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date	19/11/2015
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: Permaculture
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 effectiveness of permaculture techniques; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	17035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Defra undertakes no specific research into the effectiveness of permaculture techniques, but the principles of permaculture are reflected in our current research programme. We are investing £4 million over three years in research through the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform to improve the environmental and economic performance of farming. This includes exploring integrated farm management techniques and landscape scale opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2015 11:03:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

429371

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Livestock: Antibiotics
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 reduce instances of antibiotic resistance developing in farmed animals; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	17036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>In September 2013, the government published the UK Five-Year Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Strategy. The strategy sets out three strategic aims to minimise the development of antibiotic resistance and protect human and animal health and welfare.</p><br /><p>In December 2014, the Government published the first annual progress report against the UK 5 year AMR Strategy[1]. The report sets out the work underway in each of the seven key areas, more specifically:</p><p>- infection, prevention and control,</p><p>- education and outreach,</p><p>- better access to surveillance data,</p><p>- strengthening International collaboration</p><p>The report also includes the further measures on animal health to be taken over the next four years to respond to the risk of AMR and to promote the responsible use of antibiotics.</p><br /><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-report-on-the-uk-five-year-amr-strategy-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-report-on-the-uk-five-year-amr-strategy-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/11/2015 11:15:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham