Kerry McCarthy

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Development Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will maintain rural development funding for (a) community farms, (b) processing, (c) marketing and (d) local food should the UK leave the EU.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department supports the transition to agroecological farming by 2030 as recommended by the Royal Society of Arts Food, Farming and Countryside Commission report published o

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of whole farm agroecological systems.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Department is taking to encourage farmers to engage with the tests and trials phase of Environmental Land Management Scheme.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to ensure that (a) silvo-arable and (b) silvo-pastoral systems are included in Environmental Land Management Scheme trials.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Department has to prioritise the role of agroecological farming systems including agroforestry in future farming and environmental payments.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trees

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to enable the natural regeneration of trees and shrubs to support achieving the UK's 2050 net zero target.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environmental Land Management scheme test and trials projects will (a) incorporate an objective to increase tree cover through woodland creation, agroforestry or increased hed

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Committee on Climate Change scenario is being used to calculate any costs associated with afforestation and tree planting outside of woodlands to meet the UK’s net zero target.

26 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's plan is for supporting new woodland establishment and tree planting during the transition period from the existing Countryside Stewardship scheme to the new Envir

3 Sep 2019 · Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to UK business of the roll-out of the off-payroll rules to the private sector.

3 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Clothing: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage sustainable fashion from production to purchase in order to meet (a) UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 on sustainable consumption and

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Experiments: Chemicals

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government will require companies to repeat tests on animals if previously shared data on chemical substances registered under EU REACH is no longer accessible.

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to respond to the recommendations of the Children’s Right2Food Charter.

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Breastfeeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of (a) bringing forward legislative proposals to protect breastfeeding mothers at work and (b) reducing the promotion of breast-milk subst

2 Sep 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the availability of ongoing radiotherapy treatment in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

24 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a Minister of his Department attended the Trondheim conference on biodiversity in July 2019.

23 Jul 2019 · Home Office

Refugees: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to support female refugees to access English language lessons as set out in the Integrated Communities Strategy 2018.

22 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October 2019 on the UK’s food warehousing and storage capacity.

22 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October 2019, on the supply of fresh produce.

18 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that there is no duplication of animal testing for chemical registrations in the event that the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.

18 Jul 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a deadline for NHS England and Vertex Pharmaceuticals to come to an agreement to enable access to cystic fibrosis medicines produced by that company.

18 Jul 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions there have been between Vertex Pharmaceuticals and NHS England with on cystic fibrosis medicines.

17 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deep Sea Mining

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential environmental effects of the disturbance of deep-sea carbon stores through deep-sea mining.

16 Jul 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deep Sea Mining

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential environmental effects of deep-sea mining.

5 Jul 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government has taken in the last year to help ensure women workers in the supermarket food supply chain are treated fairly.

5 Jul 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support supermarkets to publish a human rights strategy for workers in the food supply chain in the UK.

5 Jul 2019 · Home Office

Business: Slavery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking in (a) the UK and (b) overseas to tackle (a) working conditions and (b) exploitation in the food supply chain.

5 Jul 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the he has made of the merits of the application of Oxfam’s supermarket scorecard on human suffering in global supply chains for his Department’s policies.

1 Jul 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Guatemala: Indigenous Peoples

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the Guatemalan Government in response to reports of threats against human rights defender Domingo Vasquez and other members of the Nu