Tim Farron

26 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Spirits: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of spirits duty rates on the competitiveness of UK pubs comparted to pubs in Europe.

26 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Spirits: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data she holds on spirits duty revenue generated from pubs in (a) rural areas and (b) urban areas.

26 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of inflation-linked duty increases on the on-trade in each of the last three years.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: International Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made with her international counterparts on updating (a) the Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone and (b) other Unite

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to publish a new Clean Air Strategy.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish the revised Environmental Improvement Plan.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 45555 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, which local (a) monitoring and (b) modelling as part of the Local Air Quality Manageme

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales were attributable to (i) alcoholism, (ii) obesity, (iii) air pollution and (iv) smoking in the latest year for which data is avail

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 16 July 2025 to UIN 66131, which (a) local authorities and (b) Metro Mayors have not published local plans to achieve compliance with legal limits for nitroge

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to (a) revoke Environment Act 1995 Air Quality Directions and (b) introduce further directions to (i) achieve compliance with nitrogen dioxide limit values and (ii) a

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what localised hotspots for exceedances of the nitrogen dioxide annual limit value have been identified by which Air Quality Annual Status Report in each reporting zone in 2024.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 16 July 2025 to UIN 66132, what progress she has made on further policies to tackle ammonia emissions to help reduce the risk to the 2030 target.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 8 July 2025 to UIN 63555, which localised hotspots in which reporting zone in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales are delaying compl

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2025 to UIN 39815, which (a) cities, (b) towns, (c) agglomeration zones and (d) non-agglomeration zones in which reporting zones in (i) England, (ii)

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to review (a) restrictions on the use of virtual fencing technology under the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme and (b) the eligibility criteria fo

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has considered aligning agricultural support in England with the approach taken in Scotland, where virtual fencing systems are eligible under the Future Farming Investment

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support farmer uptake of innovative tools such as virtual fencing.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will review (a) the eligibility of virtual fencing technology under existing agricultural support schemes in England, such as Farming in Protected Landscapes and (b) its potenti

17 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with international counterparts on the protection of Christian women in Chibok, Nigeria.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current SwimFo system in helping the public understand bathing-water risks.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Swimming

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) people swimming away from the shoreline and (b) all other lake users are considered in future bathing-water monitoring strategies.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to publish a review comparing UK bathing-water (a) monitoring and (b) classification systems with international best practice.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of current sampling coverage at designated bathing-water sites.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lake Windermere: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to increase spatial representation of sampling points around Lake Windermere including areas not currently designated as bathing-water locations.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to allocate funding for the introduction of a (a) traffic-light system and (b) publicly accessible platform in the context of improving the communication of bathing-w

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lakes: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a different classification system for lake ecosystems.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to move away from multi-year averages and adopt a more real-time approach to reporting bathing-water quality data.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to publish updated guidance on incorporating (a) blue-green algae and (b) other additional public health factors into bathing-water quality assessments.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lake Windermere: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to allocate funding to ensure that bathing-water sampling in Lake Windermere takes place year-round rather than seasonally.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lake Windermere: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce a pollution risk costing model for Windermere based on Environment Agency modelling of other mainly coastal designated bathing sites.