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	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Plastics: Seas and Oceans
	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 progress the Government has made on international steps to tackle plastic pollution in the oceans; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	107387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>At the recent Our Ocean conference the UK made several voluntary commitments to help tackle marine plastic pollution. These included signing up to the UN’s Clean Seas campaign, the Global Partnership on Marine Litter and the Global Ghost Gear Initiative. These programmes aim to transform habits, practices, standards and policies around the globe to reduce marine plastic pollution and the harm it causes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/10/2017 14:52:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

769687

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Plastics
	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 his Department is taking to help reduce the use of plastic in (a) retail packaging and (b) food outlets.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	107386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson), on 13 September 2017, PQ UIN 8711.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/10/2017 11:13:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

769868

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Packaging
	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 his Department is taking to reduce the use of non-recyclable plastics and other packaging in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	107602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Our policies and regulations - such as the Packaging Waste Regulations - are designed to increase recycling and reduce the amount of packaging that ends up in the natural environment.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2016, the Waste and Resources Action Programme and an industry advisory group published a framework for greater consistency, encouraging councils to recycle a common set of materials, as well as setting out actions to rationalise packaging, particularly plastics, into items that can be collected for recycling while supporting innovation in packaging design.</p><p> </p><p>Almost all packaging is technically recyclable, although some local authorities and waste management companies choose not to collect some types of packaging for recycling for various reasons, including cost of investing in new machinery which can sort this packaging.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/10/2017 11:03:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

769686

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Tree Planting: Urban Areas
	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 his policy is on the planting of extra trees in towns and cities; and what provision he plans to make for additional local authority tree offices and other funding to manage those trees.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	107490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to planting one million trees in our towns and cities by 2022, reflecting our recognition of the important benefits they bring to the places where people live, work, and visit.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are giving millions of schoolchildren across England, mostly in urban areas, the chance to plant trees in their schools and communities as part of a Government-backed scheme, in partnership with the Woodland Trust and the Community Forest Trust.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/10/2017 10:57:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769867

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2017
	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	Flood Control: Greenwich
	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 funding has been approved for the relocation of flood barriers on the Bowring Sports Ground to make way for a free school; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	107526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has no record of any contact from the Education Skills Funding Agency prior to December 2015. The Environment Agency was contacted by the Education Skills Funding Agency in December 2015 regarding the potential purchase of land in Bowring Sports Ground to build a new school on the site.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency met the Education Skills Funding Agency in March 2016 to discuss their proposals and to provide planning advice. No change to the flood defences was proposed at that time. The proposal to relocate flood defences on the Bowring Sports Ground site was first put forward in June 2017 by Robert West Architects and discussions with them are ongoing.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Environment Agency requires developers to demonstrate that their proposals do not increase flood risk. The Environment Agency is a statutory consultee in the planning process. The Environment Agency will not support any application which does not include an adequate flood risk assessment. The Environment Agency will assess detailed proposals and a flood risk assessment in relation to this application, once provided by Robert West Architects.</p><p> </p><p>The developer will be liable for the costs of any modification to the flood defences.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 106497 106498 106499 question first answered 19/10/2017 11:45:45 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford