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426185

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
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	Schools: Water Charges
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 her Department plans to take steps to ensure that water and sewerage charges for schools reflect actual costs incurred by the water company.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	14776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The amount that water and sewerage companies can charge their customers is subject to a cap set by Ofwat, the independent economic regulator. Ofwat has statutory duties to ensure that customer charges are fair and that the companies are able to finance the essential services they provide.</p><p>Working within Ofwat’s regulatory framework, water companies have choices to make about how they apportion costs for the different services they provide across different groups of customers. All water and sewerage companies have to remove and treat the rainwater that drains into public sewers, so a surface water drainage charge is included in all customers’ bills. Some companies average these costs across all their customers, while others charge their non-household customers according to the amount of water that drains from their property into the sewer. This is known as site area charging; its aim is to ensure that charges reflect the actual costs associated with providing a drainage service to that customer.</p><p>This approach to charging results in reductions to the bills of some customers. However, it can increase the bills of some organisations, such as schools, that manage larger sites. The Government is aware of concerns about the impact of surface water drainage charges on schools in the North West. In light of this we will be reviewing our Guidance to Water and Sewerage Undertakers in relation to Concessionary Schemes for Community Groups for Surface Water Drainage Charges.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 09/11/2015 17:23:46 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

425329

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	Fly-tipping: Fines
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 bring forward proposals to increase the level of fines available to local authorities for fly-tipping.
tabling member constituency	Beckenham
tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
uin	14335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The fine for fly-tipping is unlimited.</p><p>Tackling fly-tipping is a priority for the Government. As set out in our manifesto, next spring we will be giving councils the power to tackle small scale fly-tipping through fixed penalty notices as an alternative to prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 09/11/2015 14:47:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart

425373

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	Puffins
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 factors contributing to the reclassification of Atlantic puffins as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	14437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest population trends indicate a recent decline in the population of UK puffins. This is thought to be due to a combination of factors, including climate change-related food shortages and inclement weather conditions during the breeding season.</p><br /><p>The UK is currently undertaking a review of the terrestrial and coastal network of UK Special Protection Areas (SPA), classified under the EU Wild Birds Directive. The review will inform the need for any further SPA provision for this species.</p><br /><p>The UK is also making good progress in identifying a number of SPAs in the marine environment to complete our network. These will be in addition to the existing 108 SPAs with marine components currently in place in the UK, which provide protection for just over 11,500km2 of seabird habitat.</p><br /><p>Additionally in England, Natural England has been involved in projects to eradicate mammalian predators on Lundy and the Isles of Scilly which should improve the nesting conditions for breeding puffins.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 14438 question first answered 09/11/2015 14:51:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

425374

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	Puffins
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 her Department is taking to ensure that the UK contributes to conserving the puffin population.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	14438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest population trends indicate a recent decline in the population of UK puffins. This is thought to be due to a combination of factors, including climate change-related food shortages and inclement weather conditions during the breeding season.</p><br /><p>The UK is currently undertaking a review of the terrestrial and coastal network of UK Special Protection Areas (SPA), classified under the EU Wild Birds Directive. The review will inform the need for any further SPA provision for this species.</p><br /><p>The UK is also making good progress in identifying a number of SPAs in the marine environment to complete our network. These will be in addition to the existing 108 SPAs with marine components currently in place in the UK, which provide protection for just over 11,500km2 of seabird habitat.</p><br /><p>Additionally in England, Natural England has been involved in projects to eradicate mammalian predators on Lundy and the Isles of Scilly which should improve the nesting conditions for breeding puffins.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 14437 question first answered 09/11/2015 14:51:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

425095

registered interest
date	30/10/2015
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	Agriculture: Climate Change
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 research her Department is funding on the effects of climate change on agricultural production in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	14219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the Government has a statutory role to produce, on a five-yearly cycle, an assessment of the risks and opportunities for the UK arising from climate change. The first Climate Change Risk Assessment was published in 2012. Work is underway on the second CCRA, for which Defra is funding the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change to produce the underpinning Evidence Report by July 2016. This will include an up-to-date review of evidence on the effects of climate change on agriculture, and all other sectors. The CCRA Government Report will be laid before Parliament no later than January 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 09/11/2015 14:41:13 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching