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931508

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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: Electronic Training Aids
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 he will introduce legislative proposals to ban the use of (a) electric remote hand-held devices on dogs and (b) electric containment devices for use near dogs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	157622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Defra ran a public consultation exercise between 12 March and 27 April on a proposal to ban the use of electronic training collars. We are currently analysing the responses and will publish a summary of those responses and a way forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 11:04:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

931518

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Bread: Labelling
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 plans he has to improve the labelling of bread to ensure that all ingredients and additives are included.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers requires that all pre-packaged loaves display a full ingredient list. The exemption of loaves sold at the point of production is made in the interests of reducing unnecessary regulatory burden on small businesses and bakeries while retaining essential relevant information for the consumer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EU withdrawal Bill will bring existing provisions on to a UK legal basis.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 10:26:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

931545

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tree Planting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 14 February 2018 and 31 May 2018 to Questions 125838 and 146694 on Tree Planting and Forests, what his Department's policy is on the planting of 11 million trees during the course of this Parliament as referenced in the Conservative Party manifesto 2017.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving its manifesto commitment to plant 11 million trees over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>A number of schemes support this, including the Woodland Creation Grant under Countryside Stewardship, the Woodland Carbon Fund, the Woodland Creation Planning Grant, planting in the National Forest, and kick-starting the new Northern Forest.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently appointed a national Tree Champion who will help drive forward the commitment to plant 11 million trees.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 13:15:50 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931549

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tree Planting: Schools
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 proportion of schools in (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire have received a portion of the money invested in the Trees for Schools Programme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Over the lifetime of the Trees for Schools programme, tree packs have been provided to 16 schools in South Yorkshire, four of them in Barnsley. This equates to 2,640 trees in South Yorkshire, 900 of them in Barnsley.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 12:42:44 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931550

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Air Pollution: South Yorkshire
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 he has taken to improve air quality and reduce air pollution throughout South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is firmly committed to improving the UK’s air quality and ensure we leave our environment in a better state than we inherited it. This is supported by a £3.5billion plan to improve air quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have required 61 local authorities to develop local plans to deliver compliance with nitrogen dioxide limits as soon as possible. It is right that local authorities take the lead in developing local air quality plans as they know their local area best. The Government is supporting the local authorities with technical support in developing their plans and has committed £475m through the Implementation Fund and Clean Air Fund to provide them with funding for air quality improvements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In South Yorkshire Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council have been required to develop a local plan and to date have been awarded £2,502,100 from the Implementation Fund to date to help carry out the work needed to develop air quality plans and to implement a number of early measures including: a project to install rapid charging points at key locations across Sheffield; a project to purchase electric taxis and lease them out to taxi drivers to raise awareness of the ULEV experience; a project to adapt traffic signals on Abbeydale Road to reduce the occasions when traffic stops, with a reduction in sitting traffic lowering emissions; and funding for air quality communications. Further funding will be made available when they present their final plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, since 2017 South Yorkshire has received nearly £10m to improve air quality with Sheffield City Region awarded £7,500,000 in 2017 to support active travel, Sheffield City Council awarded £1,946,800 through the Clean Bus Technology Fund 2017-19 to enable 117 buses to be retrofitted with pollution-reducing technology, and £125,000 awarded to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council through the air quality grant to improve local air quality in Barnsley and Doncaster.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities currently have a range of tools they can use to reduce local air pollution which includes the powers to introduce a Clean Air Zone voluntarily. The Government also provides guidance and technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk and has provided an air quality toolkit for Directors of Public Health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Government has launched a consultation on a new Clean Air Strategy seeking views on a wider range of national measures and more powers to local authorities that can tackle non-transport sources of air pollution.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 158260 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:31:21 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931554

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Floods: Wales
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 he will make an estimate of the total cost of flooding in Denbighshire and Conwy to (a) the private sector, (b) the public sector, and (c) householders over the past 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	157663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Flood management in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Government.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 13:25:14 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

931583

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Pigs: Organic Farming
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 recent estimate he has made of the number of organic pig herds in the UK; and how many such herds there were in the UK five years ago.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	157668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Whilst Defra does not collect data directly on the number or size of pig herds, we do collect estimates of the total number of organic pigs and number of holdings with organic pigs in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent estimate in the UK relates to 2017 data, where there were 58,787 organic pigs across 545 holdings, giving an average of 108 pigs per holding.</p><p> </p><p>Five years prior to this in 2012, there were 34,567 organic pigs across 541 holdings, giving an average of 64 pigs per holding.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 10:26:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

931584

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Pigs: Antibiotics
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 he has made of the trends in antibiotic usage in the UK pig sector over the most recent five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	157669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The latest data announced by the Agriculture &amp; Horticulture Development Board show that antibiotic use in the pig industry has fallen by 53% from 278 mg/kg in 2015 to 131 mg/kg in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Defra recognises the progress that has been made and continues to work with the pig industry to implement their target to reduce antibiotic use to 99 mg/kg by 2020. This will be underpinned by improvements in biosecurity, husbandry practices and disease prevention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 11:06:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

931593

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Bread: Labelling
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 he will bring forward legislative proposals to (a) require producers to list all ingredients in bread and (b) establish a definition of sourdough as being additive-free and leavened using only a culture of naturally occurring yeast.
tabling member constituency	New Forest West
tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
uin	157607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 and the General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002 both require that the labelling and advertising of food must not mislead the consumer. EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 requires that all pre-packaged loaves display a full ingredient list.</p><p> </p><p>A restricted number of additives are permitted in in sourdough bread under EC Regulation 1333/2008 – there are no plans at present to change these. However when we leave the EU there will be an opportunity to review this. The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 contain a few, limited definitions but the focus on the legislation is on the fortification of white and brown flour with certain nutrients, mostly for restorative purposes. There are no current plans to include a legal definition for sour dough within the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 but the baking industry itself may consider agreeing a code of practise about what should be described as a UK sourdough bread.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 15:34:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

926477

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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	Forestry Commission: Land
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hectares of land managed by the Forestry Commission in England are (1) open habitat, (2) agricultural land, (3) quarries, (4) car parks, and (5) built development.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL8731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2018 answer text <p>The Public Forest Estate in England is placed at the disposal of the Forestry Commissioners under section (3)1 of the Forestry Act 1967. Figures for the area of land managed by the Forestry Commission in England are given below. The area includes land in both freehold and leasehold ownership. The figures below are accurate for the 1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Land managed by the Forestry Commission in England</p></td><td><p>Hectares (Ha)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(1) Open habitat</p></td><td><p>44,567 ha</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) Agricultural land</p></td><td><p>7,212 ha</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3) Quarries</p></td><td><p>216 ha</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4) Car parks</p></td><td><p>152 ha</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Built development</p></td><td><p>243 ha</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/06/2018 08:20:54 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans