Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect small bird keepers in relation to avian flu regulations.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Steps being taken by the Government to protect small bird keepers from disproportionate impacts of avian influenza regulations, include:

• Psittacines (including parrots and budgerigars) and passerines (including canaries and finches) which are fully housed in a dwelling or in specialist bird houses with no access to the open air are exempt from the requirement to register with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
• For the first time in 2025/26, housing measures in England and Wales were not mandatory for keepers with fewer than 50 birds who do not sell or give away eggs, poultry products or live birds.
• The mandatory biosecurity measures that are introduced through an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone are tiered to ensure that the measures are proportionate. The threshold for the most stringent of these measures is keeping 500 birds.

To support small bird keepers in achieving good biosecurity, APHA circulates advice and guidance targeted at small keepers, through email and social media, including a weekly biosecurity tip.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government will be represented at the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels.

Answered by Katie White - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what rights individuals have to be informed if they (a) are and (b) have been the target of a terrorist organisation; and under what circumstances her Department discloses intelligence relating to such threats.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

The Government takes the safety and security of individuals in the United Kingdom very seriously.

There is no general or statutory right for individuals to be informed that they are, or have been, the target of a terrorist organisation. Decisions on whether to provide information or advice are made on a case-by-case basis, informed by the nature of the threat and operational considerations.

Where appropriate, and where it is assessed that an individual may be at heightened risk, the police and other relevant authorities may provide protective security advice and other support.

We must balance the protection of individuals with the need to safeguard sensitive intelligence and ongoing operations.

VAT for UK hospitality

Orgreave Inquiry

Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations

75th anniversary of the Easington Pit Disaster

Liushenyu mining disaster and workers’ safety

Found: Tydfil and Aberdare) Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru; Ceredigion Preseli) Llinos Medi (Plaid Cymru; Ynys Môn) Andrew Ranger

Found: representations: Paulette Hamilton: Potential merits of increasing police presence on high streets Andrew Ranger

Found: Q4 Andrew Ranger: That is really interesting.

Found: • Jerome Mayhew MP (Broadland and Fakenham) (Con) • Edward Morello MP (West Dorset) (LD) • Andrew Ranger

Submit Evidence (by 15 Jun 2026)

Policing in Wales is reserved to the UK Government, with the Home Office bearing responsibility for publishing the most pressing national crime threats and how police forces ought to respond to them (the Strategic Policing Requirement), presenting the Annual Police Grant Report to Parliament for approval, and holding Police and Crime Commissioners accountable.

Submit Evidence (by 19 Jun 2026)

Once a major industry in Wales, mines extracting metals like zinc, lead and gold are now largely abandoned. But metals from these mines can discharge into local rivers, streams and lakes, damaging local plant and animal biodiversity and possibly impacting human health.