Steve Barclay MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Department of Health and Social Care: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
Answer: The Department only holds data on the number of officials working in the Department at the end of each calendar month. The following table shows the data for the end of each calendar month from July 2022 to October 2024:MonthHeadcountFull-time equivalentJ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to Inheritance Tax announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of production of the five key crops by tonnage in the
Answer: The level of crop production is always subject to factors such as weather conditions and prevailing prices. Beyond such normal factors, the Government does not expect the inheritance tax changes to have a material impact on crop production. We have robust...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: OwnershipDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the proportion of farm holdings that are owned by a single person or entity.
Answer: In 2021, the statistical estimates for the proportion of farmers in England who have financial and legal responsibility for an agricultural holding is shown below: Financial and legal responsibility for a holdingProportion of holdingsOne person46%Two or m...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: ValuationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of farm holdings that are estimated to have a net value of (a) between £1,000,000 and £1,499,999, (b) between £1,500,000 and £1,999,
Answer: Defra does not hold financial data for farms at holding level. Some financial information is published at a farm business level (where multiple farm holdings can constitute a single farm business). This information is based on the Farm Business Survey whi...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is the cost of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme; and when she plans to make a decision on the renewal of that scheme.
Answer: The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme providing grants towards Vat paid on reports and maintenance is a demand-led programme and operates with a total budget of up to £42m per year, funded jointly by DCMS and HMT reserve. In the financial year 23/24 a...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12076More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data HM Revenue and Customs holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland.
Answer: HMRC receives information in relation to the agricultural value of agricultural land, buildings, and other assets as part of claims for agricultural property relief. This information relates to the agricultural property owned by the individual who may not...
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordInheritance Tax: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12075More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 118 of Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, and page 32 of the Budget Policy Costings document, if she will publish the (a) methodology and (b) data sources on how the revenue from the (i) agricultural
Answer: The Government has published information about reforms to agricultural property relief at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-are-the-changes-to-agricultural-property-relief. Almost three-quarters of estates claiming agricultural property relief (or ...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: LandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland at a (A) hereditament and (B) local authority level.
Answer: The Defra June Survey of Agriculture has statistical estimates of the English farmland areas at local authority level, the latest available is for 2021. Please note this survey only covers commercial holdings (defined as farms with more than five hectares...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: LandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data the Rural Payments Agency holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland at a (A) hereditament and (B) local authority level.
Answer: The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) does not hold data at hereditament level, or any data on values of farms or farmland. It does hold data on areas of land for businesses registered with the RPA and associated agricultural land, i.e. land registered as Arabl...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the mix of waste sent for incineration since 2017 on the carbon emissions of each unit of electricity generated by inc
Answer: Defra made no assessment of the effect of changes in the mix of waste sent for incineration on the carbon emissions of each unit of electricity generated by energy recovery facilities when the Rt Hon member for North East Cambridgeshire was Secretary of S...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWaste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will list identified abandoned waste sites.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordRecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the UK’s waste will be recycled in each of the next five years.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to reduce the amount of waste sent for incineration; and what estimate he has made of the amount of waste expected to be incinerated in each of the next fiv
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of existing UK waste incineration capacity in the next (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 20 years.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the statutory target to halve residual waste on demand for UK waste incineration capacity.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordWaste ManagementDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many abandoned waste sites there are; and if he will publish a list of such sites.
Answer: As of July 2024, the Environment Agency confirmed 35 abandoned waste sites in England. An abandoned site occurs if the waste management permit holder dies, or the company is wound up. Information on these sites was not published when he was Secretary of S...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of waste that will be recycled in each of the next five years.
Answer: In 2022, the Waste from Households recycling rate in England was 43.4%. Figures for 2023/24 are provisionally scheduled for publication by January 2025. We have a long-term target to halve residual waste by 2042 and we are committed to achieving a municip...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8440More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to reduce the amount of waste sent for incineration; and what estimate he has made of the volume of waste that will be incinerated in each of the next fiv
Answer: Our current use of resources has been set on a trajectory that is economically, environmentally and socially unsustainable. This Government will be creating a roadmap to correct course towards a circular economy, supporting sustainable economic growth by ...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of waste incineration capacity over the next (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 20 years assuming all statutory environmental targets are met.
Answer: Our current use of resources has been set on a trajectory that is economically, environmentally and socially unsustainable. This Government will be creating a roadmap to correct course towards a circular economy, supporting sustainable economic growth by ...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8438More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the statutory target to halve residual waste on demand for waste incineration capacity.
Answer: Our current use of resources has been set on a trajectory that is economically, environmentally and socially unsustainable. This Government will be creating a roadmap to correct course towards a circular economy, supporting sustainable economic growth by ...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency regulatory policy statement entitled Using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction activities: RPS 247, published on 25
Answer: Regulatory position statement RPS 247, first published in January 2021, sets out risk-based conditions which restrict the use of unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) as a replacement for primary aggregate based on tonnage, location, placement, ...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the use of unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate in construction on the environment in (a) the Fenlands and (b) other low-lyin
Answer: In England the Environment Agency’s regulatory position statement RPS 247 , first published in January 2021, sets out risk-based conditions which restrict the use of unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) as a replacement for primary aggregate ba...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for the expanded Farming Recovery Fund announced on 24 May 2024 (a) has been paid out as of 5 September 2024 and (b) is projected
Answer: All eligible farmers that were identified in the original fund from April 2024 have been offered payment. This represents 679 farmers who were paid a total of £2.19 million.
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers who are eligible for support under the expanded Farming Recovery Fund announced on 24 May 2024 have been (a) (i) identified and (ii) contacted by the Rural Payments Ag
Answer: All eligible farmers that were identified in the original fund from April 2024 have been offered payment. This represents 679 farmers who were paid a total of £2.19 million.
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timescale is for making payments under the Farming Recovery Fund to eligible applicants.
Answer: To date all eligible farmers identified in the original Farming Recovery Fund announced in April 2024 have been offered the payment in line with the published criteria. In May, Defra announced a further expansion to the fund and further information on tha...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
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