Sarah Edwards MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Freight: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact on business of freight crime in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands; and if she will undertake an assessment of trends in the level of fre
Answer: This Government understands the significant and damaging impact freight crime has on businesses and drivers and we are carefully monitoring the increases in its frequency. The experience of cargo theft, where criminals are ripping the sides of lorries and...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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Freight: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle freight crime.
Answer: This Government understands the significant and damaging impact freight crime has on businesses and drivers and we are carefully monitoring the increases in its frequency. The experience of cargo theft, where criminals are ripping the sides of lorries and...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department will publish the revised Environmental Improvement Plan for 2025.
Answer: The Government has concluded a rapid review of the existing Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP23). We published a statement of the rapid review’s key findings on 30 January 2025. Publication of the revised EIP will follow later this year.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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Domestic Animals: Import ControlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce a digitalised equine ID and traceability system to prevent illegal export of (a) horses, (b) donkeys (c) and ponies.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government recognises the importance of the equine sector to the UK economy and of improving equine identification and traceability. We have no current plans to...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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Waste Disposal: Hospitality IndustryDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure hospitality businesses are not double charged for the handling of their waste, in the context of the introduction of extended producer responsibil
Answer: Under packaging extended producer responsibility, packaging producers are only liable for fees that cover the management of packaging waste collected from households. The regulations therefore make a distinction as to what is "household packaging&quo...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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Glass: PackagingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of extended producer responsibility for packaging on the glass industry.
Answer: Defra officials have engaged extensively with the glass sector in developing these reforms since 2019. Minister Creagh met with British Glass on 21 October 2024 and attended a glass re-use roundtable hosted by the British Beer & Pub Association on 14 ...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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Mortgages: Government AssistanceTreasuryTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37337More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help support mortgage prisoners.
Answer: The Government understands the challenges that mortgage prisoners face and will work with regulators and the industry to ensure that this issue is properly considered. There are significant measures in place to protect vulnerable mortgage borrowers across...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
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Mental Health Services: PrisonsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that healthcare treatment provided to prisoners with mental health conditions is adequate.
Answer: The Prison Mental Healthcare service specification reinforces that prison healthcare, including care for people with mental health problems, should provide excellent, safe, and effective services and interventions to all prisoners, equivalent to the servi...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
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Prisoners: Mental IllnessDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of prisoners are diagnosed with mental health conditions by region.
Answer: The following table shows the mental health population by region and as a percentage of the prison population: RegionsPercentageEast Midlands8%East of England8%London7%North East and Yorkshire7%North West8%South East8%South West7%West Midlands8%Grand Tota...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
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Animal Products: LabellingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a mandatory method of production labelling on all animal products.
Answer: The Government recognises the strong public interest in clearer animal welfare information on the food they buy. A public consultation on fairer food labelling was undertaken between March and May 2024 by the previous Government. This sought views on prop...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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