Baroness Boycott

HL9582 • Education: Floods

To ask His Majesty's Government how many student learning days were lost to flooding during each of the past five academic years.

HL9583 • Schools: Temperature

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of warm days on school pupil performance.

HL7629 • Tyres: Waste Disposal

To ask His Majesty's Government what checks are carried out by DEFRA or the Environment Agency in relation to 'end of life' tyres exported to India to ascertain whether operators involved in the shipment of tyres have taken all necessary steps to ensure waste is managed in an environmentally sound manner.

HL7630 • Tyres: Waste Disposal

To ask His Majesty's Government whether any enforcement action has been commenced by (1) DEFRA, (2) the Environment Agency, or (3) other authorities responsible for waste shipping in the UK, in relation to the export of 'end of life' tyres to India to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner.

HL7631 • Tyres: Waste Disposal

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of 'end of life' tyres exported to India in the past 12 months have been exported with a T8 waste exemption.

HL6684 • Biofuels: Electricity Generation

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 20 February (HL4788), whether they will publish the referenced independent studies exploring the sustainability of biomass electricity generation.

HL4788 • Biofuels: Electricity Generation

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 3 December 2024 (col 1089) and his Written Answer on 6 February (HL4363), whether they have commissioned any independent research into the long-term sustainability of biomass electricity generation.

HL4789 • Biofuels: Electricity Generation

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the compatibility of the sustainability criteria for the biomass electricity generation industry with the UK's domestic and international commitments on reaching net zero and restoring biodiversity, and whether they plan to change the criteria for generators to increase the proportion of woody biomass that must meet the sustainability criteria from 70 to 100 per cent.

HL4363 • Biofuels: Carbon Emissions

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 3 December (HL Deb col 1089), what is the evidence that sustainably sourced biomass can provide a low-carbon and renewable energy source; whether that evidence has been produced by an independent organisation that does not have financial links to the biomass industry; and whether they will publish it.

HL4364 • Biofuels: Carbon Emissions

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stating that they “do not automatically consider or assume biomass used for energy as ‘carbon neutral’, even in cases where the biomass is thought to be produced sustainably”.

HL3979 • Sewage and Water Companies: Accountability

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 19 December 2024 (HL3060), what remedy the public currently has against a failure by a water company to proactively publish the operational sewage treatment and discharge datasets, the publication of which is not otherwise provided for in law.

HL3587 • Schools: Food

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to revise the school food standards guide so as to maximise the nutritional value of food served through the school breakfast programme.

HL3588 • Food: Waste

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to introduce mandatory reporting of food waste within the supply chains of large food retailers.

HL3589 • Food: Waste

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential merits of aligning subsidies paid out of public expenditure with the food waste hierarchy statutory guidance.

HL3590 • Food: Waste

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have estimated what proportion of food being sent to anaerobic digestion plants that is edible and fit for human consumption.

HL3591 • Universal Credit: Uprating

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have assessed the impact on the living standards of different groups of people in receipt of Universal Credit resulting from the difference between the benefit uprating of 1.7 per cent from April 2025 and a higher inflation forecast for 2025–26.

HL3592 • Food: Waste

To ask His Majesty's Government, for each of the most recent five years for which data are available, what was the total amount of public expenditure that has been allocated to companies or charities for the purposes of (1) anaerobic digestion and (2) redistributing surplus food for human consumption.

HL3060 • Sewage and Water Companies: Accountability

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 30 October (HL Deb col 1186) and on 20 November (HL Deb col 276) in relation to transparency by water companies, what are the pre-existing requirements mentioned by the Minister for water and sewage companies to publish environmental data proactively; what specific legislative provisions require this; and what the practical difficulties would be of mandating this.

HL2880 • Independent Water Commission

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 30 October that "the commission will bring in expertise from a wide range of areas, including the environment, public health, investors, consumers, engineering and economics" (HL Deb col 1139), how they plan to appoint members to the new independent water commission; whether there will be a public appointments process; and whether members will have to declare any financial interests they have with the water sector, and their amount.

HL381 • Caffeine: Children

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the timeline for banning the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children under 16.