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100166

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010
	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 information required to be collected under Condition 6 of the schedule to the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010 is available publicly.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	211404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Condition 6 of Part 1 of the Schedule to the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010 requires the operator of a greyhound racing track to keep records for 10 years of details of any injuries sustained by greyhounds during a race, trial or sales trial. The records must be completed by the attending veterinary surgeon but there is no requirement on tracks to make this information available publicly. However, we would expect the injury records to be reviewed by the veterinary surgeon and track manager on a regular basis to determine if injury rates are changing. How these records are being used will be one of the issues looked at during the five-year review of the Regulations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/10/2014 14:08:04 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

346900

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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: South West
	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 badgers exterminated through culling in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) Somerset were found to carry bovine tuberculosis in all instances in which tests were carried out in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2015 answer text <p>Badgers culled under licence in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2013 and 2014 were not routinely tested for tuberculosis (TB), since this research had already been carried out under the Random Badger Cull Trial (RBCT).</p><p>However, testing of badgers between 1998 and 2005 via the Randomised Badger Culling Trial and Road Traffic Accident surveys provided evidence of the typical prevalence of TB in badgers in areas of high incidence of TB in cattle. TB was found in around one third of all badgers in these areas.</p><p>During the culls, four badger carcasses were tested on occasion at the specific request of landowners. The tests were carried out by independent veterinary surgeons. Of the four carcasses, one carcass was confirmed to be infected with Bovine TB.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/06/2015 11:36:57 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

383870

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which buildings occupied by her Department are owned or part-owned privately; what the total value is of the rent paid to private landlords for the use of such buildings for official duties; and to whom such rent is paid.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	3102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>The requested data is set out in two documents which are attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total of annual rents payable for each of the leasehold sites listed in the documents on the Defra estate, as at 22 June 2015, is £16,160,890.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice attachment 1 file name 194 - 3102 - Defra Freeholds.pdf title Defra Freeholds 2 file name 194 - 3102 - Defra Leaseholds.pdf title Defra Leaseholds question first answered 26/06/2015 10:17:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

384528

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Buildings
	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 the office space owned or leased by her Department is not in regular use; what the total (a) rental and (b) retail value is of all such office space; and if she will place in the Library a copy of her most recent departmental real estate valuation.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	3473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>Defra offices are assessed as either being required to deliver departmental functions (forming the core estate) or surplus to this requirement (non-core).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra's priority for surplus holdings is to reduce property costs by exiting leasehold agreements, selling freeholds or by sub-letting to external tenants. The proportion of Defra office property vacant, held by the Defra property holding centre, as at 29<sup>th</sup> June is 5.76%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The actual rental depends on how long the office space would be vacant, making it difficult to calculate, with no rental values held for the freehold office estate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government Property Unit (GPU) has created a portal - Find Me Some Government Space (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/find-government-property" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/find-government-property</a>) - for more efficient marketing of surplus land and buildings. This is searchable by developers, community groups and the general public.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/06/2015 16:09:58 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

423560

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2015
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pay
	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 much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of her Department in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	13165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p>The table below sets out how much was paid to officials in the core-Department in end-year and in-year non-consolidated performance payments in each of the last three financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>End-year Payments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In-Year Payments</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£898,447</p></td><td><p>£167,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£1,359,640</p></td><td><p>£250,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£1,002,359</p></td><td><p>£298,028</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The amounts include end-year payments made to Senior Civil Servants and staff at Grade 6 and below and in-year payments made to staff at Grade 6 and below.</p><br /> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/10/2015 15:54:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

425370

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Stationery
	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 value of stationery that has been (a) lost and (b) stolen from her Department in each of the last five fiscal years; and what the cost was of replacing such stationery.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	14368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>No estimate of value has been made as there were no reported losses or thefts of stationery from the Department in the last five fiscal years.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/11/2015 12:19:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

451853

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2016
	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	Food: Labelling
	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 she has made of the potential effect of a British exit from the EU on the international legal enforceability of protected UK food names.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	26883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the potential effect of a British exit from the EU on the international legal enforceability of protected UK food names.</p><p>Separately, the Government is taking steps to achieve a significant increase in the number of UK food products covered by the EU’s protected food names scheme. We continue to exert pressure on the European Commission to secure wider international recognition of these products, as well as our wines and spirits drinks that are protected by Geographical Indications, in the context of EU bilateral trade negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/02/2016 17:45:31 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

621963

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2016
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Location
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in her Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	50399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The number and proportion of Deputy Director SCS posts based outside London as at 30 September for each year since 2014 is shown below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>SCS Pay Band 1</strong> <strong>(Deputy Director)</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: % shown is of total SCS based outside London, rounded to the nearest whole number</p><p> </p><p>We do not use the descriptor Assistant Director in Defra; Team Leader and Policy Manager posts are below SCS level.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/11/2016 15:54:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

670208

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	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	Livestock: Homeopathy
	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 is issued by her Department on the efficacy of homeopathy treatment in livestock.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	59017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>All veterinary medicines, including homeopathics, that make medicinal claims (treatment or prevention of disease) must provide data to demonstrate their efficacy and require a full marketing authorisation in order to be sold in the UK. Guidance on the efficacy data required to gain a marketing authorisation is provided by the European Medicines Agency.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no homeopathic veterinary medicines authorised with medicinal claims.</p><p> </p><p>The veterinary homeopathic products on the market have all been registered either through the homeopathic registration scheme or are on the ‘Grandfather list’. These products are not permitted to make medicinal claims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/01/2017 15:59:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711446

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Freedom of Information
	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 the average response rate was of her Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>Response rates for Freedom of Information requests received by Defra are published quarterly on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Information has been published up to September 2016 and subsequent figures will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/03/2017 10:47:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne