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641240

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Environment Protection: Public Consultation
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 her Department has for members of the public to contribute to the consultation on its 25 year plan for the natural environment.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	53904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The first step towards developing the plan will be to publish soon the framework which will be open to all to contribute. We will use the feedback from this to help develop the full plan itself next year.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/11/2016 11:45:26 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

641244

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Waste Disposal: Dudley
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 discussions her Department has had with the Environment Agency on removal of the mound of rubbish at the site operated by Rowan Oak Waste on Shaw Road, Dudley.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	54012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has taken enforcement action against Rowanoak Waste Services Limited following poor compliance, including the exceedance of their legal waste quantities. On 29 April 2016 their environmental permit was revoked, preventing them from moving more waste to the site.</p><p>The revocation notice also required the removal of all waste on the site by 16 September 2016. Rowanoak Waste Services Limited failed to comply with this and the Environment Agency is now preparing to take further action against the company for non-compliance.</p><p>The Environment Agency always looks to take prosecution action against an operator who is found to have committed a criminal offence and will always seek to ensure that it remediates any environmental impact caused by its illegal activity.</p><p>The Environment Agency is working with the landowner, Dudley Borough Council and the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service to minimise pollution and fire risk at the site and to have it cleared as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 54013 54014 question first answered 24/11/2016 15:35:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

641245

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Waste Disposal: Dudley
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 information her Department holds on whether the Environment Agency plans to impose penalties on the operators of the Rowan Oak Waste site on Shaw Road, Dudley, for failing to dispose of waste.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	54013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has taken enforcement action against Rowanoak Waste Services Limited following poor compliance, including the exceedance of their legal waste quantities. On 29 April 2016 their environmental permit was revoked, preventing them from moving more waste to the site.</p><p>The revocation notice also required the removal of all waste on the site by 16 September 2016. Rowanoak Waste Services Limited failed to comply with this and the Environment Agency is now preparing to take further action against the company for non-compliance.</p><p>The Environment Agency always looks to take prosecution action against an operator who is found to have committed a criminal offence and will always seek to ensure that it remediates any environmental impact caused by its illegal activity.</p><p>The Environment Agency is working with the landowner, Dudley Borough Council and the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service to minimise pollution and fire risk at the site and to have it cleared as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 54012 54014 question first answered 24/11/2016 15:35:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

641246

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Waste Disposal: Dudley
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 information her Department holds on the steps taken by the Environment Agency to remove the mound of rubbish at the site operated by Rowan Oak Waste on Shaw Road, Dudley.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	54014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has taken enforcement action against Rowanoak Waste Services Limited following poor compliance, including the exceedance of their legal waste quantities. On 29 April 2016 their environmental permit was revoked, preventing them from moving more waste to the site.</p><p>The revocation notice also required the removal of all waste on the site by 16 September 2016. Rowanoak Waste Services Limited failed to comply with this and the Environment Agency is now preparing to take further action against the company for non-compliance.</p><p>The Environment Agency always looks to take prosecution action against an operator who is found to have committed a criminal offence and will always seek to ensure that it remediates any environmental impact caused by its illegal activity.</p><p>The Environment Agency is working with the landowner, Dudley Borough Council and the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service to minimise pollution and fire risk at the site and to have it cleared as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 54012 54013 question first answered 24/11/2016 15:35:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

641247

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Floods: Finance
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 17 November 2016 to Question 52825, what estimate she has made of the level of funding support received from HM Treasury for response and recovery activities relating to emergency events in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	54010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>Following the extreme flood events of the winters of 2013/14 and 2015/16, HM Treasury provided the following exceptional additional funding to meet costs of responding to the flooding; and repairing, restoring and maintaining critical flood defences:</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 - £30m</p><p>2014/15 - £180m</p><p>2015/16 - £85m</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/11/2016 16:58:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

643703

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Low Emission Zones
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 introduce an air quality national framework for low emission zones.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	907463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is not intending to introduce a national framework for Low Emission Zones but will introduce one for Clean Air Zones, the consultation for which was launched on 13 October. Clean Air Zones encompass the Low Emission Zone approach. They discourage the more polluting vehicles from entering the zone but they also focus wider action to improve air quality and accelerate the transition to a low carbon, low emission economy.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/11/2016 15:37:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

643704

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Sheep Dipping: Organophosphates
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 discussions she has had with the sheep dip sufferers support group on organophosphate poisoning.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	907462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>I met the Sheep Dip Sufferers Group in November last year. The concerns of the Sufferers Group were discussed in detail and we committed to providing information to the group, including the Government’s rationale for ending compulsory sheep dipping.</p><p> </p><p>This information was provided to Tom Rigby (co-ordinator of the Sheep Dip Sufferers Group) in May of this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 13:58:52 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

643705

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 ensure timely payments from the Rural Payments Agency.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	907461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The RPA has improved the Rural Payments service for 2016 and over 80% of BPS claims were submitted online this year.</p><p>This means the RPA has been able to focus on processing claims as quickly as possible in order to make payments to claimants from the opening of the payment window next month. They are aiming to pay 90% of claimants their BPS 2016 payment by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 14:00:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

638353

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
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, what representations her Department has received from the dairy industry since the March 2016 publication of the revised Eatwell Guide.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>I hold a quarterly meeting with DairyUK, NFU and AHDB Dairy to discuss key issues and opportunities for the UK dairy sector.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on Ministerial meetings with organisations is available on Gov.UK, as part of the quarterly transparency information.</p><p> </p><p>The Eatwell Guide is produced by Public Health England.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 17:38:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

637856

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 farmers had not received money due from the Rural Payments Agency under the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme by the end of 16 November 2016 in (a) England, (b) Cumbria and (c) Copeland parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	53351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>By 16 November, in addition to claims which the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) cannot pay due to legal reasons such as probate, all but 6 claimants had received a payment, and of those 6 none are in Cumbria or the Copeland constituency. This figure is an increase of 1 compared to the previously reported figure because the agency is completing routine final checks on nil value claims.</p><p> </p><p>The RPA said it would investigate BPS 2015 claims where there is a discrepancy between the claim information and that held on the Rural Payments Service through a planned reconciliation process. This started after the BPS 2016 application window and looked at an initial stock of 13,607 claims for England. The agency continues to review new queries and has identified 1,200 claims relating to common land, of these 386 are in Cumbria and 73 are in the Copeland constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2016 17:23:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed