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759195

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Fly-tipping and Litter
	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 the Government has made of the capacity of local authorities to respond to incidents of littering and fly-tipping
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	9855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>The majority of local authority spending is financed by non-ringfenced income, which councils themselves decide how to spend. The Government has not made an assessment of the capacity of local authorities to respond to incidents of littering and fly-tipping. Local authorities have responsibility for tackling littering and fly-tipping and it is up to them to decide how best to do this and how to prioritise it against the provision of other local services.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 15/09/2017 10:16:26 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

758694

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	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	Environment Protection
	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 ensure that Government funding for the formed environment is invested to preserve the standard of water, soil and landscapes and to mitigate climate change.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	9404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Agriculture and land management is key to the environment and the maintenance and improvement of our iconic landscapes. Our policy framework will respect the work of farmers and support environmental goods.</p><p> </p><p>Continued support is important, and so is reform. We need to take the opportunity that being outside the Common Agricultural Policy will give us to use public money to reward environmentally responsible land use.</p><p> </p><p>We have no intention of weakening our current environmental protections. We want to ensure that we are the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than we inherited it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 15/09/2017 13:31:23 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

758693

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	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	Environment Protection
	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 adequacy of existing environmental legislation to maintain and restore the UK's natural heritage.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	9403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Defra undertook a review of implementation of the EU Nature Directives, published in March 2012, which also fed into the Law Commission’s ongoing review of wildlife legislation at that time. The Law Commission published its recommendations on 10 November 2015, to which the Government responded on 22 November 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 is currently subject to post-legislative scrutiny. Defra’s memorandum provides a preliminary assessment of the Act, which has been submitted to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. This is available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006-post-legislative-scrutiny" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006-post-legislative-scrutiny</a></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 15/09/2017 13:39:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

758691

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	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	Recycling
	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 proportion of waste was recycled in each local authority area in each year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	9352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Information about the proportion of household waste recycled by each local authority in England for the latest financial year 2015-16 and for each year since 2005-6 can be found in Table 3 of the dataset titled ‘local authority collected waste generation for (England &amp; regions) and local authority data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 15/09/2017 13:35:53 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane