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946936

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2018
	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	Marine Conservation Zones: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons it was decided (a) to include razorbills and (b) not to include common guillemots as an additional feature of the Cumbria Coast Marine Conservation Zone in the Government's June 2018 consultation on sites proposed for designation in the third tranche of Marine Conservation Zones.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
	uin	167342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The inclusion in Marine Conservation Zones of highly mobile species, such as seabirds, is considered where it can be demonstrated that it would help meet the conservation objectives for that species. Numbers of razorbill at this site have shown a significant decline in recent years and their inclusion is therefore warranted. Numbers of common guillemot, by contrast, have more than doubled at this site over the same period and it was therefore decided that there was insufficient justification to include them as a feature in this Marine Conservation Zone. We look forward to receiving views on our proposals through the consultation, which will inform our final decisions.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 11:45:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

964422

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Palm Oil
	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 he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by Imperial College London, entitled Palm oil supply chain complexity impedes implementation of corporate no-deforestation commitments, published in May 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	168885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of the report by Imperial College London entitled ‘<em>Palm oil supply chain complexities impedes implementation of corporate no-deforestation commitments.</em>’</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although we have no plans to formally assess the report, the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan makes clear the UK’s commitment to supporting the implementation of deforestation-free supply chains for key commodities, including palm oil, working with a broad range of stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are a co-signatory to the Amsterdam Declarations, which are political agreements that aim to support the implementation of private sector commitments on deforestation and sustainable palm oil. We are also a member of Tropical Forest Alliance 2020; a public-private co-operation working to help organisations achieve their deforestation-free commitment, eliminate illegality from supply chains and improve the quality and availability of deforestation and supply chain data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 14:46:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

947336

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	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 Plant Variety Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to maintain the responsibilities and functions in the UK of the Community Plant Variety Office (a) when the UK leaves the EU and (b) in the event of the UK leaving the EU in 2019 without agreement; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	167969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>As a signatory to the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, the UK will continue to provide intellectual property protection through plant variety rights. We are considering the implications and possible options as part of our planning for, and negotiations on, the UK’s departure from the EU. In the event of leaving the EU without an agreement, existing EU plant variety rights will be made effective under UK legislation. New varieties after exit can be protected through the normal UK legislation and processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 refers to EU Plant Variety Rights and provides protection of intellectual property associated with the breeding of plant varieties. The regulation is not associated with ‘goods’ and as such would not be included in the envisioned common rule book.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 168103 question first answered 06/09/2018 11:36:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

947341

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	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 Plant Variety Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans for Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 to form part of the common rule book envisaged in the White Paper, The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union, published in July 2018, Cm 9593.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	168103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>As a signatory to the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, the UK will continue to provide intellectual property protection through plant variety rights. We are considering the implications and possible options as part of our planning for, and negotiations on, the UK’s departure from the EU. In the event of leaving the EU without an agreement, existing EU plant variety rights will be made effective under UK legislation. New varieties after exit can be protected through the normal UK legislation and processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 refers to EU Plant Variety Rights and provides protection of intellectual property associated with the breeding of plant varieties. The regulation is not associated with ‘goods’ and as such would not be included in the envisioned common rule book.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 167969 question first answered 06/09/2018 11:36:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

964395

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Fracking
	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 the report entitled Potential Air Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Extraction in the UK, published by his Department in 2018, for what reason the report was compiled in 2015 but not published until 2018.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	169190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>This was a routine report by the Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG). Although it was based on an assimilation of evidence that took place in 2015, the report itself was not finalised until 2017. It was prepared alongside other AQEG reports, for example on ultrafine particles and vegetation, which were produced on similar timelines. These reports were released together following publication of the government’s Clean Air Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 14:33:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

964137

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Crayfish
	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 he plans to publish the CEFAS report no. 5775 Controlling Invasive Crayfish on crayfish trapping.
	tabling member constituency	Newbury
	tabling member printed	Richard Benyon
	uin	169222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The report was published on 2 August and can be found by following the link below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&amp;Module=More&amp;Location=None&amp;ProjectID=18605&amp;FromSearch=Y&amp;Publisher=1&amp;SearchText=crayfish&amp;SortString=ProjectCode&amp;SortOrder=Asc&amp;Paging=10" target="_blank">Control of Invasive Species of Crayfish - WC1066</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 16:23:42 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon

964126

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Desalination
	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 plans his Department has to support the construction of more water desalination plants in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Waveney
	tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
	uin	169345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is developing a national policy statement for water resources infrastructure. This will set out the need for, and streamline the delivery of, nationally significant water resources infrastructure, such as reservoirs, water transfers and desalination plants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 12:00:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

964293

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Nappies: Waste Disposal
	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 25 July 2018 to Question 165481, what the outcomes were of his recent meeting with the Nappy Alliance; and if he or other Ministers of his Department will meet with the Nappy Alliance again to learn more about reusable nappy products.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	169121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>Reusable nappies make a valuable contribution to reducing residual waste that has to be disposed of to landfill or incineration. Officials from Defra’s waste and recycling team met representatives from the Nappy Alliance on 13 June. They discussed the benefits of reusable nappies in the context of single-use plastic and reducing waste. There are no plans for further meetings.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 11:39:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

965015

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	British Overseas Territories: Nature Conservation
	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 plans he has to continue to provide funding for conservation projects in overseas territories once EU funding ends after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	169226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given on 5 September 2018, PQ UIN167884.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 14:29:35 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

947041

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2018
	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: Greater London
	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 further steps he plans to take to improve air quality for residents of London.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	167189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Mayor of London is responsible for air quality in the capital and has reserve powers under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 to reflect this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These powers enable the Mayor to take a broad range of actions, particularly in relation to transport – this includes the introduction of the “T-Charge” and the proposed Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Mayor of London has received a comprehensive funding settlement from the Government, worth more than £5 billion, which includes measures to deliver compliance with air quality limits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>London and Londoners have also received £137million funding from the government’s £3.5 billion plan to improve air quality and reduce harmful emissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has also published the Clean Air Strategy consultation setting out a national approach to tackling air pollution focused on broader emissions beyond road transport aiming to cut air pollution and save lives. This will have beneficial effects across the country, including in London.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has also published a consultation on cleaner domestic burning of solid fuels and wood. This focuses on a range of options to phase out the sale of the most polluting fuels therefore enabling consumers to switch to less polluting alternatives. The deadline for responses is 12 October.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 06/09/2018 11:41:16 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell