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51 records in UK in 2019
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many potential breaches of (a) wildlife and (b) environmental protection legislation have been reported against (i) HS2 Ltd and (ii) their contractors in each of the last five years; and what steps have bee
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 November 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of staff in his Department in receipt of each category of Honour in (a) December 2018 and (b) June 2019 were (i) from ethnic minority backgrounds and (ii) female aged (
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether local planning authorities have sufficient resources to implement the proposed requirements of the Environment Bill.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who is responsible for digitisation in her Department; and what mechanisms the person with responsibility for digitisation uses to champion digitisation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) affirmative and (b) negative EU Exit statutory instruments she plans to lay before Parliament in November 2019.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to replace EU LIFE funding for projects such as the Little Tern Recovery Project at Pagham Harbour after the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2019
My noble friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Climate Change (Lord Duncan of Springbank ) has today made the following statement:I attended the EU Environment Council on 4th October in Luxembourg. Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish C...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2019
I attended the EU Environment Council on 4th October in Luxembourg. Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, also attended. I wish to update the House on the matters discussed. UNFCCC COP25 preparati...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the national curriculum includes the knowledge and skills needed for work in (a) the renewable energy sector and (b) green technology.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in her Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements her Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based sta
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
What steps she is taking to support the development of new clean-energy technologies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish her Department's response to the UK Overseas Territories Environment Funding Call for Evidence.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the summary of the UK Overseas Territories Environment Funding Call for Evidence will be published before the next UK Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council; and whethe
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when representatives of the (a) Jain and (b) Zoroastrian community were invited to national events organised by his Department in each of the last two years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to protect the (1) water level, and (2) quality, of chalk streams and rivers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has plans to replicate the EU LIFE funding programme and apply it to the UK Overseas Territories after the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 8 October 2019 to Questions 292921 and 292922, what specific programmes, projects and deliverables are covered by (a) Arms Length Bodies Partnership And
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps she is taking to encourage green investment in Romford constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 October 2019
A Bill to make provision for requiring public bodies to act in pursuit of the environmental, social, economic and cultural well-being of the United Kingdom in a way that accords with the Future Generations principle; to require public bodies to establish and meet well-being objectives and report on these and their actions; to require public bodies to publish Future Generations impact assessments and account for preventative spending; to establish a Commissioner for Future Generations for the United Kingdom to advise, assist and oversee public bodies in doing things in accordance with this Act; to provide for the establishment of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Future Generations; and for connected purposes
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of site inspections carried out by the Environment Agency in each year since 2014.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many equal pay reviews there have been in her Department since 2010; what the dates were of those reviews; and whether her Department plans to undertake an equal pay review in 2019
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of Environment Agency FTE staff on (a) temporary and (b) permanent contracts in each year from 2009; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what environmental assessment UK Export Finance makes before agreements are made.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public appointments she is responsible for.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the pay system in her Department has been changed to take account of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mr G Willetts and Others on
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will invite representatives of the Jain community to national events organised by her Department; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her department has introduced to improve personal w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290327 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if she will introduce the same policy as the Department of Bus
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
Today, I am introducing the Environment Bill into the House of Commons, which will play a crucial role in delivering on the Government’s goal that this will be the first generation to leave our environment in a better state than we found it.The case for t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Theresa Villiers) has today made the following statement:Today, I am introducing the Environment Bill into the House of Commons, which will play a crucial role in delive...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of St Helens Council on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a mandatory and consistent (a) UK-wide logo and (b) on pack information for compostable food packaging; a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2019
To make provision about targets, plans and policies for improving the natural environment; to make provision for the Office for Environmental Protection; to make provision about waste and resource efficiency; to make provision about air quality; to make provision for the recall of products that fail to meet environmental standards; to make provision about water; to make provision about nature and biodiversity; to make provision for conservation covenants; to make provision about the regulation of chemicals; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings she had with her Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser from 1 June to 31 August 2019.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 October 2019
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 October 2019
My noble friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Climate Change (Lord Duncan of Springbank ) has today made the following statement:The next EU Environment Council will take place on 4 October, in Luxembourg. I will attend, represe...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 October 2019
The next EU Environment Council will take place on 4 October, in Luxembourg. I will attend, representing the UK. The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform of the Scottish Government, Roseanna Cunningham, will also attend.On cli...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations the UK Government has received on the UK’s relationship with the European Environment Agency from (a) the Scottish Government, (b) the Welsh Government and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the monitoring, measuring and reporting of environmental outcomes in the event that the UK ends its membership of the European
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK Government plans to seek membership of or co-operator country status with the European Environment Agency in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the UK's role in global ocean conservation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
Today I am notifying the House about recent announcements I have made on measures to enhance the welfare and protection of animals. These include proposals to address long journeys for live animals that are being transported for slaughter, and to restrict...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Theresa Villiers) has today made the following statement: Today I am notifying the House about recent announcements I have made on measures to enhance the welfare and pr...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 6 and 9 September to Questions 282507, 282510, 282514, 282515, 282516, 282517, 282518, 282519, 282520, 282521, 282522, 282523, 282524, 282525, 282527, 282528
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 6 and 9 September to Questions 282507, 282510, 282514, 282515, 282516, 282517, 282518, 282519, 282520, 282521, 282522, 282523, 282524, 282525, 282527, 282528
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will invite representatives of the Jain community to national events organised by her Department; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 October 2019
To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the arrangements for environmental protection and upholding environmental standards from the date of the UK leaving the EU and the date on which the Office for Environmental Protection is established.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 September 2019
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will commission a review of the conditions attached to Official Development Assistance to ensure that aid recipients follow accepted best practice in relation to (a) the disposal of plasti