Sarah Olney MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Infrastructure: Coastal Areas and Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to fund (a) rural and (b) coastal (i) infrastructure and (ii) services.
Answer: This Government is committed to improving the quality of life for people living and working in coastal and rural areas, so that we can realise the full potential of rural business and communities. In addition to funding for sustainable farming and nature ...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRainforests: AmazoniaDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 21168 on Amazonia: Rainforests, if he will provide a breakdown of the funding to the Andes-Amazon Biodiverse Landscape Fund.
Answer: The UK funded Biodiverse Landscapes Fund supports developing countries to fight poverty, protect nature, and tackle climate change in six landscapes, spanning 18 countries. In the Andes Amazon landscape, covering parts of Ecuador and Peru, the £12.3 milli...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReservoirsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Environment Agency’s modelling of the average (a) daily and (b) monthly percentage of (i) usable and (ii) deployable capacity in each of the (A) Lower Lee Group
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) does not model how resilient water company owned supply systems are to drought. It is the responsibility of the water companies to ensure that their systems can deliver secure water supplies for customers whilst ensuring they m...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReadingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Environment Agency’s modelling of average (a) daily and (b) monthly volumetric river flow rates for each gauging station on the Thames from Reading to Kingston f
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) does not model flow at gauging stations using drought event return periods. The modelling of flow under a range of climate scenarios is carried out as part of planning by water companies to assess how resilient their supply sys...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReservoirsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the expected reservoir levels for each Lower Thames reservoir for drought events (a) 1:100 years, (b) 1:200 years and (c) 1:500 years.
Answer: Public water supply reservoirs are the responsibility of the water companies. The Government has not made such estimates; however we are committed to improving water resilience and we are closely monitoring the delivery of their water resources management...
Answered 20 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReadingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of volumetric river flow rates corresponding to the locations of each gauging station on the Thames from Reading to Kingston.
Answer: The Environment Agency operates six river flow gauging stations on the River Thames between Reading and Kingston. These are located at Reading, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines, Walton and Kingston. The recent daily mean flow at these sites on 11 September 20...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with Thames Water on the definition of best value in the context of the Teddington DRA and Water Resource Management plan.
Answer: The Teddington Direct River Abstraction scheme has been selected by Thames Water in its Water Resources Management Plan from one of 2,400 options modelled at a regional level, by Water Resources South East. The options were put through an options appraisa...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Abstraction: TeddingtonDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Teddington Direct River Abstraction project on water quality in its vicinity; and if he will take steps to ensure the adequ
Answer: Teddington Direct River Abstraction (DRA) is a water recycling scheme considered in Thames Water’s draft Water Resources Management Plan 2024 (dWRMP24) and Water Resources South East’s (WRSE) Regional Plan as a supply option for 2030/31. The Environment A...
Answered 20 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWater TreatmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing of mandatory quaternary water treatment of wastewater.
Answer: Defra currently has no plans to introduce and make quaternary treatment mandatory for domestic wastewater treatment. Where it is deemed necessary as an additional wastewater treatment process, costs and benefits will be assessed, and stakeholder consultat...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
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