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437150

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	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, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Environment Agency's 2014 Long Term Investment Scenarios recommended optimum overall investment in flood defences of £750m to £800m each year to 2019-20; and whether she expects that level of overall investment to be achieved.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	19675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Environment Agency's Long Term Investment Scenarios report represents the best currently available projections of potential long term costs to manage flood and coastal risk under a range of scenarios reflecting future uncertainties. It will be kept under review as any further evidence emerges.</p><br /><p>The report confirms that current Government investment plans to 2020, together with forecast local contributions, are in line with the level the Environment Agency’s assessment indicates is necessary to reduce overall flood risk <del class="ministerial">by 5%</del>.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 15:36:34 question first ministerially corrected 16/12/2015 16:15:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 35407 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

436237

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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	Lead: Ammunition
	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 much was spent on lead ammunition by her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies in each year since 1999.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	19242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Defra was created in 2001. It is therefore not possible to provide an answer in respect of the years prior to this. Natural England was established on 1 October 2006, so no data is available until the 2006-07 financial year.</p><br /><p>The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has identified that it has spent £300 on lead ammunition in the past three years, but is unable to provide a breakdown by year. Prior to this, the shooting of pests was outsourced and Kew is unable to identify the cost of ammunition provided through this service.</p><br /><p>Financial records do not always specify the type of ammunition purchased or the material from which it was made. Our records – with the caveats above – imply that Natural England has spent an average of £253 per year on lead shot since records began.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 12:53:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

436246

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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	Polecats
	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 control the number of polecats.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	19101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Wildlife management is a devolved matter, so I can only respond on behalf of England.</p><br /><p>Defra's general policy is that individuals should be free to manage wildlife within the law. In the first instance controlling polecats is the responsibility of the owner or occupier of the property where the problem occurs.</p><br /><p>Polecats are protected by the Bern Convention, which means the UK is obliged to protect their populations from unsustainable management and methods of control which are indiscriminate or capable of causing their local disappearance or serious disturbance. We meet our obligations through the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.</p><br /><p>Whilst polecats are not protected from killing or taking, those who wish to kill or take polecats may not use methods prohibited by those pieces of legislation (for example poisons, traps, snares or nets), unless they acquire a licence from Natural England permitting them to do so.</p><br /> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 12:59:21 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

437151

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	Flood Control: 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, what measures in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 will affect the level of funding for flood defences up to 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	19676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>In the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 we reiterated our commitment to invest £2.3 billion in more than 1,500 projects by 2021. This funding will help better protect 300,000 homes. We also announced our commitment to protect flood maintenance spending in real terms over this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 15:40:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

437359

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2015
	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	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, how many times the National Wildlife Crime Unit has assisted police in wildlife crime investigations in (a) London and (b) the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	19720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North, Alex Cunningham, on 17 November 2015, PQ UIN16012.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 15:26:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq