Anna Sabine MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Food: PricesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce price controls on food.
Answer: It is not for the Government to set retail food prices nor to comment on day-to-day commercial decisions taken by businesses. We continue to monitor all key agricultural commodities. The UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group monitors UK agricultural mark...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSupermarkets: ProfitsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of profits earned by (a) supermarkets and (b) food multinationals in the last five yea
Answer: It is not for the Government to set retail food prices nor to comment on day-to-day commercial decisions taken by businesses. We continue to monitor all key agricultural commodities. The UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group monitors UK agricultural mark...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42119More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussion he has had with the Circular Economy Taskforce on promoting repair and reuse.
Answer: This Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. We have convened a Circular Economy Taskforce, comprising experts from industry, academia, and civil society, to help develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England. The strategy will m...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCountryside: AccessDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right of responsible access to the English countryside.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of providing access to the outdoors for people’s health and wellbeing and is working to ensure that this access is safe and appropriate. We are committed to increasing access to nature, and have already set out sev...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCountryside: AccessDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to increase access to the countryside.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of providing access to the outdoors for people’s health and wellbeing and is working to ensure that this access is safe and appropriate. We are committed to increasing access to nature, and have already set out sev...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCountryside: AccessDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of greater access to the countryside on (a) mental and (b) physical health.
Answer: The Government recognises the significant mental and physical health benefits that greater access to the countryside can provide. Spending time in nature is associated with improved mental and physical health, including lowering the risk of obesity and ty...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: ProsecutionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were prosecuted for illegal fly tipping in 2023-24.
Answer: Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and enforcement actions, such as prosecutions, to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. Data for the 2023/24 report...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to improve the enforcement of anti-fly tipping rules.
Answer: This Government has committed to forcing fly-tippers and vandals to clean up the mess that they have created. This will build on the sanctions already available for fly-tipping which include fixed penalty notices of up to £1000, seizing of vehicles and pr...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle fly-tipping in rural areas.
Answer: This Government understands the difficulty that fly-tipping poses to all landowners. We have committed to forcing fly-tippers and vandals to clean up the mess that they have created and will provide further details on this in due course. We continue to wo...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPeatlands: SomersetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect peatlands in Somerset.
Answer: In our manifesto we said that we will expand nature-rich habitats such as wetlands and peat bogs. In Somerset we are restoring and improving our peatlands through a number of projects, including the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme, Landscape Reco...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage farmers to implement natural flood management measures.
Answer: The new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes aim to help the environment while supporting farming and food production. These will include support for farmers and land managers to adopt natural flood management approaches in a way that reduces flood...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Frome and East SomersetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage investment in natural capital projects in Frome and East Somerset constituency.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) is developing an initiative called Heart of Wessex that incorporates large parts of the Frome and East Somerset constituency. It is led by the EA and works across Natural England, The Forestry Commission, local eNGOs and commun...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCrops: SomersetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) apple farmers and (b) cider makers whose crops have been affected by ermine moths in Somerset.
Answer: Dessert and culinary apples play an important role in local economies, with the sector worth a combined £188 million in 2023. The Government is committed to championing British farming and, in partnership with the sector, we are considering a number of wa...
Answered 5 Aug 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Frome: PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of pollution levels in the River Frome.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) undertake a programme of ecological, water quality and chemical monitoring on the Somerset Frome according to the requirements defined by the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (W...
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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