Information between 13th February 2024 - 13th April 2024
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Friday 21st June 2024 Sarah Green (Liberal Democrat - Chesham and Amersham) Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber Subject: Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill: Second Reading Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24 View calendar |
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Environment Agency
19 speeches (1,432 words) Thursday 7th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) streams, which, as the Minister knows, are a precious resource. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In addition to reducing the burden of abstraction pressures, the Government are protecting chalk streams - Link to Speech |
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Farming
104 speeches (44,531 words) Monday 4th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Wales Office Mentions: 1: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) sense in putting beavers in large rivers, but there is no sense in reintroducing beavers into small chalk - Link to Speech |
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Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies
35 speeches (18,071 words) Thursday 29th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Lord Stoneham of Droxford (LD - Life peer) streams in my part of Hampshire: the Itchen, the Test and the Meon. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Plan for Water recognises chalk streams as a priority for the Government and identifies action to - Link to Speech |
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Water and Sewage Companies: Directors’ Remuneration
19 speeches (7,319 words) Thursday 22nd February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) , Lord Stansgate, has given some excellent statistics on this.England is home to 85% of the earth’s chalk - Link to Speech |
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Rivers: Sewage
Asked by: Danny Kruger (Conservative - Devizes) Monday 18th March 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of septic tanks on the cleanliness of rivers; and if he will make it his policy to ban septic tanks (a) in the catchment areas of chalk streams and (b) near other watercourses. Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Large numbers of properties in rural areas of England rely on on-site water treatment systems as they are not connected to mains sewerage systems. Septic tanks, the most common on-site sewage treatment systems in these areas, are regulated to ensure they are maintained properly and do not cause pollution. Through our long-term Plan for Water, the Government is committed to delivering a clean water environment for people and nature, including the impact of private sewerage systems on chalk streams. This aligns with our broader commitment to review private sewage discharges regulation to manage environmental risk. |
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Water Abstraction: Licensing
Asked by: Thérèse Coffey (Conservative - Suffolk Coastal) Monday 18th March 2024 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences for abstraction in chalk streams have been rescinded in each year since 2010. Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) A total of 110 licences affecting chalk streams have been revoked since 2010. A further 158 have been varied or reduced.
The abstraction licence changes have returned over 37 billion litres of water per year to chalk catchments and prevented a further 110 billion litres per year being abstracted.
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Mar. 18 2024
Bill 66 2023-24 (as introduced) Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill 2023-24 Bill Found: Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] CONTENTS 1 Creation of a category of protection |
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Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Recovered appeal: land at Cruxton Farm, Cruxton Lane, Cruxton (ref: 3317593 - 3 April 2024) Document: Recovered appeal: land at Cruxton Farm, Cruxton Lane, Cruxton DT2 0EB (ref: 3317593 - 3 April 2024) (PDF) Found: Page 10 characteristics of the LCA includ e a series of broad, undulating valleys with associated chalk |
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Thursday 21st March 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2 (PDF) Found: Recently, water temperature projections for chalk streams have been published (EA, 2022) using the UKCP18 |
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Thursday 21st March 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project (PDF) Found: to meet environmental objectives, i.e., fish passage, flows to meet environmental objectives for chalk |
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Wednesday 6th March 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Buckinghamshire Level 2 devolution framework agreement Document: Buckinghamshire Level 2 devolution framework agreement (PDF) Found: covering over 12 ,000 acres, over 1 ,000 miles of rivers and streams – including internationally rare chalk |
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Mar. 27 2024
Environment Agency Source Page: Revitalising the Hamble Brook Document: Revitalising the Hamble Brook (webpage) News and Communications Found: wetland site, encompassing over 2,500 square metres of new wildlife habitat, thanks to the Chilterns Chalk |
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Mar. 21 2024
Environment Agency Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2 (PDF) Statistics Found: Recently, water temperature projections for chalk streams have been published (EA, 2022) using the UKCP18 |
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Mar. 21 2024
Environment Agency Source Page: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters Document: Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project (PDF) Statistics Found: to meet environmental objectives, i.e., fish passage, flows to meet environmental objectives for chalk |