Environmental policy funding
Withdrawal or reduction of government funding for long-term environmental data collection and inadequate funding for environmental land management schemes.
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Committee recommendation
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#28 - Safeguard the Blue Belt Programme's long-term future with sustained funding for science and enforcement.
The Government should safeguard the long-term future of the Blue Belt Programme by committing to sustained funding through the Official Development Assistance budget or alternative mechanisms. Particular focus should be given to supporting science, monitoring, and enforcement in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area. Given its ecological significance within the Southern Ocean, continued investment...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#69 - Establish long-term funding for Antarctica InSync to ensure UK participation and leadership.
We recognise the importance of the Antarctica InSync programme, where 26 nations will collaborate during the 2028–29 Antarctic season to conduct synchronous climate measurements across land, sea, air, and space, with results presented during the International Polar Year in 2032–33. To ensure full UK participation and leadership in Antarctica InSync, we recommend that the Government and the Natural...
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - Publish a plan for a just transition for marine sectors impacted by changes
The Government should publish a plan to secure a just transition for those affected by changes through targeted support, skills development, identification of long-term opportunities and associated funding. The support should reflect both traditional and emerging marine sectors, to ensure the retention of existing expertise while supporting the adoption of more sustainable practices within those industries. The plan...
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - Failure to guarantee long-term funding for maritime decarbonisation research risks stifling progress.
The Government’s current refusal to guarantee funding for research and development into maritime decarbonisation beyond March 2025 is regrettable. We note that the Aviation Technology Institute has received a guarantee of funding to 2030, no doubt reflecting the importance to the economy, and to decarbonisation targets, of rapid progress in reducing emissions from domestic and international aviation. By...
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Committee recommendation
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#16 - Reinstate DEFRA funding for sustained long-term data collection and monitoring at Lyme Bay.
We recommend that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reinstates funding to ensure the long-term data collection and monitoring at Lyme Bay is sustained to enable scientific analysis of the benefits of whole-site approaches for marine protection. We urge DEFRA to make this decision urgently to ensure the continuous data collection at this site is...
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Committee recommendation
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#15 - Cessation of funding for Lyme Bay undermines crucial long-term marine data collection.
Long-term data collection is critical to scientific analysis of the effectiveness of marine protection measures such as whole-site protections and their impact on ecosystem recovery. We are concerned that funding for Lyme Bay has stopped, and this will lead to a gap in long-term data collection and undermine marine conservation efforts. (Conclusion, Paragraph 66)
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#26 - Increase long-term funding for British Antarctic Survey terrestrial biodiversity research and ecological specialists.
To address this urgent gap, the Government should increase long-term core funding to the British Antarctic Survey to support its terrestrial biodiversity research. Investment should prioritise the recruitment, training, and retention of ecological specialists, ensuring sustained expertise in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems. (Recommendation, Paragraph 143) 98
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Review and commit to further matching funding for UK shipping decarbonisation research until 2030.
The Government must send clear and unambiguous signals to the UK maritime sector that it is committed to supporting its transition to net zero. We recommend that Ministers urgently review the funding perspectives for decarbonisation of UK shipping and, no later than the next fiscal event, provide a commitment to further matching funding for research and development to...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#11 - Shipping decarbonisation research funding dwarfed by aviation technology investment.
The provision of up to £206 million of matching funding for research into low- and zero-emission shipping is to be applauded, and no doubt represents a step change in Government investment in the field. It is, however, dwarfed by the sums of public money committed to research and development into aviation technologies, including low-carbon aviation, since 2013.
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#61 - Increase funding envelope to cover 20% grant cost gap for British Antarctic Survey.
We note that the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), in common with other UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) research institutes, currently receives only 80% of its grant costs, compared to universities which receive full funding based on the Full Economic Cost model, covering 100% of their costs. This funding gap hinders BAS’s and other research institutes’ ability to fully...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#64 - Secure long-term access to satellite data for Antarctic research via international agreements.
The UK Government should secure long-term access to high-quality satellite data by maintaining participation in European programmes beyond 2027 and expanding data-sharing agreements. Additionally, funding mechanisms 105 should be established to support researchers in accessing commercial satellite imagery, ensuring equitable use of remote sensing technology in Antarctic research. (Recommendation, Paragraph 271)
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#32 - Develop new funding systems for Environment Agency compliance monitoring and site visits.
More monitoring will mean that these agencies need to be fully resourced. In the case of the Environment Agency, where funding for monitoring usually comes via the Environmental Permitting regulations, the Department needs to come up with ways of driving up this funding. This could be achieved by putting more activities under Environmental Permitting or by developing new...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#25 - Launch net zero ports consultation immediately to plan infrastructure, funding, and electrification requirements.
We recommend that Ministers launch their planned consultation on net zero ports without further delay, so as to gather signals from the ports industry and the wider maritime sector at the earliest opportunity as to what infrastructure is likely to be required to minimise the emissions from ships at berth in UK ports, to provide for bunkering and...
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Committee recommendation
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#59 - Insufficient funding undermines UK's world-leading polar research capabilities and impact.
The UK must be properly equipped to address the major research priorities in the polar regions. Antarctic research plays a critical role in advancing global understanding of climate change, ocean systems, and polar ecosystems, issues that affect lives and economies far beyond the region. Despite the UK’s world-leading capabilities, the Committee heard clear and consistent evidence that insufficient...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#27 - First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
The Government increased Natural England’s baseline funding by £11.3 million in in 2020–21 and has committed to increasing this by a further £75 million. Whilst 118 Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? the funding increase is welcome, it does little to provide the consistent multi-year investment required for Natural England to deliver its duties and new responsibilities...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#26 - First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Between 2013–14 to 2019–20 Natural England’s baseline funding reduced by 49 per cent. The body considers that it can no longer deliver its statutory duties to a good standard as a direct consequence of these cuts. The cuts have fallen disproportionately on Natural England’s budget for monitoring and information provision.
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#23 - First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
We recommend that the Government urgently review the funding allocated to bodies with responsibility for monitoring, protecting and increasing levels of biodiversity in England, consistent with its goals for nature recovery under the 25 Year Environment Plan. In the next Spending Review the Chancellor of the Exchequer must back the Government’s ambition for nature recovery with a funding...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#8 - Require Defra to set public health goals for wastewater and conduct more research
Mismanagement of wastewater and sewage is a serious public health concern and heightens the threat of AMR. Storm overflows involve sewage getting into waterways such as rivers. They increase the prevalence and diversity of resistant pathogens in the environment and are a serious public health concern. In 2016, 862 storm overflow sites were monitored for spills, and they...
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terms: environmental, policy
NAO recommendation
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Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals
• assesses the short-, medium- and long-term costs of this delivery plan to ensure that Defra and HM Treasury have a shared view of the associated costs and how these might be financed.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#28 - First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
In the next multi-annual spending review, we recommend that Natural England receive a materially greater contribution in annual funding, in line with its 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review bid.
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#22 - First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
To deliver the Government’s environmental vision to improve the environment within a generation, arm’s length bodies and departments need to have the funding to do so. Budget cuts to biodiversity expenditure over the last decade have hindered this.
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Committee recommendation
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#72 - Fourth Report - Water quality in rivers
Delivering the step change in action on water quality that is demanded will require DEFRA to set a strong strategic direction and clear targets. Regulators must be empowered and funded adequately to implement and enforce the relevant provisions of the amended Water Industry Act and the new Environment Act. We note that in 2020 the annual grant support...
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terms: environmental, funding
Committee recommendation
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#18 - Expand Highly Protected Marine Areas network to 10% of UK waters by 2030, publishing designation plan.
We urge the Government to expand the network of Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMA) to 10% of UK waters by 2030 to meet 30by30 targets, based on the evidence of their effectiveness in enabling marine nature recovery. The Marine Recovery Fund should be used to assist the establishment of new HPMAs. To ensure consistent progress across the UK,...
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terms: environmental, policy
NAO recommendation
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Regulating to achieve environmental outcomes
Defra should do the following: a) By December 2024, as Defra complies with its statutory reporting requirements under the Environment Act, it should incorporate detailed operational plans for how it will achieve the goals of the EIP, including the role of regulation alongside other policy interventions. Defra should set out its understanding of where regulation is currently being...
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Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-159 - Consider funding arrangements for police services
The Inquiry heard evidence that the impact of public funding cuts fell disproportionately hard on metropolitan police services, such as Greater Manchester Police, compared with non-metropolitan services. In the event that public funding cuts are in the future considered necessary by the government, the Home Office should consider whether some funding arrangement for police services different from that...
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - HS2 Ltd fails to monitor total spending on environmental mitigation schemes.
HS2 Ltd does not monitor how much in total it spends on environmental mitigation. For example, we asked HS2 Ltd how much it was spending on wildlife migration schemes such as for the great crested newt at Halse Copse. In its follow–up letter, HS2 Ltd told us that it was not able 38 Qq 15–16, 18; Letter from...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#22 - Ensure environmental legislation requirements do not disproportionately increase major public infrastructure project costs.
We challenged the Department on the balance in legislation that needs to be taken between meeting environmental obligations and costs, raising the example of the £100 million cost of a protective ‘bat tunnel’.36 In order to mitigate HS2’s impact on nearby bat habitats, the Sheephouse Wood Bat Protection Structure is being constructed near Calvert in Buckinghamshire. The structure...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#41 - Wastewater management primarily viewed as an environmental issue, hindering public health approach to AMR.
We asked DHSC and VMD if they were concerned about the dumping of sewage.105 DHSC noted that there are a lot of storm overflows and that these are one of the main routes by which resistant pathogens get into waterways. It told us that the other main route was through the ordinary use of water treatment works, which...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#35 - Fourth Report - Water quality in rivers
We note that the Environment Agency does not consider any use of storm overflows to be a pollution incident: discharges from overflows are classed as permitted discharges as long as they comply with the terms of the relevant permit. This is unlikely to incentivise overall reductions in discharges. We recommend that the 124 Water quality in rivers Environment...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#4 - Assess new nature restoration fund's impact using HS2 bat tunnel case study
HS2 Ltd’s efforts to reduce the environmental impact of HS2 are not delivering value for money, with the c.£100 million cost of a protective ‘bat tunnel’ more than doubling the cost of that section of railway alone. The Committee does not consider that the right balance has been struck between protecting the landscape and wildlife and the burden...
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terms: environmental
Inquiry recommendation
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MAI-143 - Consistent and sufficient LRF funding
The Home Office should consider how local resilience forums are to be funded consistently and sufficiently to enable them to do their important work.
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Committee recommendation
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#24 - Department and HS2 Ltd recognise need for improved balance between environmental compliance and cost.
The Department strongly agreed, however, about how the balance between compliance and cost should be considered when delivering national infrastructure in the future.41 HS2 Ltd also recognised that it was a complex issue and a sensitive area, telling us that the structure needed local planning permission from Buckinghamshire Council which led to at least a four–year delay which...
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terms: environmental
PFD report
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Nigel Sweet
A dangerous stretch of the A38 with a high collision rate lacks funding for a proposed average speed camera safety scheme.
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Committee recommendation
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#38 - First Report - Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy
Increasing resource productivity by reducing the amount of resource that is extracted to make new products will be crucial to reducing the damaging impact of extractive industries on the environment and safeguarding scarce resources that are vital to a low-carbon economy. Improving the long-term price certainty of recycled materials will help recyclers invest in more capacity and improved...
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Committee recommendation
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#19 - Publish urgent plans for investing revenues from BNG credit sales
We are concerned to note that the Government has not yet published full details of its approach to the investment of revenues from the sale of BNG credits. The Government must demonstrate that it is committed to this approach to nature renewal, rather than treating it as another source of revenue to the Exchequer. We recommend that Ministers...
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NAO recommendation
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Local government and net zero in England
e) carry out an overall outline analysis of local authority funding for net zero, to inform the next Comprehensive Spending Review. This should: i) be developed in parallel with, and informed by, the development of a clearer articulation of local authorities’ role in achieving the national net zero strategy; ii) consider short, medium and long-term cost pressures and...
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PFD report
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Harold Davies
A junction has a history of multiple fatalities, but proposed remedial safety works lack funding and commencement dates. There are also concerns about the national speed limit on the approach and insufficient warning signs.
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PFD report
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Kaius Tutt
Faded road markings and visibility issues at a roundabout create hazardous conditions. A recommendation to remove a dangerous downhill overtaking section lacks funding for implementation.
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Committee recommendation
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#43 - First Report - Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy
The Environment Agency in England should be undertaking stronger enforcement activity and should be actively collecting data and information to estimate the actual quantities of E-waste being exported illegally. (Paragraph 161) 66 Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#73 - Fourth Report - Water quality in rivers
We recommend that the level of financial support provided to the Environment Agency be reviewed as a matter of urgency in the light of its new statutory responsibilities and the scale of the regulatory task it faces, recognising its continued need for efficiency. Water quality in rivers 129 We further recommend that the Environment Agency, the Secretary of...
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Committee recommendation
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#29 - Forty-First Report - Achieving Net Zero: Follow up
In addition to direct costs to the Exchequer of achieving net zero, HM Treasury also recognises the impact of behaviour change reducing tax revenues. Revenues from Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty amounted to £37 billion in 2019–20, and if the current tax system were to remain unchanged receipts from these taxes will decline towards zero over the...
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#16 - Develop strategy and delivery plan for zero-emission marine fuel manufacturing facilities in UK clusters.
As part of the updated Clean Maritime Plan the Government must develop a strategy to support the development in UK maritime clusters of facilities for the manufacture of zero-emission marine fuels. This strategy must be supported by a delivery plan which sets clear production milestones.
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terms: environmental
Committee recommendation
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#14 - Government's failure to commit to zero-emission marine fuel manufacturing facilities is disappointing.
As with low-carbon aviation fuel, the development of manufacturing capacity for zero-emission marine fuels is vital for the security of the UK’s maritime trade and for the establishment of green shipping corridors. It is disappointing that the Government says it is “not yet able to commit” to the establishment of manufacturing facilities in clean maritime clusters so as...
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Taxpayer purchase of ecosystem services alone is insufficient for required scale of nature recovery.
Taxpayer purchase of ecosystem services alone is no longer a sufficient mechanism to deliver the overall improvement in ecosystem services necessary for the scale of nature recovery required. (Conclusion, Paragraph 49)
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Committee recommendation
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#40 - The 2019–24 NAP demonstrated limited ambition and insufficient action on AMR in wastewater.
The 2019–24 NAP contained limited ambitions regarding AMR and the environment, although it was based on a ‘One Health’ approach. An independent evaluation of the 2019–24 NAP by the Policy Innovation and Research Unit was particularly critical of the UK’s management of wastewater, and highlighted a lack of data and insufficient policy action taken to address the issue...
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terms: policy
Committee recommendation
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#34 - Ensure sufficient resourcing, prioritisation, and implementation focus for scientific AMR research globally.
Several organisations carry out research on AMR, including DHSC and UKHSA who are responsible for funding some of this research, for example through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) which reported that it funded £88 million of AMR research as part of the 2019–24 NAP.87 Much AMR research is also carried out globally outside of...
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NAO recommendation
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Active Travel in England
DfT should: c. develop a more stable funding environment for local authorities delivering active travel interventions by working with others in government. This would help local authorities to invest in plans and resources and deliver interventions more efficiently;
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PFD report
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James McLaren
Inadequate securing of commercial and communal bins, including unsecured lids and easily opened locks, increases the risk of people sheltering inside and potentially becoming trapped.
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Committee recommendation
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#41 - First Report - Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy
However, due to the serious impact of E-waste on human health and the environment, both here and overseas, and the sheer quantity potentially being exported illegally, the Environment Agency should deem all electrical and electronic exports as risky and in need of more stringent requirements before exportation is allowed. (Paragraph 159) Recommendation 26
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Committee recommendation
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#17 - Consult on introducing a revenue support mechanism to incentivise UK zero-emission marine fuel production.
We recommend that Ministers consult on the introduction of a revenue support mechanism to incentivise the commercial production of zero-emission marine fuels in the UK. (Paragraph 139) Technical measures to decarbonise shipping: efficiency improvements
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terms: environmental