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173810

registered interest
date	14/01/2015
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	Fracking
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 the effects of fracking on rural communities; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	220692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Shale gas exploitation has the potential to benefit rural communities. It will create jobs in the industry and supply chain. Communities will also benefit locally from a share of the revenues and from additional business rates. The Department of Energy and Climate Change lead on the economic benefits of shale gas. Any potential impacts, including those on the local environment, are fully considered through the rigorous permitting and planning processes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 14:00:36 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin

173391

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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	Community Impact Bucks
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if she will make funds available to Community Impact Bucks for 2015-16 and 2016-17 to replace the funding that has been withdrawn from Action with Communities in Rural England from March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	220538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>We value the work that the Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) network does at the local level to ensure the rural voice is heard and to inspire community action. Future funding is being carefully considered and no final decision has yet been made.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/01/2015 11:58:04 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

173392

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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: Lancaster
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 responsibilities and obligations were inherited by the Environment Agency from predecessor bodies for the maintenance of particular flood defences in Lancaster and Fleetwood; and whether those responsibilities and obligations remain in place.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	220549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Environment Agency inherited jurisdiction over flood defences within the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency that were previously maintained by the National Rivers Authority, and prior to that North West Water. Several Acts of Parliament have accompanied these changes.</p><p>The Environment Agency understands that responsibilities and obligations from predecessor bodies have been consolidated and remain in place.</p><p>Coastal jurisdiction is split between local authorities for coast protection and the Environment Agency and its predecessors for sea defences. This position was clarified by the Shoreline Management Plan 2010.</p><p>Inland, the Environment Agency has a role in managing flood risk from “main rivers” (as defined by Defra). This can include maintenance of flood risk management assets on a permissive and affordable basis and in line with Treasury Rules and Defra Guidance. Maintenance work is undertaken as identified by the Catchment Flood Management Plans that guide the level of work needed at a particular location.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 13:59:10 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

173395

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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	Lake District National Park and Yorkshire Dales National Park
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to announce whether Natural England's Variation Orders of 2012 extending the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks will be confirmed.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	220639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>A public inquiry into Natural England’s proposals to extend the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks was held in June 2013. The inspector’s report has been submitted to Defra and is now being considered. The Secretary of State will issue her decisions in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/01/2015 11:58:53 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

173073

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Waste Disposal
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 encourage the use of green waste as compost.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	220327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government supports recycling of green waste, including work to develop markets for quality compost. For example, the Government has supported the Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) to facilitate the development of the British Standard Institution’s Publicly Available Standard 100 (BSI PAS 100), working with industry to deliver a robust specification which provides national standards for quality of compost. In addition, the Environment Agency has revised its Quality Protocol for compost, which sets out when compost is no longer treated as “waste”. These standards provide confidence in composted materials for end users and help producers ensure their products are safe, reliable and perform well.</p><p>The Government is also helping fund a four year research project undertaking large scale field trials and demonstration projects into the use of quality anaerobic digestate (biofertiliser) and compost in agriculture. This includes an extensive knowledge exchange programme to support the use of green waste as compost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 14:01:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

173074

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Bees
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 efforts to reintroduce the short-haired bumblebee Bombus subterraneus to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	220328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The reintroduction of <em>Bombus subterraneus</em> (the short-haired bumblebee) to the UK has been underway since 2012 through a partnership between Natural England, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the RSPB and Hymettus. There have been annual releases of queen bees from Sweden in the Dungeness and Romney Marsh area of Kent. A number of landowners in the area are supporting the reintroduction by restoring the habitat that the species depends on using agri-environment schemes. The partnership project officer and a team of volunteers have been monitoring this habitat every summer and in 2013 and 2014 worker short-haired bumblebees were seen in the area. This provides direct evidence that at least some of the released queens have successfully formed colonies. Queen releases and monitoring of habitat will continue through to 2016 at which point it is hoped that there will be evidence that a self-sustaining population is becoming established.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 15:32:37 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

173183

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Waste Disposal
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 progress has been made on the Waste to Bioeconomy roadmap; and whether her Department plans to provide any assistance to local authorities in relation to anaerobic digestion.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	220477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Defra has a joint Government championship role with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in developing a Bioeconomy Roadmap, considering the opportunities of growing the bio economy sector with an initial focus on waste as a feedstock. Good progress is being made. Both Departments continue to work closely together, coordinating development of this agenda across Whitehall, industry and stakeholders. We aim to publish the roadmap in March this year.</p><p>The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), with funding from Defra, has supported local authority trials of separate weekly food waste collection for either in-vessel composting or anaerobic digestion and is updating its guidance on collecting food waste to be published in late spring this year. WRAP also provides advice and support more widely to small businesses and operators interested in using anaerobic digestion to process biowaste.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 14:00:05 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

173184

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Fracking
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 publish by 16 January 2015 the Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lewes
tabling member printed	Norman Baker
uin	220483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Bassetlaw, John Mann, on 11 September 2014, Official Report, column 723W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 15/01/2015 11:48:38 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	28 label Biography information for Norman Baker

173185

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Rivers: Repairs and Maintenance
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 progress has been made in deregulating the consent process for river maintenance pilots; and what plans she has to start new pilot schemes (a) along the Thames in Berkshire and (b) elsewhere.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	220494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>On 10 December 2014, Defra launched a consultation on proposals to integrate flood defence consents into the Environmental Permitting framework. The new scheme will simplify the application process while removing unnecessary costs and burdens for those who wish to carry out construction works or other activities in, or near, main rivers.</p><p>The River Maintenance Pilots (which explore how red tape could be reduced for landowners who wish to undertake maintenance in man-made ditches, land drains or previously straightened watercourses that had been dredged in the last ten years) were launched by the Environment Agency in October 2013 and were scheduled to last for one year. In response to interest shown by local farmers, the pilots were expanded in May 2014 to include two new pilot areas, and expand an existing area. To allow those affected by the 2013/14 floods extra time to carry out their work, the pilots were also extended until mid-March 2015. We will consider the evidence from the pilots when they are complete.</p><p>In addition, the Environment Agency and National Farmers Union are launching a new local initiative across rural Oxfordshire to help landowners along tributaries of the River Thames with the consenting process. This initiative will start in 2015/16 and it is likely to expand into Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/01/2015 15:41:20 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

172767

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Fracking
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 Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 208622, if she will reconsider her decision not to publish the Shale Gas Rural Economy Impact Report.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	220152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>I have nothing to add to the reply given to the hon. Member for Bassetlaw, John Mann, on 11 September 2014, Official Report, column 723W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 13/01/2015 13:52:04 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching