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House of Commons Official Report Thursday Volume 679 10 September 2020 No. 98 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 10 September 2020 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2020 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 751 10 SEPTEMBER 2020 752 House of Commons Deforestation Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe) (Con): What steps he is Thursday 10 September 2020 taking to prevent deforestation. [905805] TheParliamentaryUnder-Secretaryof StateforEnvironment, The House met at half-past Nine o’clock Food and Rural Affairs (Rebecca Pow): Recognising that commoditysupplychainsareamajordriverof deforestation, the Government established the global resource initiative PRAYERS taskforce. Following the taskforce’s recommendations, we are currently consulting on proposals for a new world-leading due diligence law and working to forge an [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] international alliance on supply chains at COP26. UK Virtual participation in proceedings commenced (Order, international climate finance is also used to protect the 4 June). world’smost biodiverse forests,with £5.8 billion committed [NB: [V] denotes a Member participating virtually.] between 2016 and 2021. Ruth Edwards: I thank my hon. Friend for her answer, and I welcome the Government’s consultation in this Oral Answers to Questions area. May I urge her to make our landmark Environment Bill even more world-leading by including legislative measures on due diligence? ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS Rebecca Pow: I thank my hon. Friend for being on the ball about the Environment Bill in particular, which will be back before the House very soon and will deliver The Secretary of State was asked— the Government’s manifesto commitment to deliver the Chalk Streams most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth. We understand the eagerness about measures James Wild (North West Norfolk) (Con): What steps in relation to due diligence, but we do not want to his Department is taking to (a) protect and (b) enhance anticipate the outcome of the consultation. Any decisions chalk streams. [905804] on the next steps on these measures will be confirmed in the Government’s formal response to the consultation, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for which will be published after the consultation closes on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Rebecca Pow): We 5 October, but we are very positive about it. are already working with our partners to take action to protect and enhance chalk streams, which are precious Food Production Standards habitats. That includes reforming abstraction, improving water quality through the Environment Agency’s water Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston) (Lab/Co-op): industry national environment programme and legislating What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to to support those measures. However, as I said at a protect British food production standards in trade deals. roundtable that I ran this week with water companies, [905807] chalk streams are vital. We have to do something to look after them, and we will be hosting a conference on The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and this on 16 October. Rural Affairs (George Eustice): We have a manifesto commitment that, in all our trade negotiations, we will James Wild: I am grateful for that reply. Last year, not compromise on our high environmental, animal water companies discharged sewage into our precious welfare and food standards. We have retained in law our chalk streams and rivers in North West Norfolk and existing standards of protection. We have laid before across the country 200,000 times. I welcome my hon. the House our negotiating objectives, stating that we Friend’s efforts to tackle that unacceptable level. Will will uphold those, and we most recently established the she instruct the Environment Agency to take more Trade and Agriculture Commission. enforcement action, and will she commit that the new powers in the Environment Bill will be used to set Seema Malhotra: Many of my constituents, including tough, legally binding targets? Nimmi Soni, have written to me with their concerns about the Government’s commitment to protecting food Rebecca Pow: We know that effective regulation is the standards. The Secretary of State is right that his party’s key to preventing pollution from impacting on water manifesto promised not to compromise on food standards quality. That is why a range of enforcement and sanction in trade deals, but twice—twice—the Government have options are open to the Environment Agency, which we refused to support Labour amendments to put that into expect to be used wherever necessary. We also expect law. If over 70% of people do not want us selling food water companies to set out how they will manage sewerage imported from countries with lower food standards, discharges through drainage and wastewater management and more than 1 million people have signed a National plans. However, I acknowledge that further action is Farmers Union petition for British food standards to be necessary, particularly on sewage pollution and combined put into law, why are the Government refusing to do sewage outlets. I referenced that at the roundtable earlier what the public want and expect? The country has a this week, and more work will be going on. right to know. 753 Oral Answers 10 SEPTEMBER 2020 Oral Answers 754 George Eustice: In retained EU law, we have indeed North and Leith (Deidre Brock), this Government are put in place the existing prohibitions on the sale of, for giving up on food standards and trade deals and are instance, poultry washed with chlorine and beef treated abandoning the EU’sprotections on protected geographical with hormones. We have legal prohibitions and our own indications. Those actions threaten Scotland’shigh-quality legal bans on certain practices. Those remain in place produce, including whisky. What reassurances can he and will not change. give to the whisky workers in my constituency that their industry will be protected, and will the Government do Luke Pollard (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) (Lab/ a welcome U-turn and seek to rejoin the EU’s protected Co-op): Yesterday was Back British Farming Day, but geographical indication scheme? while our farmers are at risk of being undercut in future trade deals, it will take more than just one day of George Eustice: We will not rejoin the EU’s scheme, wheatsheaf wearing to protect them. Will the Secretary but the withdrawal agreement makes provision in the of State support the amendment in the House of Lords area of protected food names and PGI s, and there will to put the Trade and Agriculture Commission on firmer be recognition of the existing ones that have been set footing, especially to offset the clear conflict of interest out. In addition, we will be establishing our own of Tony Abbott negotiating agricultural trade deals independent PGI and protected food name scheme to with Australia that could risk British farmers’ livelihoods take new applications after we leave. further? Air Quality George Eustice: Tony Abbott is one of a number of people on the Board of Trade. Their role is to champion Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab): What British exports overseas. They do not decide Government representations he has received on the potential merits policy or the Government’s negotiating mandate; those of amending the Environment Bill’s provisions on air negotiations are led by the Secretary of State for quality. [905808] International Trade. Wehave set up a food and agriculture and trade standards commission. That has been done Navendu Mishra (Stockport) (Lab): What representations and it is already meeting. It does not need to be placed he has received on the potential merits of amending the on a statutory footing. Environment Bill’s provisions on air quality. [905823] Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP): TheParliamentaryUnder-Secretaryof StateforEnvironment, Nancy Pelosi and several other American politicians Food and Rural Affairs (Rebecca Pow): Measures to have said that there will be no trade deal with the US if improve air quality are a key part of the Environment the UK reneges on treaties that it has signed up to, as Bill, and we have engaged with stakeholders through the the Government intend to do with the EU withdrawal development of these measures to ensure that they are agreement. Given that the UK Government dumped ambitious and impactful. We are confident that these food standards from the Agriculture Bill to pursue a US measures, including the commitments to set two air deal that now appears dead, what options will the quality targets, will deliver real benefits for air quality, Secretary of State be looking at to restore those protections, and we will continue to engage and collaborate with and can we see guarantees on food standards for imports stakeholders, parliamentarians and the public as we written into law? work to implement these measures. George Eustice: There are a number of ways in which Ruth Cadbury [V]: Until lockdown, air pollution we secure standards on food imports. One is through blighted the life expectancy and health of many of my the prohibitions on sale, as I have already mentioned, constituents and, as traffic levels are starting to rise which include things such as poultry washed with chlorine again, we are seeing the same problems of air pollution or hormones in beef.There is the sanitary and phytosanitary arise. Will the Government commit to including the chapter that exists in every trade deal that sets out our World Health Organisation’s guideline on air pollution requirements for food safety and food standards of limits in the Environment Bill, and will they also include food coming in. Finally, of course, we use tariff policy particulate matter as well as nitrogen dioxide in the to take account of certain practices in other countries.
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