Munira Wilson MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 14956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a) what AI training her Department provides, b) how many hours of AI training her Department provides and c) what topics and skills are covered.
Answer: Defra provides a wide range of AI training through the Government Learning Framework, available via the online prospectus, and Civil Service Professional Curriculums for digital learning. Topics range from an introduction to AI to learning on cyber securi...
Answered 13 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 13215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what artificial intelligence services and tools are used by her Department; and whether her Department has a contract with providers for those services.
Answer: This Government is committed to adopting artificial intelligence in a way that is transparent, responsible and accountable to the public.The department uses AI-enabled services and tools where they can support the productivity of officials and improve the...
Answered 9 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordPlastics: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce plastic pollution across the UK.
Answer: The Government recognises the scale and impact of plastic pollution on the environment and is focused on preventing and reducing plastic and other litter entering the environment. We have a number of restrictions on unnecessary single use plastic products...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordRiver Crane and River Thames: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116606More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage discharges there have been into the (a) River Thames and (b) River Crane in the last five years.
Answer: The following water companies have permitted discharges of treated final effluent into the River Thames:Thames Water Utilities Ltd into the River Thames – 19Southern Water Services – 2Anglian Water Services – 4Albion Water – 1 35 of the most polluting Com...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Fees and ChargesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Environment Agency's decision to introduce charge funded regulation.
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) decision to introduce charge-funded regulation is enabled by the Water (Special Measures) Act, which allows the EA to recover the full costs of a broader range of enforcement activities from water companies. This approach is ...
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSewage: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions has the Environment Agency brought on illegal sewage spills by water companies in each year from 2000.
Answer: The Environment Agency has brought a total of 611 prosecutions against water companies for offences since 2000.
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to stop operator self monitoring of the water industry.
Answer: The Government has committed to ending ‘operator self-monitoring’ so water companies will no longer mark their own homework on pollution incidents. We are developing a new strengthened Open Monitoring approach for monitoring wastewater. This will be drive...
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSewage: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage works suffered a structural malfunction resulting in sewage discharge in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Environment Agency has published data on the number of water company wastewater pollution incidents by source, including from sewage treatment works, over the last five years. Water and Sewerage Pollution Incident Report for 2016-2024.
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Twickenham of 17 November 2025 on the Teddington Direct River Abstraction.
Answer: I thank the Honourable Member for Twickenham for writing and apologise for the delay in response. I have followed this up with the department will and respond shortly.
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDolphins and Whales: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of taking steps to help protect animals from the grindadrap.
Answer: The UK strongly opposes the hunting of all cetaceans other than some limited activities by indigenous people for clearly defined subsistence needs. Cessation of the grindadrap, or “The Grind” would be a positive step in improving the conservation and resi...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordBoats: Renewable EnergyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring boat owners using canals and rivers to generate their own renewable energy power.
Answer: Consideration of the inland waterways sector is included in the Department for Transport’s Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy (page 29) and accompanying Analytical Annex (page 12), published in 2025.
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHouseboats: Inland WaterwaysDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the position paper by the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities entitled The challenges around t
Answer: Navigation authorities are not housing authorities. Defra will consider the matters raised in the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities position paper about the residential use of inland waterways, and will engage with the Ministry of Housing, Comm...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Environment and Climate Change Committee's recommendations published in its policy letter to her, dated 28 October 2025, on Waste Crime.
Answer: The Department is considering the Environment and Climate Change Committee's recommendations on waste crime and will respond in due course.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCountryside: AccessDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the Access to Nature Green Paper.
Answer: The Government has announced, as part of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025, that we will bring forward an Access to Nature Green Paper within this Parliament to consult on proposals to improve and expand public access to the outdoors.
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Water CommissionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91471More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish the formal response to Sir John Cunliffe's Independent Water Commission's final report.
Answer: The Government will respond to the recommendations in full via a White Paper, published later this year. The White Paper will outline the Government’s vision for the future of the water sector, marking the most fundamental reset to our water system in a g...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNoise: PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77606More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the report by the European Environmental Agency Report entitled Environmental noise in Europe 2025, pu
Answer: Since leaving the EU, UK Governments have continued to undertake the noise mapping functions summarised for EU countries in this report. This is required by the Environmental Noise Regulations individually enacted into law by England, Wales, Scotland and ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordNoise: PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of noise pollution to the economy.
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency estimates that in 2018, around 100,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) were lost in England due to road traffic noise, across the UK population. DALYs are an internationally recognised metric where one DALY represents ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordThames WaterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the deadline is for Thames Water to submit its annual review of its Water Resources Management Plan under section 37A of the Water Industry Act 1991.
Answer: Thames Water submitted its latest annual review of its Water Resources Management Plan on 30 June 2025. This review covers the period April 2024 to March 2025. The Environment Agency and Ofwat are currently scrutinising this report.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
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