Steve Barclay MP: written questions
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Written questions
RecyclingDepartment 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
Original Parliament recordGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for (a) bringing forward and (b) implementing secondary legislation relating to the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023; and whether he has a
Answer: Innovation is important in strengthening food security, enhancing resilience and improving agricultural sustainability. We are considering how to take forward the regulatory framework outlined in the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act and will sh...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: DirectorsCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1491More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the contract of employment for non-executive directors has been fully complied with since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster appoints Non-Executive Board Members to the Cabinet Office Board and most Non-Executive Directors to the Boards of its Arm’s Length Bodies in compliance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. Non-Executiv...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: DirectorsCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1490More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many non-executive directors have had their contract of employment terminated since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster appoints Non-Executive Board Members to the Cabinet Office Board and most Non-Executive Directors to the Boards of its Arm’s Length Bodies in compliance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. Non-Executiv...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce a legally binding food security target.
Answer: Food security is national security. A resilient and healthy food system, that works with nature and supports British farmers is a key element of our national food security. That is why this Government will introduce a new deal for farmers to boost rural e...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Food SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to continue the annual farm to fork summit.
Answer: Confidence among farmers is at an all time low. We need a resilient and healthy food system, that works with nature and supports British Farmers. The only way to do this effectively is to listen to farmers and others with a stake in our food system, count...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordFarmers: Government AssistanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase support for farmers to mitigate the impacts of crops (a) lost and (b) not planted due to wet weather.
Answer: The Farming Recovery Fund is a contribution towards uninsured costs that have likely been incurred in re-establishing productive, farmable land in areas significantly damaged by water, caused by flooding from Storms Babet and Henk or exceptional rainfall ...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordBadgers: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has commissioned an impact assessment on the proposed ending of the badger cull.
Answer: I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the reply I gave to PQ 1263.
Answered 12 Aug 2024
Original Parliament recordBovine Tuberculosis: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what date he expects to have ceased badger culling.
Answer: This government will respect the advice of the widest range of expert advisers when considering the end of the badger cull. There has not been a major bovine TB strategy review in nearly six years. The last was commissioned by the then Secretary of State ...
Answered 12 Aug 2024
Original Parliament recordFood: ProcurementDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatability of mandating a minimum quota of domestic products in public procurement contracts for food with Britain's membership of the World Trade
Answer: The Government has ambition to source half of all food served in public sector settings from local producers or that has been produced by growers certified to higher environmental standards, where possible. We want to use the purchasing power of the publi...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1261More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, to provide a breakdown by (a) department and (b) job title of senior civil service jobs (i) offered and (ii) appointed since 30 May 2024.
Answer: The information held by the Cabinet Office relating to the Senior Civil Service shows there have been 43 offers made and 41 candidates posted/taken up duty since 30th May 2024. Recruitment data from some departments is collected on a biannual basis by the...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1260More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy was on external by default for recruitment to senior civil service roles by (a) department and (b) organisation on (i) 30 May 2024 and (ii) 23 July 2024.
Answer: The Civil Service advertises all SCS vacancies on the principle of External by Default. External by Default means that vacancies will be open to external candidates outside the Civil Service, as well as existing civil servants, unless an exception applies...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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