Zöe Franklin MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61444More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Circular Economy Taskforce on the development of the repair and reuse economy.
Answer: This Government is committed to transitioning towards a circular economy. We have convened the Circular Economy Taskforce to help develop the first ever Circular Economy Strategy for England, which we plan to publish for consultation in the coming autumn....
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordElectrical Goods: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the public’s awareness of electrical goods recycling options; and what steps he plans to take to improve public awareness of those options.
Answer: The Waste Electronics and Electrical Equipment regulations make producers responsible for the electrical products they place on the market when they become waste. Within that framework producers fund a not-for-profit industry body Material Focus through t...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordElectrical Goods and Electronic Equipment: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Department has made of the effectiveness of the household waste electrical and electronic equipment collection scheme.
Answer: The January 2025 Post Implementation Review (PIR) of the WEEE regulations assess a range of measures aimed to drive up the levels of separately collected WEEE for re-use and recycling. We are considering further measures to deliver a Circular Economy, inc...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordElectrical Goods: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to incentivise manufacturers to design electrical products with longer lifespans to support (a) sustainabilit
Answer: This Government is committed to transitioning towards a circular economy. We have convened the Circular Economy Taskforce, composed of experts from industry, academia, and civil society, to help develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England. The Strateg...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAgricultureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee entitled The Government’s vision for far
Answer: The Secretary of State and Minister Zeichner met the Committee recently and had the chance to discuss this Government’s approach to farming policy at that time. The Secretary of State’s oral evidence sessions sets out the Ministerial his assessment.
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPlants: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 1991 Act of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Convention (UPOV 91) on small farmin
Answer: The UK is a contracting party of the 1991 convention of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, known as UPOV. Under UPOV 1991, the UK has an effective plant variety protection system in place providing intellectual property...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAgricultural Products: Overseas TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support farmers to trade with other countries.
Answer: The Government is focused on supporting trade opportunities for the UK’s world class agri-food sector. We are working hard to secure new agreements, including an SPS agreement with the EU, and to resolve export barriers. Our network of 16 agri-food attach...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle unlawful discharges of sewage by water companies into waterways in Surrey.
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged record levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. That is why we are placing water companies under special measures through the Water (Special Measures) Bill, which will strengthen regulation, including...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
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