrestrial, inland waters and the marine environments in the UK in line with Target 2 of the Global Biodiver

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made in delivering Target 2 of the Global Biodiversity framework.

9 Jun 2026 · Treasury

Thames Water: Insolvency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to UIN 5852, what advice her department has received from the ONS regarding the implications for ONS classification if Thames Water was taken into Special Administration.

9 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she agrees with Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission.

9 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the inclusion of Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission in full in the Water White Paper.

4 Jun 2026 · Treasury

Water Companies: Insolvency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her Department has had with the NAO on the use of the Special Administration Regime in the water sector.

4 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has had with the NAO on the use of the Special Administration Regime in the water sector.

2 Jun 2026 · Treasury

Water Companies: Insolvency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her department has had with the ONS regarding the use of the Special Administration Regime in the water sector.

1 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to designate bathing water status to the 2,487 recreationally-used freshwater sites identified by the Environment Agency which currently do not have such s

1 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her department has had with the ONS regarding the use of the Special Administration Regime in the water sector.

21 May 2026 · Department for Education

Assessments: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to mitigate the potential impact of hot weather on examination results.

21 May 2026 · Department for Education

Schools: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to meet with the Climate Change Committee to discuss the potential impact of climate change on the schools’ estate.

19 May 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions: Data Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government plans to take steps to balance its updated emissions estimates of data centres with the decarbonisation required in the fifth carbon budget.

19 May 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Data Centres: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when the National Policy Statement on data centres will be published for consultation.

14 May 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's policy is on operator self-monitoring.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2026 to Question 128631, how many of the 5 prosecutions related to offences which took place after 27 March 2020 were for sewage discharge offences.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 128631 to Question 27 April 2026, if she will list the 37 prosecutions by the (a) name of the water and/or sewage company prosecuted, (b) date of prosecution,

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thames Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the principal statutory duties are of Thames Water Utilities Limited's licence.

21 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April to Question 127788 on Water Companies: Prosecutions, of the 37 completed prosecutions against Water and Sewerage Companies since 27 March 2020, how m

16 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions the Environment Agency has completed against Water and Sewerage Companies for offences that have taken place since 27 March 2020.

16 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to answer Written Parliamentary Question UIN 123113.

16 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to answer Written Parliamentary Question UIN 124051.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, since 27 March 2020, how many offences relating to discharge of sewage from a water company asset have the Environment Agency prosecuted.

26 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 122633, on Water Companies: Repairs and Maintenance, whether her Department will publish the initial cost information on ending operator self-moni

25 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thames Water: FTI Consulting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings she has had with FTI consulting in which discussions took place regarding placing Thames Water into a Special Administration Regime.

25 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thames Water: FTI Consulting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the most recent advice that FTI Consulting have given the Department on placing Thames Water into a Special Administration Regime.

25 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thames Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the most recent legal advice her Department has been given with regards to initiating a Special Administration procedure for Thames Water.