Tessa Munt MP: written questions
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Aluminium: ImportsTreasuryTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116466More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many metric tonnes of processed aluminium were imported into the UK in each of last recorded five years; from which countries and in what quantities that processed aluminium was imported; and what information he
Answer: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as an Accredited National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods St...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAluminium: RecyclingTreasuryTabled 27 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116465More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many metric tonnes of aluminium were exported from the UK for recycling in each of the last five years; to which countries was that aluminium exported; in what quantities was it exported; and how much income to
Answer: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as an Accredited National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods ...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 111664, how many exporters or brokers who have failed to provide the required post-shipment Annex VII information have been
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) is yet to suspend or issue a prohibition (stop) notice on any exporters or brokers who have failed to provide post shipment information. It has issued 14 warnings on exporters who have failed to provide the required information...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 12 February to Question 111664, how many individual receiving sites that have failed to supply the post-shipment Annex VII information required have bee
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) is yet to remove sites from its acknowledged list to prevent them from receiving future consignments. At this point there is no evidence to show that any receiving sites are deliberately not supplying the information needed to ...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 111664, how many individual receiving sites have failed to supply the required post-shipment Annex VII information.
Answer: Of the 50 approved receiving sites, the Environment Agency (EA) has post shipment information outstanding beyond the eight-week deadline from 16 sites. Exporters have informed the EA that shipments are not arriving at the intended destination within eight...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 111664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2026 to Question 109797, how many of the 3, 442 documents for which an Annex VII was submitted between 28 October 2025 and 2 February 2026 (a
Answer: Of the 3442 annex VII documents referenced (now revised to 3281 following further data assurance) 1,891 have reached the eight-week deadline. Annex VII forms submitted after the 15 December 2025 are not yet due. Of these 1891, 1,370 have not been returned...
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 111663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to her answer to Question 106499 of 22 January 2026, how many of the 1,891 consignments for which an Annex VII was submitted (a) have passed the eight-week deadline and (b) are
Answer: Of the 1,891 pre-shipment Annex VII forms referenced, 1,370 were not returned with the arrival information within the eight-week deadline. Exporters have reported delays arising from customs processes, onward collection from ports and transport issues fol...
Answered 12 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordAluminium: RecyclingDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is his Department's policy on the recycling of aluminium in the UK.
Answer: The UK 2024 Criticality Assessment, commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade, recognises aluminium as a critical mineral essential to the UK’s green energy transition.The Government recognises the importance of scrap metals, including alumini...
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordMinerals: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on which countries critical mineral waste and scrap are exported under licence for recycling.
Answer: Defra does not maintain a list of businesses that export waste from the UK. Any exporter that is not the original waste producer must be registered as a waste broker or dealer. Details of registered brokers and dealers in England can be found on the publi...
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordMinerals: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of companies that have a licence to export critical mineral waste and scrap for recycling abroad.
Answer: Defra does not maintain a list of businesses that export waste from the UK. Any exporter that is not the original waste producer must be registered as a waste broker or dealer. Details of registered brokers and dealers in England can be found on the publi...
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to remove end-of-life tyres from the green list waste category under the Waste Shipment Regulations.
Answer: The export of waste tyres is subject to controls set out in existing UK legislation. The Environment Agency (EA) has recently completed a review into its approach for regulating the export of waste tyres. As a result of this, the EA has launched enhanced ...
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to extend the enhanced verification procedure for the export of end-of-life tyres beyond April 2026.
Answer: The Environment Agency will publish further information on the enhanced verification checks in Spring 2026.
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2026 to Question 106499 on Tyres: Waste Disposal, how many of the 1,891 applications for an Annex VII document originated from exporters or busines
Answer: Of the 1,891 Annex VII documents received by the Environment Agency regarding the export of waste tyres between 28 October and 15 December 2025, 605 are from sites that have a T8 exemption.
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2026 to Question 106499 on Tyres: Waste Disposal, how many Annex VII documents were submitted late for which the latest data is available.
Answer: The Environment Agency has received a total of 3,442 annex VII documents between 28 October to 2 February 2026 relating to the movement of waste tyres from England. 241 of these were considered late as they were received less than the required 3 days befo...
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to the Government’s announcement in July 2025 of the decision to remove the T8 waste tyre exemption, if she will clarify the process involved in achieving that, confirm the tim
Answer: Removal of the T8 waste exemption for mechanically treating end-of-life tyres is part of a package of reforms to the waste exemption regime. These reforms encompass the removal of two other exemptions, substantial amendments to seven exemptions and the in...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what enforcement action the Environment Agency plans to take against brokers who fail to submit geo-tagged photographic evidence demonstrating that consignments arrived at their intend
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) takes appropriate action to bring businesses within the waste sector back into compliance and to prevent and disrupt criminal activity. This includes providing advice and guidance for businesses trying to do the right thing, is...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the consignments of end-of-life tyres submitted to the Environment Agency's enhanced verification procedure for Annex VII documents between 1st October 2025 and 15th Decemb
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) received two “change of destination” requests for shipments within the enhanced verification process. One request was submitted while the shipment was already at sea, and the other before it left the UK. Both were sent by email...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the consignments of end-of-life tyres submitted to the Environment Agency's enhanced verification procedure for Annex VII documents between 1st October 2025 and 15th Decemb
Answer: The Environment Agency has received 79 completed annex VII documents since 28 December 2025 with attached geotagged photographs. Any photos submitted without the required geotagging are considered non-compliant and further action is taken.
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the consignments of end-of-life tyres submitted to the Environment Agency's enhanced verification procedure for Annex VII documents between 1st October 2025 and 15th Decemb
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 44 Information Notices, and in return received 1,891 Annex VII documents relating to outward shipments from the UK since 28 October 2025 when the new procedures were introduced. The EA’s enhanced verification procedu...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63305 on Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants, on what dates they held the meetings with the Patient Safety Commissioner to discuss the reco
Answer: Since the publication of the Hughes Report on 7 February 2024, ministers and Departmental officials have met with the Patient Safety Commissioner on several occasions to discuss the recommendations of the Hughes report.
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability Assessment: Autism and Learning DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67873More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism for work capability assessors.
Answer: Since 09 September 2024, the educational material for all Health Assessment Advisory Service (HAAS) Health Professionals (HPs) has been provided by DWP. In reviewing the material ahead of that date, we considered practice in the NHS, and have now implemen...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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