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51 records in UK in 2020
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the draft policy statement on environmental principles for public consultation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the economic recovery from the covid-19 outbreak aligns with the Government's long-term targets on climate and biodiversity.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any reforms to the planning system protect the environment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many jobs the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution will create in the Dudley North constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government will take to ensure a green aviation recovery.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of explosions on the sea floor on the (a) health and (b) quality of marine life in British waters.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the The State of the Planet address by the United Nations Secretary-General at Columbia University on 2 December.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made in developing the framework for the 2021-25 Greening Government Commitments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to include the business use of taxis and PHVs by the public sector in the next iteration of the Greening Government Commitments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of applications for (a) judicial review and (b) judicial review involving environmental claims have succeeded at final hearing in each year since the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 came into
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of ecological damage to the banks of the River Lugg; and what plans they have to prevent similar events occurring elsewhere in England.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Edwin Poots MLA on Government assistance to Northern Ireland in its environmental policy preparation for the end of the transition period.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Fergus Ewing MSP on Government assistance to Scotland in its environmental policy preparation for the end of the transition period.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the (a) adequacy and (b) comprehensiveness of the priority habitat inventory on the Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside website.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons Natural England has the power under the Environmental Impact Assessment regulations to require a site to be restored if environmental damage has been caused by agricul
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what role (a) his Department (b) the Forestry Commission (c) Natural England (d) any other relevant bodies play in ensuring (a) deep peat and (b) other valuable wildlife habitats are n
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local communities are consulted on the environmental impact of the proposed developments for (a) growth and (b) renewal zones outlined in t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the report by the Legatum Institute The Legatum Prosperity Index 2020, published on 16 November, that Lesotho is among the top 10 worst countries in the world in the natural
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of simplifying the environmental impact assessment for new developments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to prevent microplastics from tyre degradation from flowing into rivers and seas.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to reschedule Green GB Week.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many jobs the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution will create in Wolverhampton South West constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to require his Department and its agencies to provide a payroll deduction service to allow staff to save more easily with a credit union; and if he will make a stateme
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of micro-plastics emitted from discarded car tyres in Britain’s coastal waters.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many catchment management schemes were included in each of the water companies’ environmental programmes agreed by Ofwat in the recent periodic review (PR19), and what proportion t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Environment Agency has to take steps to improve the quality of chalk streams under River Basin Management Plans under the Water Framework Directive; and if he will make
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency has taken to consult (a) locally and (b) nationally on the development of River Basin Management Plans; if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October 2020 to Question 98265 and to the November 2020 spending review CP 330, whether he plans to ensure that the Environment Agency receives adequate fun
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to work with (a) the oil and gas sector and (b) other parts of the private sector to support the technical and vocational skills training required to achieve the Prime Minist
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what penalties will be introduced to enforce the new law preventing illegal deforestation in the supply chains of UK businesses.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department took to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the (a) medium and (b) long term environmental effects of (i) hydrogen and (ii) electricity as energies across their sourcin
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to work with the (a) oil and gas industry and (b) other parts of the private sector to support the technical and vocational skills training required to meet the commitments i
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government why there is no mention of (1) the rail passenger, or (2) the rail freight, sector in their The ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, published on 18 November.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much Government funding arising from his plans for a green industrial revolution is planned to be allocated to Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase the number of green jobs.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 November 2020
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs which could be created for the purpose of undertaking (a) environmentally efficient retrofitting of homes and (b) the c
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2020
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to provide fiscal support for jobs that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources through the forthcoming Spending Review.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage consumers to make more environmentally friendly purchase decisions.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of his Department's staff have been redeployed since 1 July 2020 to work on (a) covid-19 response and (b) the transition period following the departure of the UK from the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which workstreams in his Department have been paused or suspended to prioritise covid-19 response or exiting the EU transition work since 1 July 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to implement the £500-million Blue Planet Fund to restore marine ecosystems that the Prime Minister committed to at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity; wh
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 November 2020
What steps he is taking to ensure that (a) environmental impact assessments and (b) strategic environmental assessments are prioritised as part of the Government's planning reforms.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answers of 7 September 2020 to Question 82123 and of 10 November 2020 to Question 908549, for what reason the estimate of the number of jobs that that funding coul
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to ensure that trade unions organising (a) seafarers, (b) port workers and (c) offshore oil and gas workers are consulted as part of the work of the Green
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 November 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement on the future of financial services by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 9 November (HC Deb, cols 619–21), what plans they have to consult on the new green taxonomy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 November 2020
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on Green Sovereign Bonds.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 November 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of train delay were attributed to vegetation on each Network Rail Region in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020 to date.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to use green gilts to promote (1) waste recovery, and (2) energy generation from waste.