Wendy Morton MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Employers' Contributions and Minimum WageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) retailers and (b) hospitality with the potential impact of changes to (i) National Insurance Contributions and (ii) National Minimum
Answer: ONS data for May 2025 shows CPI food price inflation was 4.4%, up from 3.4% in April 2025. This is due to range of factors, including the strength in some commodity prices, this year’s exceptionally dry spring and geopolitical concerns etc. We have protec...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFood Supply: CostsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support (a) food producers and (b) suppliers facing rising input costs.
Answer: Annual variations in farm input costs are driven by global markets. UK fertiliser farm gate prices are tied to movements in the international market, and UK fertiliser suppliers compete for market share providing the best price they can for farmers. In th...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: PricesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with food retailers on the prices of (a) staple food items, (b) cereal, (c) milk, (d) butter and (e) beef.
Answer: Ministers and Defra officials regularly engage with food retailers and producers on a wide range of food supply issues, including affordability and access to staple items such as cereal, milk, butter, and beef. These discussions form part of our ongoing e...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Falkland IslandsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to provide multi-year environmental funding for the Falkland Islands.
Answer: Defra primarily supports the UK Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands, in protecting their unique biodiversity and natural environments through the Darwin Plus programme. Over the past five years, Darwin Plus has awarded funding to 28 proje...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure compliance with the waste carriers, brokers and dealers registration regime.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) adopts a risk-based approach to monitoring compliance by conducting targeted audits and roadside checks with partners and identifying and auditing high-risk brokers. The EA uses a range of proportionate actions to secure compli...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles were seized in relation to waste crime offences in each of the last three years.
Answer: Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and enforcement actions, including vehicles seized, to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. We are conducting a re...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: MonitoringDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to launch the digital waste tracking service; and what steps are being taken to ensure industry readiness.
Answer: Defra plans to launch the digital waste tracking service from April 2026. Industry working groups are beginning next month and increased engagement is planned through webinars, information published on GitHub (an online platform where information and soft...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint Unit for Waste Crime: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated by his Department to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime in the 2025-26 financial year; and whether he plans to allocate additional funding to support re
Answer: In 2025/26 the Government is providing £12 million to the Environment Agency (EA) to tackle waste crime. It is for the EA to decide how much of this is directed to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC), but in the current year it is funding 18 posts, an i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the annual profits generated by organised criminals who engage in waste crime.
Answer: It is estimated that waste crime costs the UK economy around £1 billion per year. However, it is impossible to assess how much of this is “profit” for organised criminals.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase coordination between (a) the Environment Agency, (b) local authorities and (c) police forces to tackle organised waste crime.
Answer: The Joint Unit for Waste Crime, hosted by the Environment Agency, is a multi-agency taskforce established specifically to share intelligence and operational capability and capacity to tackle serious and organised criminality in the waste sector. When appr...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to allocate funding to enable (a) local police forces and (b) community groups to use (i) ANPR cameras, (ii) roadside CCTV and (iii) drones to (A) investig
Answer: The Government has no plans to allocate funding to enable local police forces and community groups to use ANPR cameras, roadside CCTV and drones to investigate and deter fly-tipping. Fly-tipping is a blight on our communities and countryside with local au...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising fixed-penalty notice levels for fly-tipping above the £1,000 maximum; and whether he has made an assessment of the potent
Answer: The Government no longer publishes a league table of local authority fly-tipping performance. Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and actions to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/sta...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when statutory fly-tipping enforcement guidance for local authorities will be published; and what his planned timeline is for its implementation.
Answer: The Government is seeking powers in the Crime and Policing Bill to provide statutory fly-tipping enforcement guidance. Following Royal Assent, we will carry out a consultation with relevant stakeholders including local authorities. Once the consultation h...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Private PropertyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that landowners are not held financially responsible for clearing fly-tipped waste from their private land.
Answer: We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. Local authorities are responsible for tackling fly-tipping in their areas. We want to see an effective enforcement strategy at the centre of their efforts to tackle the problem, ...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 28 April 2025 to Question 47228, what his plans for the future of the Sustainable Farming Incentive are following the Spending Review.
Answer: Our new Sustainable Farming Incentive offer will be more targeted to better meet priorities on food, farming and nature. More details on the offer will be available later in the summer.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: FinesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of penalties for fly-tipping in deterring repeat offences.
Answer: This Government has not made an assessment of the effectiveness of penalties for fly-tipping in deterring repeat offences. We have committed to forcing fly-tippers to clean up the mess they have created. This will build on the sanctions already available ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: West MidlandsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in tackling fly-tipping in the West Midlands.
Answer: Fly-tipping is a serious crime which blights local communities and the environment. Local authorities have a range of enforcement powers to help them tackle fly-tipping including fixed penalty notices of up to £1000, seizing and crushing of vehicles and p...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFalkland Islands: Nature ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support the Falkland Islands government to preserve its (a) marine biodiversity, (b) sustainable fishing practices and (c) other aspects of
Answer: Defra officials work closely with the Falkland Islands Government to ensure that Falkland Island interests are represented in international fisheries meetings at the UN and FAO, and that challenges in ensuring sustainable management of high seas fisheries...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing a local authority league table for incidences of fly-tipping.
Answer: This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a local authority league table for incidences of fly-tipping. Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and actions to Defra, which are publis...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 47228 on Sustainable Farming Incentive, whether the (a) launch and (b) rollout of the replacement Sustainable Farming Incentive sche
Answer: We will provide further details about the reformed Sustainable Farming Incentive in summer 2025.
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers enrolled in the SFI scheme to transition to the forthcoming replacement programme.
Answer: We will provide further details about the reformed Sustainable Farming Incentive in summer 2025.
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Construction and DemolitionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle commercial fly-tipping involving construction and demolition waste.
Answer: This Government recently announced plans to move the regulation of waste carriers, brokers and dealers from a light-touch registration system into environmental permitting. This will mean that people who transport or control more than a certain volume of ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy is on entering the premises of (a) animal shelters and (b) rescue homes to assess (ii) animal welfare and (ii) conditions.
Answer: Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, local authorities and the police have powers to investigate allegations of animal cruelty or poor welfare, including powers of entry to premises such as animal shelters and rescue homes. Section 18 of the Act allows anim...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of a (a) national debate and (b) action plan on fly-tipping.
Answer: This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of a national debate or action plan on fly-tipping. We are committed to forcing fly-tippers to clean up the mess that they have created as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour. We ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping and LitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a litter and fly-tipping champion in Government.
Answer: This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a litter and fly-tipping champion in Government. Local authorities are usually best placed to respond to litter and fly-tipping problems in a way tailored to the communities...
Answered 12 May 2025
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