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451436

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure
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 4 February 2016 to Question 903457, when the Spending Review settlement to her Department will be fully allocated.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	26558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>Budgets for 2016/17 to 2020/21 have not yet been finalised. Defra’s internal business planning process is still underway, and it would not, therefore, be appropriate at this time to comment on how particular policy areas may be affected.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/02/2016 16:32:07 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

451659

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	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 steps her Department plans to take with insurance companies to ensure that savings from Flood Re are passed on to consumers in flood-risk areas.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	26666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>Through the prices it charges insurers that cede policies to it, Flood Re will enable insurers to offer subsidised premiums, set by council Tax bands or equivalent, and reduced excesses to those at the highest risk of flooding. This is a competitive market and insurers are confident there will be a wide range of products available to consumers under Flood Re. It will remain important that households continue to shop around to ensure they can access the best prices.</p><p>Flood Re will regularly monitor the accessibility and affordability of insurance for those at high flood risk. Defra and Flood Re will evaluate the success of the scheme at least every five years.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/02/2016 16:37:05 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

451264

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Food: Waste
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 the Government is taking to encourage households to (a) reduce food waste and (b) increase awareness of food waste.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>Working through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), we are increasing awareness of food waste and helping households waste less and save money through the Courtauld Commitment and the Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) campaign. These have contributed to a 15% reduction in the amount of household food and drink waste between 2007 and 2012, from 8.3m tonnes to 7.0m tonnes.</p><p>WRAP is currently running the LFHW ‘10 cities’ campaign across the UK. The campaign includes activities in each city including cascade training, practical cookery classes and demonstrations, a kitchen skills programme, food champion networks and memorable experiential events.</p><p>WRAP is currently brokering a new agreement, Courtauld 2025, which is expected to be launched in March and will build on this progress.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/02/2016 15:23:24 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451265

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	National Wildlife Crime Unit
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 take steps to assure the future funding of the National Wildlife Crime Unit for the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to tackling wildlife crime. We are currently allocating our Spending Review settlement. Future funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit will be decided as part of that process.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/02/2016 12:10:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451266

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Fishing Vessels
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 take steps to reduce the administrative burden placed on fishing boats under 10 metres.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>I am keen to ensure that administrative burdens on the small-scale fleet are kept to the minimum possible, while still allowing for effective management of the fishery. Improvements to the services offered to fishermen by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) include:</p><ul><li>Simplification of the application process under the new European Maritime and Fisheries Fund scheme;</li><li>The introduction of exemptions under the Landings Obligation so that industry does not have to bear a disproportionate cost of disposing of unwanted fish;</li><li>Streamlining application forms to reduce size and make them easier to understand; and,</li><li>Moving to permanent vessel licences, eliminating the need to replace them every five years.</li></ul><p>Defra and the MMO will continue to engage with individuals within the ten metres and under fishing community in order to identify additional areas where administrative burdens might be reduced, or where other improvements could be made.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/02/2016 15:31:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451267

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Flood Control
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 speech at the Oxford Farming Conference on 6 January 2016, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on how responsibility for maintaining local watercourses will be shared.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Following discussions between Defra, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the Somerset Rivers Authority, the Secretary of State for DCLG confirmed that authorities in Somerset will be able to raise extra funding via a shadow precept from April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also provides funding to Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) to carry out their duties under the Flood and Water Management Act. As part of the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2016-17, the DCLG has proposed protecting LLFA funding in real terms over the life of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/02/2016 13:04:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451268

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Flood Control
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 speech at the Oxford Farming Conference on 6 January 2016, how she plans to ensure that effective national strategies on flooding and flood defences are created and maintained.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) has a duty under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to develop, maintain, apply and monitor a national flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy for England. The strategy was published in 2011. The Act also lays down that the EA must report to the Minister on flood and costal erosion risk management including the application of the national strategy. The EA publishes this report annually.</p><p>In addition Government is undertaking a National Flood Resilience Review which will assess how the country can be better protected from future flooding and increasingly extreme weather events. It will focus on four key areas: updating our climate modelling and stress-testing the nation’s resilience to flood risk; assessing the resilience of our important infrastructure like electricity substations; our temporary defences; and our future investment strategy. The Government launched a call for evidence on 2 February. The Review will align closely with Defra’s work on catchment-level management of the water cycle in the Government’s 25 year Environment Plan.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/02/2016 15:12:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451269

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Flood Control
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 speech at the Oxford Farming Conference on 6 January 2016, what additional powers she plans to grant to internal drainage boards and other groups to maintain local watercourses.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that flood risk management work should be carried out by those best placed to do it. The Environment Agency (EA) works in close partnership with Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and regularly discusses local watercourse maintenance plans with them, including to agree where IDBs could do work on the EA’s behalf, through public sector cooperation agreements. We will continue to discuss with IDBs and other groups where they could take on more responsibility and control of local flood risk management, including by facilitating flood risk partnerships.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/02/2016 12:57:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451271

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Recycling: Christchurch
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 financial contribution was to the Christchurch beach recycling scheme; and what assessment has been made of the cost-effectiveness of the works carried out under that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	26276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Christchurch Beach Recycling Scheme took place in 2015 and cost a total of £640,000. The EA contributed £585,000 under the repair and recovery programme allocation of funding as urgent works. The remainder of costs was met by Christchurch Borough Council. The project was assessed by the Environment Agency’s Large Project Review Group, which considered the Scheme’s viability, including cost benefit analysis.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/02/2016 11:57:28 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

451272

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Flood Control: Christchurch
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 research her Department has undertaken on the best available means of countering coastal flooding and beach erosion at Avon Beach, Christchurch.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	26277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Poole and Christchurch Bays Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) assessed options for managing the Avon beach and has set a policy of ‘holding the line’. This means its defences will be maintained and upgraded or replaced in their current position where funding permits. The SMP is available on line at:</p><p> </p><p>www.twobays.net/index.htm.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/02/2016 17:14:16 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope