Since last updating the House, we have remained focused on delivering our plan to improve food security, on improving our water quality, and on leading the way both at home and abroad in protecting the environment. We are introducing legislation to ban wet wipes containing plastic, launching a £35 million scheme on the River Wye as part of our catchment plan, and reinvesting £11.5 million in water company fines and penalties into restoration schemes.

Our flagship announcement at COP28 was taking leading action on forest risk commodities. Many who have watched nature documentaries can see how important that is to particular species. I hope to table legislation on that later this month.

We have already banned bonuses for those companies guilty of serious pollution, quadrupled the number of inspections as part of a tougher enforcement scheme, and brought record investment into the water industry.

We recognise the importance of food security and the clustering of solar sites on farmland. The right hon. Friend can see the shift in focus to our environmental schemes that align with food security because I believe that food security is instrumental to national security.

We are clear about the importance of food production, food security and backing our farmers. It is left-wing councils around the country that are banning meat and acting contrary to the interests of many of our farmers.

We are constantly working with those farmers facing the misery of a TB outbreak. I am aware of an outbreak in my hon. Friend's constituency in Leicestershire, which is very painful for the individual farmers concerned.

We are taking action on plastics. There has been a 93% reduction in the use of plastic bags as a result of measures that this Government have introduced. We were supporting action on plastics at the G7 in Turin.

Having been to Cornwall to meet my hon. Friend and see the StARR project for myself, I am more than happy to meet to discuss what more we can do.

We are continually engaging with the sector, had a farm to fork summit as part of engagement, and are looking at easements in schemes like the sustainable farming incentive. More details will be shared shortly.

We are a huge supporter of internal drainage boards and have allocated £75 million. We will look constructively at what more can be done through the focus of drainage boards, including flexing regulations in response to storms like Storm Henk.

We can tailor our response with specific legislation such as gene editing and procurement/labelling laws, and through schemes like the SFI where more than 20,000 farmers are signed up.

I am more than happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss at speed because projects such as flood alleviation schemes are valuable in better protecting homes.

I commend the national forest achievements. The Forestry Commission's map shows best places for tree planting are not on what we call best available land, prioritised for food production.