Alberto Costa MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Bovine Tuberculosis: VaccinationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to offer farmers badger vaccination in 2025 to tackle bTB in wildlife populations.
Answer: Badger vaccination is proven to significantly reduce the risk of infection and spread of disease within badger populations. The Government is committed to strengthening the evidence on how badger vaccination reduces TB in cattle. We know this is crucial f...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBovine Tuberculosis: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to issue supplementary cull licences in 2025.
Answer: The Government has started work on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to continue to drive down disease rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and to end the badger cull by the end of this Parliament. Licensing and authorisation decisions are ...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: Waste ManagementDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to assess the potential toxicity of bioplastics; and whether he plans to introduce specific toxicity testing requirements beyond existing waste mana
Answer: Chemical substances, including monomers, which are constituent components of bioplastics manufactured in or imported into the UK are subject to the requirements of our regulatory framework. This includes UK REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation &...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) define and (b) set standards for the use of (i) biodegradable and (ii) compostable plastics.
Answer: A Circular Economy Taskforce of experts has been convened from across government, industry, academia and civil society to help us develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England and a series of roadmaps detailing the interventions that the Government and ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMicroplastics: PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report entitled Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains, published in Nature Medicine on 3 February 2025, what assessment he has made of the pot
Answer: Microplastics have been widely detected in the environment – in the air, soils, rivers, and the seas. We are aware there is still much work to be done to strengthen our understanding of the impacts of microplastics in the water and wider environment. Defr...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBeavers: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on developing a licensing regime to enable the wild release of beavers.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. Defra will continue to work with Natural England to develop our approach to beaver reintroductions and management in England. This work includes the development of ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordQuarries: Air PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) amending the Quarry Regulations 1999 to ensure that (i) levels of PM10 and PM2.5 particulate emissions in quarries are (A)
Answer: Under The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations, environmental permits for quarries issued by local authorities must already include emission limit values, monitoring requirements and other controls for particulate matter and other air ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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