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Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours the Automatic Licence Verification System at the Sevington Border Control Point has been out of operation for since 30 April 2024.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
A power outage at a privately owned data centre that Defra uses affected several Defra digital services last weekend. One of the services impacted was the Automatic Licence Verification System, which is used to validate and exchange information with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
This service was not available between 07:46 11 May and 20:50 14 May. This amounts to 85 hours and 4 minutes. Business Continuity Plans were implemented as soon as the disruption to the service was identified.
There have been no significant delays to border checks and we continue to protect our high standards of biosecurity in the UK through effective monitoring across all imports.
We have contingency arrangements in place for clearance of affected vehicles and consignments at the border, working alongside HMRC and Border Force.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to help tackle waste crime in rural areas.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government is committed to tackling waste crime, and we are preparing significant reforms to continue to increase the pressure on illegal waste operators. Reform of the waste exemptions regime will close loopholes and prevent exemptions from being misused to permit risky and illegal activity. Our planned electronic waste tracking reforms will make it harder than ever to mis-identify waste or dispose of it inappropriately. Planned changes to the Carriers, Brokers and Dealers licensing regime will modernise licensing and make it harder still for rogue operators to escape detection. These will come in addition to measures in the Environment Act 2021 which gives agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crime as well as providing the Environment Agency with the ability to recover costs of investigation, intervention and enforcement at illegal or non-compliant waste sites.
The Government also launched the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC). It brings together the Environment Agency, HM Revenue & Customs, the National Crime Agency, the police, waste regulators from across the UK and other operational partners to share intelligence and tasking to disrupt and prevent serious organised waste crime. Since its launch the JUWC has worked with 131 partner organisations and engaged in 253 multi-agency days of action, which have resulted in 180 associated arrests by other agencies.
Alongside this we are working with stakeholders, such as the National Farmers Union and local authorities, to share good practice including how to prevent fly-tipping on private land. We are also currently funding a post within the National Rural Crime Unit to explore how the police’s role in tacking fly-tipping can be optimised, with a focus on rural areas.
Across three rounds of our fly-tipping grant scheme we have now awarded nearly £2.2 million to help more than 50 councils tackle fly-tipping at known hot-spots, including in rural areas, such as by installing CCTV and raising awareness of the household waste duty of care. Case studies from completed projects have been published so that others can learn from successful interventions.
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0047 - Food, Diet and Obesity Recipe for Change Campaign Written Evidence
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0041 - Food, Diet and Obesity Sustain Alliance for Better Food and Farming Written Evidence
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024Found: “PAYE” means HM Revenue and Customs’ Pay As You Earn system for collecting Income Tax and National
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Source Page: Compliance checks: Corresponding with HMRC electronically — CC/FS83Found: From: HM Revenue & Customs Published 22 May 2024 Get emails about this page Documents
May. 22 2024
Source Page: The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2024Found: The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2024
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Forensic Information Databases annual report 2022 to 2023Found: , and reducing violence against women and girls.
Report May. 22 2024
Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)Found: policy of HM Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs and associated public bodies.