Manuela Perteghella MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Weed Act 1959Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60542More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review the Weeds Act 1959.
Answer: The Government regularly monitors the effectiveness of its legislation. At present we are not planning to review the Weeds Act 1959.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSewersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that local water companies promptly implement new requirements following the enactment of Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management
Answer: This Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new developments. These should be to designs that cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits, offe...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSewersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for enacting Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to (a) make sustainable drainage systems mandatory and (b) remove the automatic right t
Answer: This Government is strongly committed to requiring standardised Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new developments. These should be to designs that cope with changing climatic conditions as well as delivering wider water infrastructure benefits, offe...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: IncentivesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60235More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent executives from water companies that have been sanctioned for releasing sewage into waterways from receiving bonuses.
Answer: The Government is clear that transformative change across the water sector is needed to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas, and modernise the sector for decades to come. Unfair bonuses have been banned under new powers given to Ofwat within the Water (Sp...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: InfrastructureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to allocate additional funding to upgrade sewage infrastructure in (a) rural and (b) suburban communities impacted by frequent overflows.
Answer: Ofwat’s final determinations for Price Review 2024 (PR24) set out a £104 billion upgrade for the water sector. Water companies are investing over £11 billion in PR24, a record amount, to improve nearly 3,000 storm overflows across England and Wales over t...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: Import ControlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on requiring imports of (a) eggs, (b) pork and (c) fur to meet UK animal welfare standards to be permitte
Answer: Ministers and officials meet regularly to address these important topics. The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. We will promote robust standards nationally and internation...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support people affected by fly-tipping required to clear waste on private land at their own expense.
Answer: We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. We want to reduce incidents in the first place so that fewer landowners are affected. Local authorities have a range of enforcement powers to tackle fly-tipping and we want to se...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) enforcement agencies to tackle fly-tipping in rural areas.
Answer: We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. We want to reduce incidents in the first place so that fewer landowners are affected. Local authorities have a range of enforcement powers to tackle fly-tipping and we want to se...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide support to people affected by environmental crimes.
Answer: We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. We want to reduce incidents in the first place so that fewer landowners are affected. Local authorities have a range of enforcement powers to tackle fly-tipping and we want to se...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to publish a consultation on access reform.
Answer: We are currently developing policy to improve access to nature, working closely with other Government departments and key stakeholders, and further information will be available in due course.
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to expand public access to land under the Right to Roam provisions.
Answer: Our countryside and green spaces are a source of great national pride and which boost public health and wellbeing, but too many across the country are left without access to the great outdoors. That is why the last Labour Government expanded public access...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlants: Import ControlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) levels of risk and (b) rates of checks on plants at the UK border.
Answer: An enhanced risk-based approach is already undertaken at the UK border, where regulated plants and plant products have been categorised into high, medium, and low risk categories. The principle of risk-based controls, as previously applied under the EU re...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHorticulture: Import ControlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) costs and (b) impact of the Border Target Operating Model on Environmental Horticulture businesses.
Answer: Defra continues to monitor and review the impact of the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM), including the Border Control Post at Sevington. We are working closely with industry, trade partners and enforcement agencies to minimise disruption and costs to...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSewage: Stratford-on-AvonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle sewage dumping in the (a) rivers and (b) brooks of Stratford-on-Avon constituency.
Answer: The Government has taken immediate and substantial action to address water companies who are not performing for the environment or their customers. In July, we announced swift action to begin resetting the water sector, including ringfencing vital funding...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to take steps to (a) bring forward legislative proposals to improve protections for farmed fish; and what steps his Department is taking to strengthen the
Answer: The Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing was published last year. A GB-wide farmed trout joint Government and industry working group is now examining the issues raised in the report to explore the...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofwat in regulating water companies.
Answer: The previous Government weakened the regulators and failed to hold water companies to account. The new Government’s water (Special Measures) Bill will give Ofwat tough new powers to hold water companies to account where they do not deliver for customers a...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
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