Written questions

572 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of extended producer responsibility on pubs in Epping Forest constituency.

22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Glass: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the glass manufacturing sector on the potential impact of extended producer responsibility on glass packaging since 14 May 2025.

22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Glass: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the pub and brewing sector on the potential impact of extended producer responsibility on glass packaging since 14 May 2025.

21 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UK Trade with EU: Genetically Modified Organisms

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK-EU trade deal will require the repeal of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.

20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Genetically Modified Organisms: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK-EU trade deal will allow the roll-out of gene editing in (a) plants, (b) crops, (c) animals and (d) birds.

20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department had discussions with the UK fisheries sector on negotiations with the EU for the UK-EU trade deal.

20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether increasing fishing quotas for UK fisheries was discussed during negotiations on the UK-EU trade deal.

20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-EU trade deal on the sustainability of the fisheries sector.

13 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to include a ban on the importation of product where antibiotics have been used as growth promoters in all future international trade deals.

12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Dairy Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the import of Bovine Somatotropin-treated dairy products in trade deals.

12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Pigmeat: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the import of ractopamine-treated pork in trade deals.

12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Beef: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the import of hormone-treated beef in trade deals.

12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Poultry Meat: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the import of chlorine-washed poultry in trade deals.

12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Food: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Oral Statement of 8 May 2025 on Trade Negotiations, Official Report, columns 897-899, whether food imports under the UK-US Free Trade Agreement of (a) ractopamine-treated pork (b)

7 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Production

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of rainfall patterns in 2025 on domestic food production.

1 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horses: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proposals he plans bring forward to enforce the ban on live exports to slaughter under the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act 2024 specifically for Equidae.

30 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horses: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Equidae were recorded entering the UK via (a) Fishguard (b) Holyhead (c) Cairnryan (d) Birkenhead and (e) other ports in each year since 2023.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference oral contribution of 23 April 2025 by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Official Report, column 1141, if his Department

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference oral contribution of 23 April 2025 by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Official Report, columns 1136 and 1165, what pr

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference oral contribution of 23 April 2025 by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Official Report, column 1141, how much funding

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the projects funded by the Water Restoration Fund since 5 July 2024.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press notice by Ofwat entitled Ofwat approves £104bn upgrade to accelerate delivery of cleaner rivers and seas and secure long-term drinking water supplies for cu

23 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nicotine: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sale of illegal nicotine pouches.

1 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Nitrous Oxide: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of regulations governing the sale of nitrous oxide.

1 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Nitrous Oxide: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the (a) categorisation of nitrous oxide as a Class C drug and (b) the potential impacts this categorisation has on le

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mental Health: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in response to the hon. Member for Epping Forest during th

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the will increase funding for mental health services in rural areas.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mental Health: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State's oral contribution in response to the question from the hon. Member for Epping Forest of 20 March 2025, Official Report, c

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foot and Mouth Disease: Hungary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in Hungary.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Port of Dover: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to continue to provide funding for biosecurity checks onsite at the Port of Dover.

Source: official written-questions record.