Liz Jarvis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Forests: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of his policies in tackling global deforestation.
Answer: We recognise the urgency of taking action to ensure that UK consumption of forest risk commodities is not driving deforestation. Deforestation associated with UK consumption is estimated to have fallen by 55% since 2005, although progress has slowed over ...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will (a) continue and (b) improve the Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy.
Answer: Cleaning up our waters, including iconic sites such as chalk streams is a top government priority. That is why on 23 October 2024, the Secretary of State announced the launch of an independent commission to fundamentally transform how our water system wor...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Environment: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect blue carbon ecosystems.
Answer: In England, we have established a comprehensive network of 181 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), including 3 Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs), which cover most of our saltmarsh and seagrass habitats. While blue carbon habitats may not always be an expli...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on publishing a timeline to bring forward legislative measures to end trail hunting.
Answer: The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal, such as Foxes, with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. The aim of Trail Hunting is to simulate traditional hunting as practised before the Hunti...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to provide bespoke protections for (a) the River Itchen and (b) other chalk streams; whether he plans to use planning reforms to support the protection of chalk stream
Answer: The River Itchen is already designated as a Special Area of Conservation and many of our chalk streams benefit from some form of designation. Chalk streams can be considered when setting the outcomes for a future system of environmental assessment. This G...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish an anti-littering strategy.
Answer: Littering is a crime that blights communities and the environment. This Government is considering what further steps are needed to help local authorities reduce litter and keep their streets clean. In the meantime, we are introducing a Deposit Return Sche...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of moratoriums on the building of incinerators.
Answer: Over the last 14 years, England has seen recycling rates stall, meaning too much waste is dealt with through incineration or thrown in landfill. Under new plans, published alongside Defra’s Residual Waste Infrastructure Capacity Note, the Government makes...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRiversDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to include the protection of chalk streams the review of the water sector.
Answer: Ministers are currently working through priorities and options for future reform.
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTrappingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to implement a total ban on snares.
Answer: This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government will introduce the most ambitious programme for animal welfare in a generation. As outlined in our manifesto, we will bring an end to the use of snare...
Answered 9 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordGreyhound RacingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning greyhound racing.
Answer: The Government is aware of the concerns that surround greyhound racing. However, we also recognise that the sport is already attempting to address many of these issues. The Government is monitoring the sport’s progress and should further measures and prot...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
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