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	date	13/11/2017
	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	Waste Management
	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 the Local Government Association and individual local authorities on their progress on waste minimisation.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	112673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Surveys for black grouse are generally carried out at country level, but vary in frequency and sampling methods. It is therefore not possible to provide estimates at the UK level for the last five years.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The last comprehensive survey of the black grouse population was undertaken in 2005, which estimated there were approximately 5100 breeding pairs in Great Britain.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">In 2016 a formal estimate of the black grouse population in Great Britain was produced by several UK conservation bodies drawing on the data produced by country level surveys and using the International Union for Conservation of Nature methodology. The 2016 population of black grouse was estimated to be 5775 males (or breeding pairs).</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">I and Defra officials regularly meet with representatives of the Local Government Association and individual local authorities to discuss issues relating to household waste management. These discussions encompass actions taken across the entire waste hierarchy, including waste minimisation.</ins></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/11/2017 16:40:29 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2017 15:04:00 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey previous answer version 23193 answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

784805

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Timber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support his Department provides to increase the number of modular housing built with timber frames.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	111551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing housing supply by creating a diverse housing market, where housebuilders embrace innovation to become more productive and deliver better homes. Building more homes using modern methods of construction, including modular homes or timber frame homes, is a key part of this.</p><p>The Housing White Paper, published in February sets out a number of measures to stimulate the growth of this sector. These will create new opportunities for the use of modern methods of construction to encourage investors into the sector and give current suppliers confidence to expand into the housing market.</p><p>Last year the Secretary of State launched the £3 billion Home Building Fund, which provides support to builders using modern methods of construction, in addition to custom builders, small and medium-sized builders, and new entrants to the market.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 17/11/2017 13:44:12 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

788489

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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	Curlews: Conservation
	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 he has taken to protect the red-listed curlew; and if he will meet the Southern Curlew Forum to assist in the monitoring and conservation of remaining breeding birds in lowland England.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	112670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The England network of 87 classified special protection areas, covering approximately 1.5 million hectares of key habitats, protects many rare, threatened and vulnerable birds including curlews.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England is working with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on a recovery programme aimed at providing a coordinated approach to the management of curlew habitats to increase breeding numbers. This forms part of an international action plan to address curlew decline, which the UK supports as a signatory of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s agri-environment schemes have been designed to encourage habitat management. This includes providing suitable nesting and foraging conditions for wading birds such as curlew.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/11/2017 17:05:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew