In the Lords

Under Part III of the Clean Air Act 1993 (CAA), it is an offence to emit smoke from a chimney of a building in a Smoke Control Area (SCA) un

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The information requested is not held by Defra. Such information may however be held by local authorities for their individual areas.

The Government recognises the importance of making drinking water more readily available in public places, as a means of reducing single-use

The Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy for England, published in December 2018, sets out our plans to reduce, reuse and recycle more

Defra publishes annual fly-tipping statistics for England, which show that incidents of fly-tipping have gradually increased over the last f

Leaving the EU does not change the UK’s ambition on the environment; the Government has no intention of weakening our current environmental

My Lords, as set out in our manifesto, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards in our

The UK, as the noble Lord points out, has world-leading environmental and animal welfare standards, and that will not change.

I thank my noble friend for her question.