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101850

	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	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, what chemical additives with a prospective use in hydraulic fracturing have been assessed for toxicological risk and other prospective health hazards by the Joint Agencies Groundwater Directive Advisory Group (JAGDAG); and if he will publish the URL where the minutes of JAGDAG meeting may be found.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	212543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>In England, for the purposes of the Water Framework Directive and Groundwater Directive, the Environment Agency has the responsibility for making determinations of substances that may be hazardous in groundwater. It will not permit the use of ‘hazardous substances’ for any activity, including hydraulic fracturing, where they would or might enter groundwater and cause pollution.</p><p>Hazardous substances are defined as those that are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic, or, for the Directives, where there are ‘equivalent levels of concern’. The Joint Agencies Groundwater Directive Advisory Group (JAGDAG) carries out peer reviews of these determinations, before recommendations are then put to public consultation. Substances that were proposed for use for hydraulic fracturing of shales in Lancashire have been assessed and were determined as non-hazardous. These were consulted on in 2012 following peer review by JAGDAG.</p><p>Information about JAGDAG, including minutes of meetings, can be found at: <a href="http://www.wfduk.org/stakeholders/jagdag-work-area-0" target="_blank">http://www.wfduk.org/stakeholders/jagdag-work-area-0</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 05/11/2014 17:59:21 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

165871

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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	Plastic Bags
	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 guidance her Department plans to publish on the purpose to which proceeds of the single-use plastic bag charge can be put; and when that guidance will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	215978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Regulatory guidance will be published once the legislation has been made. There is an expectation that the proceeds of the charge will be donated to good causes and retailers will be required to report centrally on proceeds. As the Climate Change Act 2008 does not include powers for the Government to provide directions concerning the use of the proceeds, neither the legislation nor the regulatory guidance will mandate a particular use of the proceeds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 01/12/2014 13:40:12 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

226004

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	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	Policy
	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 policies contained in the 2010 Coalition Agreement and falling under her Department's responsibilities have not yet been implemented; and what the reasons are for each such policy's non-implementation.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	226774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to Departmental Business Plans which record all commitments, timescales for completion and progress against them. The Business Plans are fully transparent and are available at: <a href="http://www.transparency.number10.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.transparency.number10.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 12/03/2015 16:20:54 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

647704

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2016
	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
	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 her Department has made of the implications for her policies on flooding and land use of the Green Alliance Policy Insight of November 2016, entitled Smarter flood risk management in England.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	55376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government notes the Green Alliance report’s focus on flood prevention, including the use of natural measures and the whole catchment approach.</p><p> </p><p>A combination of measures are needed to manage flood risk, including upstream activities to store or slow flood waters. The current Countryside Stewardship Scheme includes land management measures that help to prevent flooding. Our exit from the EU provides an opportunity to consider how best future agriculture and environmental policy can contribute to flood risk management. The Government recently announced £15m specifically for natural flood management schemes across England. This builds on demonstration projects at Pickering in North Yorkshire, Holnicote in Somerset and Upper Derwent, Derbyshire.</p><p> </p><p>They demonstrated that natural measures can be effective in helping to manage flood risk at a catchment scale, slowing the flow of water and reducing local impacts when carefully incorporated into a wider suite of catchment measures, but were unlikely to offer an alternative to conventional defences in areas of greatest risk.</p><p> </p><p>However, we refute the assertion that twice as much is spent on dealing with the after-effects of a flood than is spent on hard flood defences. In 2014/15, the year the report is referring to with respect to hard defences, of the £802.6m spent on flood risk management, £145m was for flood response and repair costs and £657.6m for routine flood risk management measures.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, in our current 6-year capital programme, we are investing £2.5 billion over six years on flood defences (up until 2021). This is a real terms increase in capital investment. We are exceeding our manifesto commitment by building 1,500 new flood defence schemes that will better protect 300,000 more homes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/12/2016 11:38:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

843891

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Hunting
	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 article on the Puckeridge Hunt in the Hertordshire Mercury published on 8 February 2018, whether he will (a) make an assessment of the risks of laying scent trails and (b) make and assessment of the potential merits of banning the laying of scent trails.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	128166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The Hunting Act 2004 came into effect on 18 February 2005 and bans all hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales, except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions set out in Schedule 1 to the Act. Many hunts have since turned to trail hunting as an alternative to live quarry hunting.</p><p> </p><p>The Government neither has plans to assess the risk of laying scent trails nor to assess the merits of banning the laying of scent trails. There are also no plans to assess the risks posed by hunting hounds using scents laid by trail hunts drifting across the transport network.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 128304 question first answered 26/02/2018 17:16:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

843892

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Hunting
	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 risks posed by hunting hounds using scents laid by trail hunts drifting across the transport network.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	128304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The Hunting Act 2004 came into effect on 18 February 2005 and bans all hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales, except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions set out in Schedule 1 to the Act. Many hunts have since turned to trail hunting as an alternative to live quarry hunting.</p><p> </p><p>The Government neither has plans to assess the risk of laying scent trails nor to assess the merits of banning the laying of scent trails. There are also no plans to assess the risks posed by hunting hounds using scents laid by trail hunts drifting across the transport network.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 128166 question first answered 26/02/2018 17:16:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

156252

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	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	Dogs: 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, what reports her Department has received of cruelty to animals in the trafficking of dogs from Eastern Europe to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	214826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Dogs Trust wrote to Defra Ministers on 13 November about their report <em>The Puppy Smuggling Scandal</em>. The report highlights that responsibility for stopping the illegal movement of puppies begins in the country where they are born. The UK Chief Veterinary Officer has written to the authorities in the countries highlighted in the report to remind them of their duty to ensure that the welfare of pets intended for sale is safeguarded. There is a robust checking regime for pets travelling into Great Britain. Every pet travelling with its owner on an approved route is checked for compliance with the pet travel regime and UK Border Force carry out a wide range of checks on vehicles arriving in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/11/2014 16:05:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

347767

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	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 badgers have been culled; and what the cost to the public purse is of the badger cull.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of badgers culled in 2014 was 341 in Somerset and 274 in Gloucestershire.</p><p>The costs for 2014 are still being collated and will be published in due course.</p><p>Bovine TB threatens the future of our beef and dairy industries and is estimated to cost the taxpayer £1 billion over the next 10 years. This is why we will continue to pursue our comprehensive strategy to eradicate TB in England by 2038.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/06/2015 11:02:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

388591

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	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	Burbot
	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 take steps to reintroduce the burbot into UK waters.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	6145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>Any burbot re-introduction to inland waters in England would be dependent on further research and an assessment of the associated risks and opportunities. Factors resulting in the loss of the burbot from UK waters in the first place would also need considering in order to determine whether they remain relevant, and whether current habitats In England are suitable for the species.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/07/2015 13:37:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416187

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Farmers: Bankruptcy
	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 number of farmers that have declared themselves bankrupt in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	8641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The number of compulsory liquidations for each of the last five years is shown below. These data are for England and Wales, separate data are not available for England. They are for the Standard Industrial Classification code covering crop and animal production and hunting (on a commercial basis for food, fur etc.)[1].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that these are experimental statistics i.e. new official statistics that are undergoing evaluation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Company liquidations, both voluntary and compulsory</p></td><td><p>Bankruptcies where the individuals were self employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/insolvency-statistics-april-to-june-2015</p><p> </p><p>[1] Excludes hunting for sport or recreational activities, and fishing</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/09/2015 16:25:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn