Found: The UK Government proposes to introduce a DRS with a 15p charge, as outlined in the current Environment Bill

Found: parliamentary term: the Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Right and Environment) Bill

Found: Hornsey introduced the “Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Bill.

Answered by Douglas Alexander - Secretary of State for Scotland

The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched a review into the UK’s approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slavery, and environmental harms in global supply chains.

The review will be a neutral, objective appraisal of policy, led by departmental officials. It will consider the effectiveness of the UK’s current regime and the merits of alternative means of supporting responsible business practices.

Found: Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024v (PDF), p9-10 14 Environment Bill

Found: recommendation of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Report Committee in its report on the Environment Bill

Net Zero APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: bank a net zero mandate; and Use post-2020 UK carbon pricing architecture and forthcoming Environment Bill

Microplastics APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: One of these opportunities was the recent Environment Bill.

Waterways APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: British Canoeing has been asking MPs to lend their support to the amendments to the Environment Bill

Dark Skies APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: · Use of the Environment Bill as a platform to advocate for dark skies · Look

Antimicrobial Resistance APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: recommendations from the UK’s five-year national action plan on AMR (see pp44-48) made it into the Environment Bill

Tidy Britain APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: scheme for England from 2023 (Scotland will have theirs a year earlier in 2022), and once the Environment Bill

Dark Skies APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Environment Agency or the new Office for Environmental Protection which will be established by the Environment Bill

Microplastics APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: looking at parliamentary solutions to the plastics problem, and had been working to influence the Environment Bill

Tidy Britain APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: single use plastic ban to include plastic plates and cutlery, as well as using the powers of the Environment Bill

Animal Welfare APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: farmers in England and replace them with a new system of public money for public goods ●● The Environment Bill

United Nations Global Goals APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: accelerate reforestation and unlock major economic and environmental benefits; • bringing forward an Environment Bill

Found: . • Environment Bill/Act Policy Advisors x 5. • ELM Policy Advisors x 2. • FFCP Policy Engagement and

Found: Similar provisions are to be set out in the Environment Bill, and therefore the intention is that the

Found: , a change in forestry standard and the introduction of the Natural Environment Bill

Found: zero nation by 2045, have proposed a framework for statutory nature targets in the Natural Environment Bill

Found: Wilson provided an update on the progress of the Deer Management Provisions within the Natural Environment Bill

Found: the pre-Cabinet consideration process 3) Briefing on stakeholder responses to the Natural Environment Bill

Found: We have introduced a Natural Environment Bill which will support our ambition to restore biodiversity

Found: Further to this, a new Natural Environment Bill will put in place statutory targets to restore and protect

Found: translocations.An update on SG wildlife management work was also delivered, including on the Natural Environment Bill

Found: Statutory targets for nature will be included in a new Natural Environment Bill which introduced in

Found: • Natural Environment Bill : Proposed legislation including requirements for biodiversity improvement

Found: Strategy and proposals to establish statutory targets for nature restoration through a Natural Environment Bill

Found: the Scottish Government’s deer management proposals which have been included in the Natural Environment Bill

Found: restoration targets which will be set out in SEA for the Environment Strategy 58 the new Natural Environment Bill

Found: • Statutory nature restoration targets, to be set out in the Natural Environment Bill, which will

Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in

Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in

Found: of the Scottish Government’s deer management policies which will be included in the Natural Environment Bill

Found: Workforce and Fair Work It is unlikely that Part 4 of the Natural Environment Bill will impact on Fair

Found: Financial Disclosures will help us inform and learn from international best practice. 9.7 Natural Environment Bill

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how it supports deer management in (a) lowland and (b) semi-rural areas.

Answered by Fairlie, Jim - Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity

Good deer management is about achieving balance, what that looks like in different local areas will vary depending on the immediate environment and the impact deer may be having. That is why we have introduced new purposes for deer management in our Natural Environment Bill. We recognise, however, that we need to use both regulation and incentive to support our deer management aims.

Three pilot incentive schemes led by NatureScot and the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) ran in 2024/25 to financially support deer managers to control numbers of deer in specific parts of Scotland in response to the climate and nature emergencies. Pilot schemes are expected to return in these areas for the 2025/26 season as well as expand to further locales including within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

In addition to this, in the lowlands specifically we are supporting deer management through the Low Ground Venison Supply Chain Project which will explore ways to help low ground deer managers improve the infrastructure for handling and chilling venison carcasses and increase throughput. 13 applicants have been issued grant funding to date.

As set out in our 2025-26 Programme for Government, we are committed to working with stakeholders on “the development of local pilot projects on deer management programmes, including an implementation plan and funding models deer management”.

Found: Ecocide was discussed in the UK Parliament in 2021 in the context of amendments to the UK Environment Bill

Found: These benefits, although broader than direct monetisable figures, 118 Environment Bill Impact Assessment.pdf

Found: bodies, and the design and implementation of biodiversity targets are enacted 91 DEFRA (2019), Environment Bill