Tessa Munt MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the potential merits of adopting an Australian-style shred-only export mandate to i) permanently eliminate non-compliance at foreign receivin
Answer: Defra is aware of Australia's shred-only policy for exports of waste tyres, and officials have met with stakeholders, including from Australia, to better understand the rationale for the policy, its implementation, and the impacts reported to date. The De...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWaste: ExportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will reinstate the insistence on digital Annex VII prior to shipment and the insistence on geo-tagged location evidence of individual container shipments reaching the
Answer: The Environment Agency's (EA) enhanced compliance checks found no evidence of widespread diversion to illegal pyrolysis. As a result, it does not currently require digital Annex VII documentation or geo-tagged proof of arrival for every shipment. The EA r...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her timetable is for laying statutory instruments to withdraw the T8 waste exemption for end-of-life tyres announced in August 2025; and what steps her Department is taking to sup
Answer: Defra is finalising the drafting of the legislation to withdraw the T8 waste exemption for end-of-life tyres, and it will be laid in parliament when parliamentary time allows.Regarding domestic reprocessing, there are a range of options for recycling tyre...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency’s 13 August 2026 progress update of waste pneumatic tyres and their export, how many (a) prohibition notices have been served on brokers export
Answer: (a) The Environment Agency (EA) has served 50 prohibition notices on exporters of waste tyres from England. (b) The EA has restricted exports to 31 destination facilities where exporters were unable to provide satisfactory return-tracking evidence, includ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Environment Agency changed the evidence threshold for geo-tagged photographic proof of arrival under the enhanced Annex VII verification procedure for waste tyre ex
Answer: The Environment Agency's (EA) enhanced verification checks, which required evidence to demonstrate that waste had been correctly received overseas, examined more than 10,000 waste tyre shipments between October 2025 and July 2026 and found no evidence of ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
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4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.
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| Department or topic | Published records |
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| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 5 |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 3 |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 1 |
| Ministry of Justice | 3 |
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