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1020661

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
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	Insecticides
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 his Department's policy is on the use of Redigo Deter by farmers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	199777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Redigo Deter is a seed treatment for cereal crops which contains clothianidin, a neonicotinoid insecticide. It will cease to be authorised for use after 19 December this year. This is because all outdoor use of clothianidin and two other neonicotinoids is being prohibited. These restrictions are necessary in the light of growing evidence that all three neonicotinoids can harm pollinators.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/12/2018 17:25:06 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1020422

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	Slugs: Neonicotinoids
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 National Farmers Union on the potential increase in the number of slugs as a result of ban on the use of neonicotinoids; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	199276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Ministers have not discussed the issue of a potential increase in the number of slugs with the National Farmers Union.</p><p>From 19 December use of the three neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam will be restricted to greenhouse crops only. The Government supported these restrictions in the light of growing evidence that these pesticides can harm pollinators.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/12/2018 09:44:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1005900

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
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	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 new licences to cull badgers he plans to issue in badger cull areas in the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	190339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Defra’s licensing Guidance to Natural England permits the licensing of a maximum of ten new Badger Disease Control areas each year unless there are compelling reasons to increase or decrease the number.</p><p> </p><p>The number of licences issued in any year will depend on the number of applications received by Natural England that meet the criteria in the licensing Guidance. Applications are prioritised according to the extent to which they best meet the primary aim of the policy (i.e. to eradicate TB).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/11/2018 14:49:33 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1005901

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
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	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, what recent discussions he has had with landowning bodies about the need to cover complete badger cull areas.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	190340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Defra Ministers regularly meet landowning bodies. Badger culling operations are undertaken voluntarily under licence and the decision of landowners on whether or not to participate is respected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/11/2018 14:38:33 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

931508

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Dogs: Electronic Training Aids
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 introduce legislative proposals to ban the use of (a) electric remote hand-held devices on dogs and (b) electric containment devices for use near dogs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	157622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Defra ran a public consultation exercise between 12 March and 27 April on a proposal to ban the use of electronic training collars. We are currently analysing the responses and will publish a summary of those responses and a way forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2018 11:04:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

850723

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Farms: Hedges and Ditches
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 potential merits of extending the period during which farmers are permitted to cut hedges; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	129964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The hedge-cutting ban protects farmland birds during the important nesting and rearing period. In England the bird breeding and rearing season is primarily March to August inclusive. The evidence for this comes from the British Trust for Ornithology’s Nest Record Scheme and shows that farmland birds such as the Blackbird, Common Whitethroat, Goldfinch, Bullfinch and Yellowhammer rear and have late broods during August – not only the Wood Pigeon as some have suggested. We have discussed the impact of the non-cutting period with agricultural and environmental organisations and introduced a derogation that enables hedges to be cut in a field during August if oil seed rape or temporary grass is sown in that field. We continue to allow hedges to be cut during six months of each year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/03/2018 10:21:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

850727

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme in providing specialised labour for farmers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	129968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme operated successfully from 1945 until 2013. It was closed following the accession to the EU of Romania and Bulgaria which meant there was a sufficient supply of labour from EU nationals.</p><p> </p><p>Following the decision to close the scheme in 2013, Defra established the SAWS Transition Working Group, now called the Seasonal Workforce Working Group. This group meets regularly and brings industry and government together to monitor the seasonal labour situation across the UK. The farming industry reported that in the third quarter of 2016, labour recruitment was more challenging than in previous years.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has made clear that the government is giving consideration to what replacement arrangements might be necessary after the UK leaves the European Union to ensure that the farming industry has access to the labour it requires.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/03/2018 14:31:44 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

802538

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Neonicotinoids
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 scientific basis is for the Government's decision to ban the use of neonicotinoids
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	118088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The use of three neonicotinoids has been restricted since 2013 so that they cannot be used on crops attractive to bees, such as oilseed rape. The purpose of these restrictions is to protect bees and other pollinating insects.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps the developing evidence on neonicotinoids under review. The latest advice from the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides is that scientific evidence now suggests the risks posed by neonicotinoids to bees and other pollinators are greater than previously understood. This can be found via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658146/ecp-ministers-advice-1710.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658146/ecp-ministers-advice-1710.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/12/2017 15:37:05 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

802658

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
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 cost to the public purse of administering and running the Countryside Stewardship Scheme annually is.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	118208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The cost of administering the Countryside Stewardship Scheme in 2017 is about £15 million. This includes staff costs and additions for IT, estates and other on-costs and the cost of new IT development (of approximately £1.5 million).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/12/2017 12:31:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

802659

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 is taking to improve the delivery of Rural Payments Agency payments to farmers.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	118209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The current CAP is bureaucratic and ineffective. The unnecessary reporting and mapping requirements imposed by the European Commission hampers the effective delivery of the Basic Payment Scheme. The government therefore believes that the best way to improve agricultural policy is to leave the European Union and establish a coherent, domestic policy instead. However, in the short term, we are working to make the best of the failed CAP and performance was far better in 2016 than in 2015. EU law means that the scope for simplifying the existing BPS scheme is limited.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 118215 question first answered 19/12/2017 13:33:27 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson