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226283

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Flood 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 flood defence schemes are planned to be built under the Government's flood defence programme.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	908024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Our 6 year flood defence programme, announced in December, includes more than 1,400 projects across the country. This £2.3 billion investment is a real terms increase and will mean 300,000 more homes will be better protected.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/03/2015 09:04:14 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

226942

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Horticulture
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 promote British horticulture.
tabling member constituency	Banbury
tabling member printed	Sir Tony Baldry
uin	908034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>There’s huge potential in British Horticulture.</p><p> </p><p>We’re seeing exciting innovation. For example the strawberries season has been extended to 9 months of the year and due to new growing technologies we’ve seen the highest crop of cherries ever.</p><p> </p><p>Two weeks ago I held a roundtable with leading figures in the sector to discuss what more we can do to help them grow.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/03/2015 12:20:59 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry

175936

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
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	Pollinators
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 the Government is taking to support bees and pollinators.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Stephen Mosley
uin	907284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>On November 4<sup>th</sup>, we published the National Pollinator Strategy, a 10 year plan to help pollinators thrive involving farmers, major landowners and the public. Bees and other pollinators are vital for our £100bn food chain and are worth £400m to the economy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2015 11:27:57 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3954 label Biography information for Stephen Mosley

175937

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
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	Flood 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 steps she is taking to ensure the provision of adequate flood protections.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	907283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>We are investing £3.2 billion on flood management in this parliament; a real term increase and half a billion pounds more than in the previous parliament. Going forward we are making a record level £2.3 billion capital commitment, investing in more than 1,400 schemes to improving defences; a further 9% real terms average increase. We estimate this will provide more than £30 billion of economic benefit and provide better protection for 300,000 households.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2015 11:31:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

176425

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
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	Fracking
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 publish without redaction the Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts report, published by her Department with redactions in March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Duncan Hames
uin	907292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The economic impact of fracking is a matter for the Department for Energy and Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The paper that my Hon Friend refers to was an internal draft document. It was not analytically robust and was not signed off by Ministers. It has not been published and we have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My department is responsible for the environmental aspects of this policy. The Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering review on shale gas concluded if fracking is properly regulated it is safe and has minimal environmental impacts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2015 14:32:54 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3951 label Biography information for Duncan Hames