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443426

registered interest
date	08/01/2016
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: Staff
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 people of each gender work in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	21615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Defra will publish the latest annual workforce monitoring report in January 2016. The report examines the diversity of Defra’s workforce and provides evidence of how we achieve our aim of offering real equality of opportunity to all our employees.</p><br /><p>The data from this report has been used to create the table below to highlight gender breakdown by headcount. Table 1 shows staff in post as at 31 March 2015 in Defra and its Executive Agencies. Employees on maternity leave and secondment are included in this analysis if they are on the core or agency payroll.</p><br /><p>Table 1</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Headcount </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Workforce monitoring report</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gender (male)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gender</strong> <strong>(female)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defra</p></td><td><p>2,086</p></td><td><p>1,064</p></td><td><p>1,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>APHA</p></td><td><p>2,359</p></td><td><p>991</p></td><td><p>1,368</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cefas</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>311</p></td><td><p>234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RPA</p></td><td><p>2,134</p></td><td><p>982</p></td><td><p>1,152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>VMD</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Defra and its Agencies</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,282</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,413</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,869</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The report referred to can be found on the Gov.UK website here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/about/equality-and-diversity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/about/equality-and-diversity</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/01/2016 15:40:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

443244

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	Floods: Agriculture
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 she plans to extend the Farming Recovery Fund to provide support for farmers in all areas affected by the recent flooding.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	21517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>We have extended the Farming Recovery Fund to allow eligible farmers in Lancashire and Yorkshire impacted by storm Eva, which hit over Christmas Day and Boxing Day, to be able to apply for support.</p><br /><p>The deadline for applications has been extended from 18 March 2016 to 1 April 2016 to provide further time for affected farmers to apply.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/01/2016 17:43:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

442927

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	White Fish: Fishing Catches
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 use she plans to make of the granting of (a) exemptions and (b) increased vessel limits for gillnetting of sea bass to achieve quota recommendations from the International Council for Exploration of the Sea.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The package of EU bass measures agreed at the December Fisheries Council included derogations and differentiated catch limits for fixed gillnets. The legislative arrangements do not include a mechanism for granting or withholding such provisions by Member States, although Member States may impose more stringent standards at national level if considered appropriate.</p><br /><p>With regard to the recommendations from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member on 12<sup>th</sup> January 2016, PQ UIN 20832.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/01/2016 16:15:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

442929

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Fishing Catches
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 is she taking to achieve an end to overfishing by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government was instrumental in ensuring that the EU Common Fisheries Policy contains a legal requirement requiring that by 2020, at the latest, fishing rates are set at levels that will deliver maximum sustainable yield (MSY).</p><br /><p>At the European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council in December 2015, I maintained the pressure and successfully secured a 50% increase in the number of fish stocks, in which the UK has an interest, that will be fished at or below MSY levels in 2016.</p><br /><p>Stocks fished at, or below, maximum sustainable yield in 2015:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1. North Sea haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2. West of Scotland haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3. Nephrops IV in Fladen ground</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4. North Sea plaice</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5. North Sea sprat</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6. North Sea autumn spawning herring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7. Irish Sea herring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8. Herring in Division VIa (North)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9. Herring VIIa Celtic Sea and South of Ireland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10. Herring in subareas I, II, V and sub areas Vi and VII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11. Western Channel sole</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12. Horse Mackerel IIa. IVa. Vb. VIa. VIIa-c. e-k. VIII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13. Whiting VII b-k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14. Blue ling in Division Vb. and Subareas VI and VII</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15. NE Atlantic spurdog</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16. Roundnose grenadier in Vb, VI, VII</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Additional stocks which will be fished at, or below, maximum sustainable yield in 2016:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>17.North Sea cod</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18.Nephrops in the Firth of Forth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19.Nephrops in Moray Firth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20.North Sea, West of Scotland and Rockall saithe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21.Western Channel plaice</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22.Rockall haddock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23. Megrim in Divisions IVa and VIa</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24. Irish Sea sole</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/01/2016 14:32:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

442930

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Agriculture: Trade
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 effect on British agriculture of the Nairobi Package agreed by the World Trade Organisation on 19 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	21342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>The tenth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation concluded with a historic deal for agriculture, specifically on export competition rules. The outcome included the elimination of export subsidies for agricultural products and disciplines on measures with equivalent effect. This should provide greater confidence for UK agriculture producers by reducing the scope for volatility on global markets and constraining the ability of other countries to use measures such as export finance to support their exporters.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/01/2016 14:24:01 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

442931

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 marketing standards conformity checks for consignments of fresh fruit and vegetables exported to the UK by Israel have not been accepted on the grounds that the products in those consignments originated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Defra does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:28:58 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442933

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 (a) number and (b) proportion of goods imported into the UK labelled as products of Israel that are from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by Defra. No estimate of these statistics has been produced.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:56:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442934

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 fruit and vegetables imported into the UK have postcodes that show that the produce originated from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by Defra. No estimate has been produced of this proportion.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:18:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442935

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 marketing standards conformity checks are applied to produce from settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>All fruit and vegetables must meet the EU marketing standards in Regulation 543/2011. These standards require that fruit and vegetables which are intended to be sold fresh to the consumer may only be marketed if they are of sound, fair and marketable quality and if the country of origin is indicated. Horticultural Marketing Inspectors carry out the same processes and procedures for fruit and vegetables regardless of origin.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:24:29 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442937

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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: UK Membership of EU
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 she is taking to prepare for the outcome of the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	21253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is fighting hard to fix the aspects of our EU membership that cause so much frustration in Britain - so we get a better deal for Britain and secure our future. The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 16:54:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins