From EORI numbers, to manually entering 149 different lines of data that was not previously required, export health certificates, a ‘statement of value’ and an “export pack” which includes 22 invoices to show at the checkpoint, the paperwork for the one truck load of fish described in this article came to 71 pages. Click here […]
Plastic pollution of the marine environment, of which food and drink packaging is a significant contributor, has captured public interest over the past two years, and the Government has set out its ambitions to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042. In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as […]
The Environment Agency’s Climate Change impacts and adaptation report (2018) highlighted that it may not be cost effective to protect or adapt some of England’s coastline as currently planned. Some coastal flood defences may possibly fail as sea levels rise, meaning some currently defended land may not continue to be defended from flooding in the […]
The Government respond to the EFRA Committee’s Flood Report – Simon Wightman Senior Policy Officer, RSPB In November 2016, I wrote a blog about the EFRA Committee’s Report on Future Flood Prevention. On balance, the report was a useful contribution to the national debate about how we best prepare for floods. We have now seen the Government’s response to […]
MPs from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee are calling for an overhaul of flood management in England to tackle the rising risk to communities from climate change in a report on Future flood prevention. Read the report summary Read the report conclusions and recommendations Read the full report: Future flood prevention Five million people at […]
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee hears from Flood Re and the insurance industry on the affordability and availability of insurance for customers in flood risk areas and the impact of the government-backed Flood Re reinsurance scheme. Brendan McCafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Flood Re and Mark Hoban, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Flood […]
The air quality issue is a barometer of how this Government views the environment and of course we know that isn’t very highly. The trouble is, and as they are finding, when things that go wrong cost lots more to put right. The EFRA committee report on air quality will be like water off a […]
The EFRA committee report on air quality will be like water off a ducks back to Oliver Letwin. But some of this mud is going to stick to him and the Government. Air quality failings are a significant factor in the London Mayoral elections, the London airport runway decision and Government were warned by the […]