Mary Kelly Foy MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Weedkillers: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of prohibiting the use of weed killers such as glyphosate.
Answer: The Government’s first priority with regard to pesticides, including weed killers, is to ensure that they will not harm people or pose unacceptable risks to the environment. Pesticides are only authorised following a thorough scientific risk assessment th...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Public SectorDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish a response to the consultation in 2022 on public sector food and catering policy.
Answer: The Government is reviewing the policy. Our ambition, set out in our election manifesto, is for half of all food supplied into the public sector to be from local British producers, or certified to higher environmental standards whilst being in line with W...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFarmers: IncomeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that farmers have a stable income.
Answer: This Government strongly believes in the importance of farming. For this Government, food security is national security, requiring a sustainable, resilient and healthy food system that works with nature and supports British Farmers. The Government underst...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFish Farming: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the standard of welfare of farmed fish in the UK.
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 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNorthumbrian WaterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofwat in regulating Northumbrian Water.
Answer: Ofwat will not hesitate to hold water companies to account where they fall short of our expectations. For example, Ofwat recently issued a proposed enforcement order against Northumbrian Water for the management of wastewater treatment works which propose...
Answered 20 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNeonicotinoidsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to change existing policies to prevent the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Answer: This Government is committed to preventing the use of those neonicotinoid pesticides that threaten our vital pollinators. At this stage, officials are currently determining the most effective way to implement this commitment.
Answered 13 Sept 2024
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