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391770

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Assets
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 total value was of her Department's flood and coastal erosion risk management assets in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and what estimate she has made of the likely value of such assets in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The last full valuation of Environment Agency maintained flood and coastal erosion risk management infrastructure assets was done in 2010. They were valued at approximately £24 billion.</p><p>There are currently no immediate plans to revalue the assets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/09/2015 11:29:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391771

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Arable 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 guidance her Department makes available to farmers on the management of arable field margins to provide benefits for wildlife.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	8343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Defra provides guidance to farmers and other land managers on the management of arable field margins as part of agri-environment schemes such as Environmental Stewardship. The new Countryside Stewardship scheme will continue and enhance this guidance.</p><p>Farmers not wanting to sign up to an agri-environment scheme can obtain advice from a variety of sources, including the Campaign for the Farmed Environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/09/2015 11:25:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

391772

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Nitrogen Dioxide: Death
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 her Department has made of the national annual mortality burden of nitrogen dioxide.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) is currently considering how to quantify the association between long-term average concentrations of ambient nitrogen dioxide and mortality in the UK and intends to publish its views in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A COMEAP working group has provided interim recommendations to Defra on methods for use in quantifying health benefits associated with reductions in nitrogen dioxide. We are considering these as part of the evidence base being used to develop the plans to bring the UK into compliance with EU limits for nitrogen dioxide.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 08/09/2015 16:24:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391773

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Assets
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 change was in the value of her Department's flood and coastal erosion risk management assets in each of the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the likely change in that value in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The last full valuation of Environment Agency maintained flood and coastal erosion risk management infrastructure assets was done in 2010. They were valued at approximately £24 billion.</p><p>There are currently no immediate plans to revalue the assets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/09/2015 11:40:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391774

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Air Pollution
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 Supreme Court judgment in the case of R (on the application of ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what date she plans to publish an updated consultation on local air quality management.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish an updated consultation on local air quality management this autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/09/2015 10:30:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391775

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Forests: Sales
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 total value was of public forest estate land sold in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and what estimate she has made of the likely value of such land sold in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The values of public forest estate land sold in:</p><p> </p><p>· 2010-11 was £12.7m</p><p> </p><p>· 2011-12 was £5.6m</p><p> </p><p>· 2012-13 was £0.4m</p><p> </p><p>· 2013-14 was £0.43m and,</p><p> </p><p>· 2014-15 was £0.28m</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We expect a broadly similar pattern of land disposal and acquisition to continue. This has resulted in a small net gain of public forest estates in recent years. No estimate of any future sales of any part of the Public Forest Estate has been made.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/09/2015 10:32:04 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391776

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Integrated Administration and Control System
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 her Department's news story, Environment Secretary calls for fewer inspections to make CAP simpler for farmers, published on 21 July 2015, what the scope is and what the evidential basis is for her call for a review of the Integrated Administration and Control System.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Our priority is a review of the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) to ensure inspections, penalties and controls are proportionate to the EU Fund, and costs to Member States' implementation. There are two key areas that underpin IACS that can help achieve this ambition: a simplification of the inspections regime to make it more proportionate and risk-based, whilst maintaining an effective fraud deterrent; and a more pragmatic and proportionate penalties and control regime. This will help streamline the Common Agricultural Policy by reducing overall administrative burden and be fairer for farmers.</p><p>The European Commission has a requirement to review the Greening Ecological Focus Area requirements in 2016 and we expect work to commence in the autumn of this year. UK Ministers have asked the Agriculture Commissioner to extend his review to also cover the other elements of the Greening requirements, in particular the Crop Diversification requirement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, we continue to develop our underpinning evidence base.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 8340 8361 8362 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:57:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391777

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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
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 potential effect of the six-year flood and coastal erosion investment programme on risk of loss of life from flooding.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Assessments of the impact of flood and coastal erosion defence investments on risk to life from flooding are made on an individual project basis. Defra has provided guidance on how this should be done based on factors, such as the vulnerability of the population; the depth and speed of onset of a flood; and the timeliness of flood warnings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/09/2015 10:34:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391778

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Climate Change
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 full-time equivalent staff were working on climate change adaptation in her Department in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and if she will estimate the likely number of such staff in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Adaptation is embedded as an integral part of policy across Defra and all levels of Government and within a broad range of programmes and activities that support and build the UK’s resilience to climate change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra, as the lead Department, maintains a core adaptation team that supports the implementation of the Government’s responsibilities for climate change adaptation under the Climate Change Act 2008. Resources allocated to this support role vary according to our position in the five-year cycle set out under the Act and the progress we have made in embedding adaptation within Government policies, programmes and activities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The core Defra adaptation team delivered the very first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment in 2012 and the very first National Adaptation Programme (NAP) report in 2013. The focus since then has been on delivering those actions set out in the NAP report which has reduced the need for a large core team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The direct staff support that Defra and its agencies provided for climate change adaptation between 2010-11 and 2014-15 is set out in table A. These figures include Environment Agency staff delivering the Climate Ready Support Service between 2011-12 and 2014-15. It is not possible to predict the numbers of staff that will be required in these adaptation roles in future. It is also not possible to estimate the much larger numbers of full-time equivalent staff across all of the policies, programmes and activities of Defra and its agencies that directly or indirectly support our adaptation objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Table A</strong>: FTEs in Defra and its agencies working on climate change adaptation</p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Defra</p></td><td><p>37.0</p></td><td><p>32.5</p></td><td><p>23.5</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defra agencies</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td><td><p>54.2</p></td><td><p>55.3</p></td><td><p>51.4</p></td><td><p>40.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 8332 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:45:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

391779

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	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, with reference to her Department's news story, Environment Secretary calls for fewer inspections to make CAP simpler for farmers, published on 21 July 2015, what policies are included in the overhaul of the greening requirements she requested.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	8361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Our priority is a review of the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) to ensure inspections, penalties and controls are proportionate to the EU Fund, and costs to Member States' implementation. There are two key areas that underpin IACS that can help achieve this ambition: a simplification of the inspections regime to make it more proportionate and risk-based, whilst maintaining an effective fraud deterrent; and a more pragmatic and proportionate penalties and control regime. This will help streamline the Common Agricultural Policy by reducing overall administrative burden and be fairer for farmers.</p><p>The European Commission has a requirement to review the Greening Ecological Focus Area requirements in 2016 and we expect work to commence in the autumn of this year. UK Ministers have asked the Agriculture Commissioner to extend his review to also cover the other elements of the Greening requirements, in particular the Crop Diversification requirement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, we continue to develop our underpinning evidence base.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 8339 8340 8362 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:57:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner