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577502

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Bovine Tuberculosis
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 criteria her Department used to make the decision on new licenses for badger culling in Cornwall, Herefordshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	45471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The criteria Natural England uses when assessing applications for licences for the purpose of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis under section 10(2)(a) of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 can be found on the gov.uk website at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb</a></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 14:15:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

577509

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Nature Conservation: Africa
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 work the Government has undertaken with African governments on identifying and protecting endangered species.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	45338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government works with African governments on the conservation of endangered species through a number of fora. We work multi-laterally through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to protect a wide range of endangered species in Africa. This includes attending the CITES Conference of Parties, the next of which will take place in South Africa between 24 September and 5 October this year, where proposals on a wide range of endangered species of interest to African governments will be discussed. As preparation for this meeting the UK part funded a meeting bringing together African lion range countries to discuss lion conservation in Entebbe during the summer.</p><p>In addition the UK has undertaken bi-lateral work with various African countries, in particular to address illegal wildlife trade since the London Conference on Combatting Illegal Wildlife Trade was held in 2014. This work is supported with £13 million, most of which is distributed through the competitive Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/09/2016 14:22:26 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

577657

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
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 she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 3 August 2016 on legislation on dangerous dogs related to a constituency case.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
uin	45353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, Lord Gardiner, replied to the letter of 3 August from hon. Member for Walsall North on 12 September.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 12:08:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

576803

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Dairy 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, how many dairy farmers there were in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	45330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The number of dairy farms in England from 2011 to 2015 is shown below along with the number of cows in the dairy herd on these farms. The source of cattle population data is the administrative Cattle Tracing System (CTS) data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of dairy farms<sup>(a)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of cows in the dairy herd</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>9 041</p></td><td><p>1 112 459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8 663</p></td><td><p>1 104 676</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8 342</p></td><td><p>1 098 610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>8 092</p></td><td><p>1 128 548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>7 982</p></td><td><p>1 148 089</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) Sourced from Cattle Tracing System (CTS). Defined as the number of holdings with more than 10 female dairy cows over 2 years old in the milking herd (i.e. with offspring)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 14:12:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

576804

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Rural Payments Agency: Telephone Services
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 many Rural Payments Agency staff have been tasked with responding to telephone enquiries from farmers on the Basic Payments Scheme in each year since 2011-12.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	45230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>All staff in the RPA contact centre deal with external calls covering every part of the agency’s business, including the Basic Payment Scheme introduced in 2015. The contact centre is made up of a core telephony team but additional operational resource is deployed on the telephone lines to meet demand during peak periods. The average number of people, shown in Full Time Equivalents, is given in the table below. Accurate figures before 2013 are not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>64.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>81.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>131.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 12:00:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

576805

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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 UK representation there is at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	45333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK is represented at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress by various members of the IUCN UK National Committee (IUCN NCUK). The IUCN NCUK is comprised of IUCN members in the United Kingdom and its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and also represents the interests of its Members in the IUCN Pan European region. The Chair and Chief Executive from NCUK are both in attendance at the Congress.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/09/2016 10:25:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

576808

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Bovine Tuberculosis
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of badgers to be culled in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	45110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be removed in licensed badger control areas during 2016 can be found on the gov.uk website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-to-natural-england-on-setting-minimum-and-maximum-numbers-of-badgers-to-be-controlled-in-2016" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-to-natural-england-on-setting-minimum-and-maximum-numbers-of-badgers-to-be-controlled-in-2016</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 12:43:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

576809

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Birds of Prey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release by Natural England of 29 July 2016 to issue a licence permitting the control of up to 10 buzzards, if her Department will take steps to ensure that the granting of such licences does not endanger the buzzard population.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	45114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Buzzards are now widespread in England, with over 60,000 pairs in the UK (British Trust for Ornithology). The removal of a small number of birds will have no impact on the national population. Moreover, Natural England would not license any activity that would adversely affect the conservation status of a species.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/09/2016 09:54:20 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

576810

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme and LEADER Programme
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 her Department's policy is on future funding of the LEADER and Countryside Stewardship schemes; what discussions she has had with her Ministerial colleagues on the funding of those schemes; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	45127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Scunthorpe, Nic Dakin, on 8 September 2016, PQ UIN44637. The Government’s announcement ahead of the Autumn Statement will also cover LEADER.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 12:03:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

576813

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	Bovine Tuberculosis
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 she is taking to eradicate bovine tuberculosis.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	45173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Our comprehensive strategy to eradicate bovine tuberculosis includes strengthening cattle testing and movement controls, improving biosecurity on farm and when trading cattle, and badger control in areas where TB is rife.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently launched a public consultation and a call for views on proposals for additional cattle measures. These proposals follow enhancements made in April 2016, including post-movement testing of cattle entering the Low Risk Area and a more sensitive TB testing regime for infected herds in the High Risk Area. Natural England has this year authorised licensed badger control in ten areas where TB is rife.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 14:05:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman