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48811

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2014
	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
	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 has been made on the Lower Thames Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	196841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Further to my answer to the hon. Member for Windsor on Monday, 24 February 2014, Official Report column 83W, the Environment Agency is continuing to work with partners to develop the River Thames Scheme (Datchet to Teddington). This includes flood channel capacity improvements, property level protection measures and the construction of three new channels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Preparatory work, which is under way, includes establishing appropriate consents and approval needed with planning authorities, undertaking surveys needed to gain consents, and the development of a funding package with other risk management authorities. The Environment Agency is planning to submit its Strategic Outline Case for this project to Defra as part of the HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office's Major Projects Authority approvals process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency aims to start the work on improving weir capacity in 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Full appraisal and outline design of the flood channel and capacity improvements will commence this summer. It is expected that this will take three to four years to enable the proposal for the new flood channels to be submitted for planning consents and authorisations. It is estimated that the construction of the flood channel will commence in 2020 and will take five to six years to complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

48965

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	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 it his policy either that carrier bags containing a defined percentage of recycled plastics should be exempt from a levy on plastic bags, or that there should be no such exemptions at all.
	tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
	tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
	uin	196982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We do not intend to exclude plastic bags containing a defined percentage of recycled plastics from the proposed levy on plastic bags. In addition to measures to reduce usage, we will continue to encourage the recycling of plastic bags and we welcome efforts to increase their recycled content.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

48909

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	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 Environment Agency is taking to reduce the time taken to update its flooding maps after the completion of flood defence projects.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	197043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Environment Agency produces and publishes maps showing areas at risk of flooding from rivers and sea, surface water and reservoirs in England. It reviews and updates these maps on a quarterly basis to ensure they are based on the most recent local mapping and modelling information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure new flood risk management schemes are included in the map updates as soon as possible, the Environment Agency has put in place changes to speed up the update process, together with a new Key Performance Indicator (introduced in October 2013) specifying that maps showing the risk of flooding from rivers and sea should be updated within six months of completion of a scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Initial performance has been affected by the development and publication of new maps in December 2013 and by the winter floods, but significant efforts are being made to ensure that new defences will be taken into account more quickly in future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

48513

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 the Drinking Water Inspectorate has conducted any research into the level of psychotropic drugs in UK drinking water.
	tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
	tabling member printed	Jim Dobbin
	uin	196584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Drinking Water Inspectorate has published the results of a study looking at the risk of pharmaceuticals and health care products in drinking water. This included consideration of commonly used compounds that might be considered to be &quot;psychotropic&quot;.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>These include carbamezapine (an antiepileptic and mood stabilising medicine) and fluoxetine (antidepressant). Additionally, the study considered the illegal drug cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine (sold as a topical analgaesic). Cocaine and fluoxetine were not detected in any samples. Only minute traces of benzoylecgonine and carbamezapine at levels several orders of magnitude below therapeutic doses were found in a few samples. This study has informed water supply monitoring and risk management by water companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results of the study can be found on the Drinking Water Inspectorate's website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	446 label Biography information for Jim Dobbin

48520

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 Rural Development Programme for Forestry will announce its amount of funding and how it is to be used.
	tabling member constituency	Carlisle
	tabling member printed	John Stevenson
	uin	196503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We announced on 19 December 2013 that we will be investing over £3.5 billion in rural development schemes up to 2020, of which over £3 billion will be spent on improving the environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our responses to the consultation on implementing the new Common Agricultural Policy in England published on 19 December 2013 and 26 February 2014 provide further information on how rural development funding will be used. These are available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/common-agricultural-policy-reform-implementation-in-england" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/common-agricultural-policy-reform-implementation-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We also announced on 9 January 2014 that as part of the new Rural Development Programme we intend to offer tree planting grants in 2015 in advance of new environmental land management agreements coming into effect in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The new Rural Development Programme that we will submit to the European Commission shortly will confirm the amount of spending on forestry measures.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	3942 label Biography information for John Stevenson

48521

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 of new forest has been planted in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Carlisle
	tabling member printed	John Stevenson
	uin	196500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Up to date figures for woodland creation are expected to be available in June this year. In the meantime I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 24 February 2014, Official Report, column 100W, to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	3942 label Biography information for John Stevenson

48517

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 112W, on alcoholic drinks: counterfeit manufacturing, if he will carry out an assessment of the (a) scale of and (b) effect on public health of counterfeit alcohol in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	196515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I have been asked to reply.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are slightly different issues concerning illicit, i.e. untaxed, smuggled and diverted alcohol, or counterfeit alcohol, i.e. attempting to copy existing well-known brands.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) works in partnership with all United Kingdom local authorities to tackle the production, distribution and sale of illicit alcohol. HM Revenue and Customs also works collaboratively with other UK enforcement agencies to tackle this threat. The Department of Health is concerned with any implications of these issues for alcohol policy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The feasibility and costs of making any reliable estimates of the illicit and counterfeit alcohol markets would need to be considered. Government has no plans to make such estimates, other than the estimates published by HM Revenue and Customs for the illicit spirits market at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will jointly keep these issues under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

49491

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who is responsible for the collection and disposal of clinical waste from patients' homes.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	197597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Local authorities have duties to arrange for the collection and disposal of household waste. Clinical waste produced at domestic property is treated as household waste.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

48512

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 recent discussions he has had with Thames Water plc on (a) the change in capacity of the sewerage system in London required in consequence of (i) the Mayor of London's revised draft housing strategy and (ii) the projected change in the population of London by 2050 and (b) the role of the Thames Tideway Tunnel in meeting demand for capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Mr Nick Raynsford
	uin	196703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government has not held discussions with Thames Water on the details of the Mayor's revised draft housing strategy or any change in the capacity of London's sewerage systemrequired as a consequence of it. It is for Thames Water to take population changes into account as part of its business planning for the five-yearly price review process with Ofwat.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, Defra is working closely with Thames Water on enabling construction of the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The Tunnel will significantly reduce pollution in the Tidal Thames caused by sewage overflowing into the River Thames from combined sewage overflows when there is significant rainfall. It will also ensure that London's Victorian sewerage system, which is currently close to capacity at certain times of day, is able to meet the needs of the predicted increase in population in central London. This is set out in the economic and strategic case for the Tunnel, which can be viewed at the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	171 label Biography information for Mr Nick Raynsford

48514

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 he has made of the level of compliance with the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010; and what assessment he has made of changes in the level of the welfare of greyhounds used for racing since the coming into force of those Regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	196608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010 is due to be reviewed next year and this will provide us with an opportunity to see how well it has been working. Defra is working with key players in the industry and the welfare sectors to begin the review process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff