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479582

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department received from the European Social Fund (a) between 2007 and 2014 and (b) from 2014 to the last month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	31640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has not received any funding from the European Social Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/03/2016 15:54:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

479156

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the net value was of food imports from Africa in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	31424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The following table shows the net value (imports minus exports) of food imports from Africa, for the last ten years, according to HMRC trade statistics<strong><strong>[1]</strong></strong>:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£'million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Exports</p></td><td><p>Total Imports</p></td><td><p><em>Net Imports</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>173.5</p></td><td><p>1,200.7</p></td><td><p><em>1,027.1</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>168.5</p></td><td><p>1,260.7</p></td><td><p><em>1,092.2</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>263.6</p></td><td><p>1,428.6</p></td><td><p><em>1,165.0</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>259.2</p></td><td><p>1,506.2</p></td><td><p><em>1,247.1</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>372.1</p></td><td><p>1,419.7</p></td><td><p><em>1,047.7</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>375.0</p></td><td><p>1,497.6</p></td><td><p><em>1,122.6</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>430.0</p></td><td><p>1,419.9</p></td><td><p><em>990.0</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>502.9</p></td><td><p>1,565.5</p></td><td><p><em>1,062.6</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>594.6</p></td><td><p>1,467.5</p></td><td><p><em>872.9</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>448.7</p></td><td><p>1,307.9</p></td><td><p><em>859.2</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total trade</p></td><td><p>3,588.1</p></td><td><p>14,074.3</p></td><td><p><em>10,486.2</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1]</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: HM Revenue and Customs</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Data prepared by the Food &amp; Trade Statistics team, Great British Food Unit, Defra</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2015 data are subject to amendments</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/03/2016 11:58:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

479157

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the net value was of food imports from the EU in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	31425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The following table shows the net value (imports minus exports) of food imports from EU countries, for the last ten years, according to HMRC trade statistics[1]:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£'million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Exports</p></td><td><p>Total Imports</p></td><td><p><em>Net Imports</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>6,849.6</p></td><td><p>14,293.2</p></td><td><p><em>7,443.6</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>6,761.9</p></td><td><p>14,250.4</p></td><td><p><em>7,488.5</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>7,401.8</p></td><td><p>14,534.3</p></td><td><p><em>7,132.5</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>7,724.5</p></td><td><p>13,888.6</p></td><td><p><em>6,164.2</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>8,265.3</p></td><td><p>14,311.8</p></td><td><p><em>6,046.6</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>7,319.9</p></td><td><p>14,638.1</p></td><td><p><em>7,318.2</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>6,085.5</p></td><td><p>16,498.5</p></td><td><p><em>10,412.9</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5,837.4</p></td><td><p>19,021.0</p></td><td><p><em>13,183.7</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6,422.6</p></td><td><p>17,354.3</p></td><td><p><em>10,931.7</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>7,560.6</p></td><td><p>18,065.6</p></td><td><p><em>10,504.9</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total trade</p></td><td><p>70,229.1</p></td><td><p>156,855.9</p></td><td><p><em>86,626.8</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1]</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: HM Revenue and Customs</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Data prepared by the Food &amp; Trade Statistics team, Great British Food Unit, Defra</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2015 data are subject to amendments</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/03/2016 12:04:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

479158

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) prevent the spread of the outbreak of canine babesiosis and (b) deter the impact from mainland Europe of infected animals carrying tick-borne viruses.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	31269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Experts at the Animal &amp; Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Public Health England (PHE) are working together to investigate the locally acquired cases of canine babesiosis in Essex. Environmental tick control through vegetation management can be difficult to achieve and the use of acaricides in the environment is prohibited. The most effective control is for owners to treat dogs promptly for ticks.</p><p> </p><p>Ticks are associated with a range of vertebrate hosts, including livestock, wildlife and wild birds, so we cannot prevent all these routes of entry. In addition, several UK species of tick are capable of transmitting various diseases which like Babesia canis are also not notifiable.</p><p> </p><p>Livestock and horses imported from mainland Europe are certified to be healthy and should therefore be free of ticks and we recommend that people treat pet dogs with an appropriate treatment that kills ticks as soon as they attach, prior to bringing them from Europe.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/03/2016 17:17:08 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

479159

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of potential benefits of re-introduction of tick treatment as a requirement for the importation of dogs from mainland Europe into the UK under the Pet Passport scheme.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	31270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The requirement for tick treatment was dropped as part of the harmonisation of the EU pet travel rules for movement and import of non-commercial dogs following a qualitative risk assessment and economic impact assessment for the introduction of Mediterranean Spotted fever (MSF) and the Brown Dog tick, <em>Rhipicephalus sanguineus</em>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/03/2016 17:43:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

475641

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Sewers: Rain
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to require utilities companies, highways authorities and developers to ensure that new drainage and sewerage systems have sufficient capacity to accommodate the rainfall volume experienced on 26 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>In March, the Government published ‘Enabling resilience in the water sector’ (see: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-sector-improving-long-term-resilience" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-sector-improving-long-term-resilience</a>) which sets out our expectation that sewerage companies will show leadership in working with the wide range of actors with an impact on drainage systems to assess future pressures and will undertake the necessary long-term planning and investment to meet their duties.</p><p>Under section 94 of the Water Industry Act 1991, a sewerage company has a duty to provide a sewerage service so as to effectually drain its area. This duty does not mean that sewerage companies must prevent sewer flooding in all circumstances as it would not be practicable to build sewers to a capacity necessary to cope with the additional load of extreme rainfall events.</p><p>Working in partnership with other risk management authorities, water companies also have a wider role to play in flood risk management including helping manage the risks associated with very heavy rainfall and flash flooding. They must exercise their flood risk management functions in a way which is consistent with national and local flood risk management strategies.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 21/03/2016 15:24:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475694

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Department has paid in fines to the EU since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	31252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>As from financial year 2010/11 Defra has accrued £336m for disallowance following the conclusion of EU audits, broken down by financial year as shown in the table below. This relates to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Schemes over a number of historical scheme years as disallowance is paid in arrears. These are the only fines that have been imposed on Defra by the EU since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Disallowance (*) £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission have ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 31253 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:13:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

475695

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has paid in fines to the EU as a result of the Common Agricultural Policy since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	31253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>As from financial year 2010/11 Defra has accrued £336m for disallowance following the conclusion of EU audits, broken down by financial year as shown in the table below. This relates to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Schemes over a number of historical scheme years as disallowance is paid in arrears. These are the only fines that have been imposed on Defra by the EU since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Disallowance (*) £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission have ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 31252 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:13:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

457908

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Tunnels: Excavation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the spoil from Crossrail tunnelling deposited at Wallasea Island was authorised under a landfill or recovery permit or licence and whether the same designation will apply to spoil deposited from the Thames Tideway Tunnel excavations.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The site at Wallasea Island received the Crossrail tunnel excavated material under a deposit for recovery permit.</p><p> </p><p>Tideway, the Infrastructure Provider set up to finance, build, maintain and operate the Thames Tideway Tunnel, is assessing several sites that were identified as part of the information submitted for the Development Consent Order consent to receive the tunnel excavated material. In order to meet its commitment to transport by river Tideway is focussing on sites in the Thames Estuary. The type of permit these sites require is being assessed in line with current statutory guidance. A number of applications have been made and are being determined by the Environment Agency.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/03/2016 13:45:31 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

457909

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Thames Tideway Tunnel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 3 March (HL6235), what destinations are currently licensed to accept spoil from the Thames Tideway Tunnel, and what commitments have been given about whether such spoil may be sent to landfill permit sites.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There are many sites across the country licensed to accept the type of excavated material and waste from the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT). Tideway, the Infrastructure Provider set up to finance, build, maintain and operate the TTT, is assessing several sites that were identified as part of the information submitted for the Development Consent Order consent to receive the TTT excavated material. In order to meet Tideway's commitment to transport by river, it is focussing on sites in the Thames Estuary. The type of permit these sites require is being assessed in line with current statutory guidance. A number of applications have been made and are being determined by the Environment Agency.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/03/2016 13:51:29 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley