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51 records in UK in 2023
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question (a) 5477 and (b) 5478 tabled by the Rt hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell on 6 December 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to ensure that representatives of the environmental horticulture industry are included in her Department's Domestic Advisory Group.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the planned deadline of January 2024 for Environment Agency Regulatory Position Statement 197.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2023
The Land Environment Tactical Communication & Information Systems (LETacCIS) programme is a capability and business change programme that will deliver the Land Domain’s deployed digital backbone from formation headquarters to dismounted soldiers through t...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2023
My hon. Friend The Minister for Defence Procurement (James Cartlidge) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Land Environment Tactical Communication & Information Systems (LETacCIS) programme is a capability and business change programm...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there have been any power cuts on their Department's property in each of the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to publish their response to the UK Marine Strategy Part Three: Programme of Measures consultation, which closed on November 29th 2021.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to extend eligibility for business improvement funding provided by her Department to the environmental horticulture sector.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to discourage banks regulated in the UK from supporting businesses which receive income from industrial livestock companies contributing to deforestation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposals in the Blue Smoke publication Unveiling Equalities: a briefing examining senior appointments at key UN environment and development bodies, published in November.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2023
A Bill to confer powers on and place duties on the Environment Agency in respect of the monitoring of water quality; to make provision about environmental permits for water discharge activities; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2023
A Bill to exempt from Value Added Tax goods or services which are beneficial to the environment, to health and safety, to education or for charitable purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2023
A Bill to provide for a category of protection for chalk streams for the purpose of providing additional protections from pollution, abstraction and other forms of environmental damage; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question 1853 tabled by the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on 14 November 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department provides to (a) farmers and (b) land managers to protect grasslands.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of land management practices on the amount of carbon stored in grassland soil.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 60902 on Environment Protection: EU Law, whether she plans to replicate regulations (a) nine and (b) 10 in the National Emis
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department missed any statutory deadlines to respond to information requests submitted under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the environmental impact of (a) meat and (b) dairy cows.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to promote the adoption of green technologies within the shipbuilding sector of the defence industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much investment in the Royal Navy fleet will be required to meet the terms of international agreements to reduce the environmental impact of the maritime fleet.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps through the National Planning Policy Framework to protect parks and green spaces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on the comparative environmental impact of (a) plant-based and (b) animal-based milks.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities take relevant environmental requirements into account when considering new housing developments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2023
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much and what proportion of UK Official Development Assistance spending has been on green skills in each of the last 10 years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2023
A Bill to place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms, including an obligation to conduct and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments on their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains; to make provision for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply with the duty; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions on fishing negotiations he has had with his counterparts in the Crown Dependencies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such progr
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to strengthen the environmental duties and responsibilities of British mining companies operating overseas.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the provisions in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 on levels of environmental protection.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2023
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in Colombia about reported criminalisation of environmental defenders in that country.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 16 June 2020 to Question 57159 on Environment Protection, when he plans to embed the environmental principles detailed in Section 17 of the Environment
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, published 31 January 2023, (a) how the target for 65% to 80% of farmers to adopt nature fri
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's waste policies for supporting (a) reuse, (b) prevention and c) recycling of waste materials.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to re-introduce environmental protections following the end of cross-compliance in January 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the annual cost to the public purse of his Department's expenditure on (a) IT infrastructure, (b) IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 and (c) legacy IT infrastructure for
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Central Digital & Data Office's guidance entitled, Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the environmental impacts from including saponins, phosphorous peroxide, and other substances which are irritants or otherwise harmful to worms and other soil organisms, in products labelle
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to review the funding rules for the Natural Environment Research Council so that international partners can be costed in with a value up to 30% of a grant proposal.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many ministerial meetings his Department has held with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on scoping plans for the Greening Government Commitments 2025-30.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 November 2023
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 25 October (HL10678), what steps they intend to take to ensure that the environmental horticulture industry, previously known as “ornamental” horticulture and not including f
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to support the provision of a nutritionally balanced plant-based meals on menus for staff in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether senior officials from his Department have travelled to China since January 2019.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a ban on trail hunting on land owned by her Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data their Department holds on the (a) number and (b) total cost of replacing (i) laptops, (ii) mobile phones, (iii) memory sticks and (iv) external hard drives that have been (A)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) environmental and (b) biodiversity impact assessment she has made of the production of ground source heat pump technology.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 November 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Green Finance Strategy, when the Government plans to publish the consultation on introducing a Green Taxonomy for the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of SCS2 civil servants on full-time equivalent contracts in her Department are women.