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724556

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	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	Microplastics: Animal Welfare
	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 18 April 2017 to Question 69988, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the effect of microplastics on the welfare of land animals.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	72012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

724557

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	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	Ivory: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2017 to Question 69979, for what reason that Answer does not refer to any assessment of the effectiveness of the ban on the sale of antique ivory objects made after 1947.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	72014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

105931

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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	Mobile Phones
	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 her Department spent on iPhones in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
	tabling member printed	John Woodcock
	uin	213156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>iPhones are not approved devices for use in Core Defra. The Department has therefore incurred no spend.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/11/2014 14:25:40 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

177850

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	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
	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 she has made of the proportion of the UK covered by woodland in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	223496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Woodland statistics are published annually by the Forestry Commission. Figures published each year for the last ten years are reproduced in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Woodland Area (000 ha)</p></td><td><p>% Woodland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 <sup>1,2</sup></p></td><td><p>3,138</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 <sup>1,2</sup></p></td><td><p>3,127</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 <sup>1,2</sup></p></td><td><p>3097</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>3078</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>2846</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2841</p></td><td><p>11.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2841</p></td><td><p>11.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2837</p></td><td><p>11.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2829</p></td><td><p>11.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2825</p></td><td><p>11.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004 <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2817</p></td><td><p>11.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>1. Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are based on data obtained from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) and adjusted for new planting, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland recently converted to another land use.</em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>2. Figures for Northern Ireland are obtained from the Northern Ireland Woodland Register.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>3. Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are based on 2010 data obtained from the National Forest Inventory and adjusted for new planting, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland recently converted to another land use. The NFI did not include Northern Ireland.</em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>4. Non-FC woodland figures for 2004-2009 for England, Wales and Scotland are based on the 1995-99 National Inventory of Woodland and Trees (NIWT) and adjusted for new planting and sales of FC woodland, but at present no adjustment is made for woodland converted to another land-use. The NIWT did not include Northern Ireland.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 09/02/2015 17:42:16 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

177841

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	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	Wind Power
	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 environmental effects of the development of onshore wind power.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Iain McKenzie
	uin	223443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Wind power will make a significant contribution to the UK meeting its renewable energy and climate change targets. However, development has to be in the right place. Government planning guidance therefore makes it clear that the need for renewable energy should not automatically override concerns about local impacts. When applications for wind turbines are determined, the impacts on matters such as ecology, noise, landscape, heritage and amenity are considered.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 09/02/2015 16:32:36 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4246 label Biography information for Iain McKenzie

101853

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	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: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she next plans to meet farming organisations in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	212547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>We work closely with farming organisations across the UK and look forward to meeting representatives in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 03/11/2014 17:20:53 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

106286

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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, when the replacement of the Rural Development Programme for England's Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme will be announced; and when funding applications will be invited.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
	uin	213454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>We will provide further information before the end of December on the new scheme that we plan to open in 2015 to help farming and forestry businesses become more productive.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 10/11/2014 12:48:53 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

173391

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	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	Community Impact Bucks
	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 make funds available to Community Impact Bucks for 2015-16 and 2016-17 to replace the funding that has been withdrawn from Action with Communities in Rural England from March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
	uin	220538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>We value the work that the Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) network does at the local level to ensure the rural voice is heard and to inspire community action. Future funding is being carefully considered and no final decision has yet been made.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/01/2015 11:58:04 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

173994

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	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	Rural Areas: 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 assessment she has made of the potential effect of the loss of state funding by the ACRE Network on that organisation's ability to deliver support to rural communities.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	221041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>We value the work that the ACRE Network does at the local level to ensure the rural voice is heard and to inspire community action. Future funding is being carefully considered and no final decision has yet been made. No assessment has therefore been prepared.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 20/01/2015 15:07:47 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

168647

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Wildlife: Smuggling
	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 monitor the use of the internet for wildlife-related criminal activity.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
	uin	217643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>We recognise that the internet can be used as a route for wildlife-related criminal activity, including illegal trade in species covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The illegal trade in CITES species is one of the six UK wildlife crime priorities and action to tackle such trade is spearheaded by the UK CITES Priority Delivery Group (CPDG) comprising Border Force, the Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit and the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU). Defra has provided additional funding to the NWCU this year to conduct research into wildlife crime on the internet and we will be considering the findings of their report.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Powers are available in the UK to tackle illegal internet trade in wildlife products under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (COTES) legislation. This legislation is currently under review. The review will consider trends in illegal trade and the enforcement practices needed to combat this, including the increasing use of the internet to conduct trade in wildlife products.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More broadly the National Crime Agency (NCA) focuses on the relentless disruption of serious and organised criminals and those that present the highest risk to the UK and its communities. Where high risk organised criminals are engaged in illegal wildlife trade the NCA will lead, support or coordinate an appropriate level of response. That response could include the NCA’s niche capabilities such as the National Cyber Crime Unit or its global network of liaison officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 15/12/2014 16:06:50 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones