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228537

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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	Pay
	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 the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within her Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	228310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the average hourly rate of pay for employees who have declared their ethnicity in core-Defra at each grade identified as (a) white and (b) from a black, Asian, or other minority ethnic group (BAME).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Grade</p></td><td><p>(a) White</p></td><td><p>(b) BAME</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AA</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>£11.79</p></td><td><p>£12.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>£13.93</p></td><td><p>£15.15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>£16.90</p></td><td><p>£17.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Faststream</p></td><td><p>£15.30</p></td><td><p>£15.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>£20.48</p></td><td><p>£20.99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grade 7</p></td><td><p>£27.58</p></td><td><p>£28.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grade6</p></td><td><p>£33.34</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS</p></td><td><p>£41.36</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data has not been provided where there are fewer than 5 employees in a group.</p><p>This includes employees at AA, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £9.09; Grade 6, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £33.42; and at SCS, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £43.33.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 24/03/2015 11:05:32 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

228540

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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	Waste Disposal: Fires
	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 fires were recorded at regulated and unregulated recycling or waste sites in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	228494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The table below summarises the number of incidents recorded by the Environment Agency as fires at waste management premises for 2013 and 2014. The figures include all incidents ranging from serious impact to no impact.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type of waste management site </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regulated</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>249</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unregulated</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>276</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>311</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures differ from those provided in response to a parliamentary question on 12 February last year. The response to that question stated that there were a total of 295 fires at both regulated and unregulated waste management sites in 2013. The difference is due to some duplication of incident reporting in the previous answer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 24/03/2015 09:50:45 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

228538

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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	Living Wage
	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 15 December 2014 to the hon. Member for Washington and Sunderland West to Question 217417, how many of the 215 people paid less than the living wage employed on two major contracts reside in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Murphy
	uin	228336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 24/03/2015 09:28:22 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	595 label Biography information for Mr Jim Murphy

228135

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	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	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 steps have been taken to monitor current levels of air pollution from Central and Eastern Europe in the South and East of England.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
	uin	228094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Defra uses both monitoring and modelling to assess air quality in the UK. Measurement data is updated hourly on our website at:</p><p><a href="http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk" target="_blank">http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a> for the 142 automatic monitoring sites across the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While Defra does not monitor air pollution in central and eastern Europe, the UK air quality forecast provided by the Met Office takes account of European emissions and forecast weather conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra also operates a network that measures particle numbers, size and composition, providing additional information about sources of particulate pollution. Information is available at: <a href="http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/networks/network-info?view=particle" target="_blank">http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/networks/network-info?view=particle</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 23/03/2015 11:41:41 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

227803

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	Staff
	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 and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	227959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of core Defra employees in each ethnicity category as at 28 February 2015. This includes people who have declared their ethnicity status only.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No. of staff</p></td><td><p>1237</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>1478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>83.7%</p></td><td><p>6.2%</p></td><td><p>8.0%</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 15:28:02 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

227801

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	227825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Core Defra staff are not authorised to download and use any news applications on their work-provided phones and tablets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 15:25:14 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227292

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	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	Research
	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 amount her Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	227559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts set out details of spend on research and development by the Core Department and its agencies, and total Departmental spend each year. The table below shows the information requested in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2013-14 (the last financial year for which a set of accounts has been published).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend on Research and Development (£000)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Total Departmental Spending</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>106,232</p></td><td><p>4.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>108,998</p></td><td><p>4.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>101,623</p></td><td><p>4.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>92,304</p></td><td><p>4.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 15:22:31 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

227293

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	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	Antisocial Behaviour: Noise
	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 plans to take to protect residents from persistently noisy neighbours.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	227573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Noise Act 1996 already provide local authorities with the necessary powers to tackle problem neighbour noise. This legislation allows local authorities to serve notices to stop the noise and prevent it from happening again.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has also introduced more effective anti-social behaviour powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. One of the powers is the Community Protection Notice which the police and local authorities can use to tackle behaviour that is having a detrimental effect on the quality of life of the community, is persistent or continuing and is unreasonable. In addition, apart from the statutory guidance, the Government has also published an information note highlighting how the new powers can be used to deal with noisy neighbours.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 11:39:25 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

227518

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2015
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Off-payroll Working
	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 staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts set out the number of off-payroll workers employed by the Core Department, its Executive Agencies and Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies each year. The table below shows the information requested in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2013-14 (the last financial year for which a set of accounts has been published).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Defra</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Executive Agencies:</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (see Note)</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Food and Environment Research Agency (see Note)</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rural Payments Agency</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Veterinary Medicines Directorate</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies:</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (see Note)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consumer Council for Water</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environment Agency</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>349</p></td><td><p>687</p></td><td><p>764</p></td><td><p>403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Nature Conservation Committee</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marine Management Organisation</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Forest Company</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Natural England</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sea Fish Industry Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note: the figures for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency reflect the organisation’s then structure, which was created from a merger of the Animal Health agency and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency on 1 April 2011. The figures do not reflect the restructuring into the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 1 October 2014, when some areas of work undertaken previously by Fera (Food and Environment Research Agency) were brought into the new organisation.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 11:36:06 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227519

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2015
	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 Parks
	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 factors her Department uses to determine the relative level of central Government funding given to each National Park authority; and what weight is given in that process to the minimum funding required to operate planning functions in the least well-funded National Parks.
	tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
	tabling member printed	Sir Alan Beith
	uin	227721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Overall funding levels for national park authorities are calculated based on a range of demographic and other factors relevant to delivery of the national parks’ statutory purposes and their planning function. Factors include the size of the park, the population and the number of planning cases. Within that, national park authorities are independent bodies and it is for them to decide how best to allocate their funding to deliver their functions and the locally determined priorities as set out in their Management Plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 11:26:56 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	513 label Biography information for Lord Beith