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767493

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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: Imports
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 his Department has made of the number of puppies being smuggled illegally into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	106485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>We take the issue of illegal trafficking of puppies very seriously, and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) are gathering intelligence to help us understand the size of the problem regarding puppy smuggling.</p><p>Defra and APHA work constructively with other government agencies and charities to share intelligence on illegal movements of pet animals. APHA has established an intelligence team which will gather data, intelligence and information on illegal movement of dogs and puppies and, as appropriate, share with enforcement bodies.</p><p>APHA works in partnership with the Dogs Trust and Kent County Council to identify and seize dogs and puppies which were not compliant with the requirements as part of a pilot project at Dover responding to intelligence on potential non-compliance. Approximately 600 puppies have been seized and taken into quarantine since the initiative began in December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/10/2017 12:58:58 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

671723

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
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	Beverage Containers: Recycling
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 (a) she and (b) Ministers and officials of her Department have had with coffee chain companies on the disposal and recycling of take-away cups.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	59662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>This Government remains committed to recycling and will be consulting widely on our plans for resources, waste and recycling in developing our 25 year environment plan engagement framework. We also continue to work with businesses, local authorities and waste managers on policies and initiatives to encourage recycling.</p><p> </p><p>Defra Ministers, officials and I have had a number of discussions with a range of stakeholders in drawing up our 25 year environmental plan and in developing ongoing policy; as part of these discussions, companies and representative trade organisations will raise issues and ideas about specific products or treatments.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our ongoing stakeholder engagement, Defra officials were involved in discussions regarding the development of the Paper Cup Recycling and Recovery Group Manifesto and attended its launch on 27 June 2016. This manifesto aims to significantly increase paper cup recycling rates by 2020 and includes coffee chain companies as signatories.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/01/2017 15:46:39 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

671724

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
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	Beverage Containers: Recycling
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 improve recycling solutions for polyethylene-lined paper cups.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	59663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for West Ham, Lyn Brown, on 9 September 2016, PQ UIN 44382.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/01/2017 15:48:11 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

642248

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
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	Aviation: 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, what recent discussions she has had with the Department for Transport on giving the Environmental Agency responsibility as an independent aviation air quality authority.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	54258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>Defra has had no discussions with the Department for Transport about giving the Environment Agency responsibility as an independent aviation air quality authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 25/11/2016 09:31:20 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

628135

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
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	Company Cars: Exhaust Emissions
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 she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential effect on air quality standards of proposals to increase the tax on low and ultra-low emission company car drivers in the HM Revenue and Customs consultation on salary sacrifice for the provision of benefits-in-kind, published on 10 August 2016.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	51858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>Defra officials meet regularly with HM Treasury to discuss a variety of measures relating to air quality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 10/11/2016 12:05:24 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

625944

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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	Soil: Carbon
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 she has had with her French counterpart on that country's global initiative to increase carbon levels in soil.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	51275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State discussed this Government’s support for the COP21 Paris initiative to promote carbon levels in soil with French Agriculture, Agri-Food and Forestry Minister Stéphane Le Foll at a ‘Climate Friendly Landscapes’ meeting hosted by the Prince of Wales' International Sustainability Unit on 26 October.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 07/11/2016 11:42:03 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

600628

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
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: Insurance
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 assessment she has made of the (a) availability and (b) affordability of contents insurance for renters in at-risk flood areas.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	48461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>Content insurance is widely available to tenants in high flood risk areas, with the Flood Re scheme helping this to be affordable. The Scheme has provided backing to 53,000 policies since its launch in April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/10/2016 14:49:49 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

579492

registered interest
date	09/09/2016
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	Animal Products: Trade
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 her Department is doing with other countries to prevent the (a) global trade in illegal hunting trophies and (b) trade and importation of illegal hunting trophies in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	45842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to working with our international partners to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, including trade in illegal hunting trophies. This is why we have invested £13 million through our illegal wildlife trade Challenge Fund to support international projects, reduce global demand for illegal wildlife products, strengthen law enforcement and help rebuild affected communities. We have been a leading player in global efforts to date, hosting the ground-breaking London Conference in 2014 and supporting follow up conferences in Botswana in 2015 and Vietnam in 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Importing controls are implemented at an EU-wide level and the UK works with other EU Member States to agree a collective approach, ensuring that illegal hunting trophies are not imported into the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has been actively involved in the development of a proposal for enhanced global rules on hunting trophies to be considered at the 17th Conference of CITES Parties, which takes place from 24 September to 5 October. The proposal aims to enhance existing guidelines to ensure that robust controls are in place to assess the sustainability of hunting on the population of the species in question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/09/2016 15:38:01 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

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

455726

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
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	Animal Welfare: Trapping
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 her Department has made of the potential merits of stricter regulations on the use of snares and traps.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	28746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Regulation of traps and snares balances the welfare needs of the trapped animal against the need for effective methods of killing or taking target species.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to snares, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Chesterfield, Toby Perkins MP, on 11 February 2016, PQ UIN 25710.</p><p> </p><p>As for other kinds of trap, we already ensure all new spring traps are tested for humaneness before they are approved for use and the use of any trap is prohibited against certain species of European or national concern, for example the European otter and pine marten.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 02/03/2016 14:50:10 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden