Written questions

2,337 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests and Land: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on forests and land use. what steps he has taken to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

12 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nature Conservation: Finance

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the press release by the Prime Minister, entitled Prime Minister commits £3bn UK climate finance to supporting nature, published on 11 January 2021, if he will p

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers secure long term private finance for nature restoration.

6 Mar 2024 · 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, if he will respond to Question 13730 on Environmental Land Management Schemes tabled by the hon. Member for Croydon North on 8 February 2024.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of the marine protected area network is in (a) effective management and (b) favorable condition.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support farmers pursue nature-friendly farming.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedges and Ditches: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help protect hedgerows.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help tackle biodiversity decline.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2024 to Question 13732 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure, for what reason funding has been reprofiled; and

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's timetable is for publishing the report of the Responsible Dog Ownership working group.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Primates: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the accompanying guidance for the Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Peatlands and Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, published on 27 October 2021, how much and what proportion of the £0.3 billion allocated to his Department for

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to plant an additional 75,000 acres of trees a year by the end of the next Parliament, how much has been spent on tree plan

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Inflation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made on the average 12-month inflation rate in (a) agricultural outputs and (b) agricultural inputs in each year since 2010.

28 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Food Strategy Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish a progress report against the food strategy goals.

27 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Water Companies: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of fines issued to water companies were uncollected in each year since 2010.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the National Police Chiefs Council on the (a) enforcement and (b) prioritisation of the addition of XL Bully type dogs to Section 1 of the

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse is of training dog legislation officers to enforce the addition of XL Bully type dogs to Section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Areas: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Fourth Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of Session 2022-23 on Rural Mental Health, HC248, published on 9 May 2023, what progress his De

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will launch a consultation on the potential impact of increasing production costs on farmers’ mental health.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the money unspent across his Department's budgets in 2023.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban the payment of bonuses for water bosses who fail to meet their environmental obligations.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to review the effectiveness of the Environmental Land Management scheme.

8 Feb 2024 · Cabinet Office

Agriculture: Business

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the total number of (a) farming and (b) growing businesses that have gone out of business in each year since 2010.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Convention on Biological Diversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on the agreements made at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15).

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the ban on American XL Bullies on the (a) rescue and (b) veterinary sectors.

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of exemption applications to keep an XL Bully dog his Department has (a) received and (b) processed since the XL Bully ban was announced.

1 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pesticides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides.

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Public Buildings: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number (a) police stations, (b) fire stations, (c) hospitals, (d) ambulance stations, (e) residential care homes, (f) children’s homes and (g) social

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of damage from flooding in each year since 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.