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HANSARDDraft Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022I am delighted to answer them. The new inspection arrangements are very much based on international standards for categorising commodities according to risk, which goes some way…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEnvironment, Food and Rural AffairsOn the seafood fund, much of the inshore fleet can receive 80% grant funding if it does not use towed gear. [Official Report, 14 June 2022, Vol. 716, c. 63WH.] Letter of…04 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I would be delighted to give way to the right hon. Gentleman.04 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr…04 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022The amendments relate to existing EU regulation, which has been in force for some time, and to animal welfare in transport regulations that are already enforced. I do not see any…04 Jul 2022HANSARDDraft Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022It is always delightful to see the hon. Gentleman. Clearly I have not been engaged in enough statutory instrument debates with him, and I look forward to many more. It has been…04 Jul 2022HANSARDEnvironment, Food and Rural AffairsOn the fisheries and seafood scheme , much of the inshore fleet can receive 80% grant funding if it does not use towed gear.04 Jul 2022HANSARDFlooding: Irwell Vale and Surrounding AreasIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship once again, Ms McVey. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Jake Berry) for securing this…29 Jun 2022HANSARDFlooding: Irwell Vale and Surrounding AreasThe Environment Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton Deane, would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend. I know that the Radcliffe and Redvales scheme has been useful in…29 Jun 2022HANSARDFlooding: Irwell Vale and Surrounding AreasI would be delighted to undertake that. I met with the EA team earlier today, and one of my questions was whether part of the scheme could be delivered while we continue to work…29 Jun 2022HANSARDFlooding: Irwell Vale and Surrounding AreasMy hon. Friend makes some important points. It is always good to have conversations and debates on flooding with a group of interested colleagues, so that decisions can be made in…29 Jun 2022HANSARDBottom Trawling: Marine Protected AreasIt is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. It is also a great pleasure to be here with my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDead Crustaceans (North-East Coast)It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I, too, thank the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) for securing this important debate. I…28 Jun 2022HANSARDBottom Trawling: Marine Protected AreasThe hon. Gentleman touches on a very important point, and I will be coming to supertrawlers later. As ever, we have to find the balance between actions that we know are not great…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDead Crustaceans (North-East Coast)I am just moving on to dredging on the Tees. Dredging has been taking place for many years. It is essential to maintain navigational safety and access to ports and other…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDead Crustaceans (North-East Coast)Yes. The point I was making is that we have shared all these findings; they are not in any way being kept secret. I completely accept why the local community is very distressed;…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDead Crustaceans (North-East Coast)I would be delighted to share with the hon. Gentleman the information that we have already shared with the scientists not related to the Government who are involved in the work.…28 Jun 2022HANSARDDead Crustaceans (North-East Coast)I reassure the hon. Gentleman that I am being kept informed weekly by my hon. Friends the Members for Hartlepool and for Redcar, and by my own officials, who are monitoring the…28 Jun 2022HANSARDFood SecurityWe have worked very closely with FareShare, an organisation that I have the utmost respect for, during the last couple of years in particular. Tackling poverty in all forms is a…23 Jun 2022HANSARDFood SecurityAs we have recently heard, we have a high degree of food security in the UK. We produce 74% of the food that we can grow here and we have robust supply chains for the rest. Our…23 Jun 2022