Apr. 24 2024
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Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) to move,That the Committee has considered the draft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Only a few weeks ago, we discussed the Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) , I note that the instrument specifies that offences for breach of the regulations in the Sea Fish (Conservation - Speech Link
2: None We have seen bodies such as the Devon & Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, in England - Speech Link
3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) We know that there will be an expansion of renewables, but there are also conservation objectives. - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands CommitteeFound: as Walrus are already protected under Part 6 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 which relates to the conservation
Asked by: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies prohibits fuel subsidies for fleets and vessels catching depleted fish stocks in UK waters.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies prohibits specific subsidies, including specific fuel subsidies, for fishing or fishing related activities regarding an overfished stock. The UK does not provide specific fuel subsidies to the UK fishing fleet.
Asked by: George Eustice (Conservative - Camborne and Redruth)
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 adequacy of the conservation status of the swift.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The UK swift population is estimated at 59,000 pairs (2016) Swift population trends are monitored annually by the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), which recorded a decline of 62% between 1995 and 2021, and of 40% between 2011 and 2021. Due to the declines recorded by BBS, swifts were added to the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern in the UK in 2021 and are considered ‘Endangered’ at GB level.
Natural England is currently undertaking a review of the conservation interventions needed to support the recovery of over 100 of our most threatened bird species, including the swift.
Asked by: Kim Leadbeater (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his expected timetable is for publishing his Department's roadmap on household water efficiency.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
We published our ‘Roadmap on water efficiency in new developments and retrofits’ in the Environmental Improvement Plan in 2023. This sets out 10 actions to achieve our statutory target to reduce water demand by 20% by 2038. Within this we committed to implementing a Mandatory Water Efficiency label by 2025, to enable consumers to identify water efficient products. In October 2023, the Government publicly committed to a spring consultation to fulfil the roadmap action to Review the Building Regulations 2010, and the water efficiency, water recycling and drainage standards (regulation 36 and Part G2, H1, H2, H3 of Schedule 1), considering industry competence and skills.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Intergovernmental Relations Annual Report 2023Found: implement the Global Biodiversity Framework to achieve the COP15 outcomes and agreed that the Joint Nature Conservation