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686090

registered interest
date	07/02/2017
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	Inland Waterways: East of England
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 she has made of the condition of the navigable waterways managed by the Environment Agency in the Anglian region.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	63480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency reports the condition of the essential navigation assets such as locks, landing stages and canoe portages on a quarterly basis. Assets are considered to be at a required condition if they do not have any defects that significantly reduce the performance of the asset, or adversely increase the safety risk to the public or Environment Agency staff.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency regularly inspects all navigation assets. If there is a safety risk to members of the public then repairs will be undertaken to remove the risk or the asset will be closed.</p><p> </p><p>The information in the table below relates only to expenditure associated with navigation assets within Anglian Region. The Environment Agency also invests money on other assets and in-river works that provide benefit to navigation, for example in-river weed cutting for Flood and Coastal Risk Management purposes, and investment to weirs and sluices that maintain a water level for navigation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Anglian Waterways Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017 Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,839,710</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,299,677</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,704,044</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,125,984</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,142,018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,919,461</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the next three years the Environment Agency will continue to invest the income it receives from registration charges collected from the users on the Anglian waterways. From March 2017 this is expected to be £2,265m per annum. The Environment Agency also secures funding from within the organisation which is negotiated on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the 2015 Spending Review the Environment Agency’s capital settlement from Defra was £3m pa over the next three years to be spent across all our waterways. Funding will be allocated to assets which will benefit the most from investment. Anglian waterways will receive a proportion of this funding.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 63481 63482 question first answered 14/02/2017 09:51:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

686091

registered interest
date	07/02/2017
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	Inland Waterways: East of England
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 much the Environment Agency spent on the navigable waterways in the Anglian region in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	63481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency reports the condition of the essential navigation assets such as locks, landing stages and canoe portages on a quarterly basis. Assets are considered to be at a required condition if they do not have any defects that significantly reduce the performance of the asset, or adversely increase the safety risk to the public or Environment Agency staff.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency regularly inspects all navigation assets. If there is a safety risk to members of the public then repairs will be undertaken to remove the risk or the asset will be closed.</p><p> </p><p>The information in the table below relates only to expenditure associated with navigation assets within Anglian Region. The Environment Agency also invests money on other assets and in-river works that provide benefit to navigation, for example in-river weed cutting for Flood and Coastal Risk Management purposes, and investment to weirs and sluices that maintain a water level for navigation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Anglian Waterways Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017 Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,839,710</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,299,677</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,704,044</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,125,984</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,142,018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,919,461</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the next three years the Environment Agency will continue to invest the income it receives from registration charges collected from the users on the Anglian waterways. From March 2017 this is expected to be £2,265m per annum. The Environment Agency also secures funding from within the organisation which is negotiated on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the 2015 Spending Review the Environment Agency’s capital settlement from Defra was £3m pa over the next three years to be spent across all our waterways. Funding will be allocated to assets which will benefit the most from investment. Anglian waterways will receive a proportion of this funding.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 63480 63482 question first answered 14/02/2017 09:51:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

686092

registered interest
date	07/02/2017
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	Inland Waterways: East of England
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 much the Environment Agency plans to spend on the navigable waterways in the Anglian Region in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	63482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency reports the condition of the essential navigation assets such as locks, landing stages and canoe portages on a quarterly basis. Assets are considered to be at a required condition if they do not have any defects that significantly reduce the performance of the asset, or adversely increase the safety risk to the public or Environment Agency staff.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency regularly inspects all navigation assets. If there is a safety risk to members of the public then repairs will be undertaken to remove the risk or the asset will be closed.</p><p> </p><p>The information in the table below relates only to expenditure associated with navigation assets within Anglian Region. The Environment Agency also invests money on other assets and in-river works that provide benefit to navigation, for example in-river weed cutting for Flood and Coastal Risk Management purposes, and investment to weirs and sluices that maintain a water level for navigation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Anglian Waterways Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017 Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,839,710</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,299,677</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,704,044</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,125,984</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,142,018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,919,461</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the next three years the Environment Agency will continue to invest the income it receives from registration charges collected from the users on the Anglian waterways. From March 2017 this is expected to be £2,265m per annum. The Environment Agency also secures funding from within the organisation which is negotiated on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the 2015 Spending Review the Environment Agency’s capital settlement from Defra was £3m pa over the next three years to be spent across all our waterways. Funding will be allocated to assets which will benefit the most from investment. Anglian waterways will receive a proportion of this funding.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 63480 63481 question first answered 14/02/2017 09:51:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

686096

registered interest
date	07/02/2017
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	Air Pollution: Death
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 reduce the number of premature deaths attributed to particulate air pollution; and what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of Public Health England's report, Estimating local mortality burdens associated with particulate air pollution.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	63494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government have committed more than £2 billion since 2011 to reduce transport emissions and the Autumn Statement provided a further £290 million to support greener transport.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing the Air Pollution Action Plan. This is to tackle the five main pollutants: sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, ammonia and fine particulate matter. The UK has agreed legally binding national ceilings for emissions of these pollutants by 2020 and 2030.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/02/2017 11:18:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

685492

registered interest
date	06/02/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Security
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 security passes into her Department are issued to people (a) not directly employed by and (b) who are not civil servants who work in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	63262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>My Department does not have a business or security need to separate the information between these defined categories therefore we do not record them in this way. Strict processes are followed before a pass is authorised and ultimately revoked.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Passes are issued to contractors, secondees, public sector workers (e.g. from Non Departmental Public Bodies) or Crown Servants such as Police or Military forces as well as to Civil Servants where it is necessary and appropriate to do so. This enables teams to work flexibly and effectively to best support the business need. Use of all security passes are underpinned by strong physical security focus, access control procedures and technologies, clear processes and assurance mechanisms that enable an integrated workforce to operate in a secure manner.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/02/2017 17:53:01 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

685495

registered interest
date	06/02/2017
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	Shellfish: Non-native Species
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 tackle the spread of the invasive species of demon shrimp, dikerogammarus haemobaphes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	63228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>Defra’s “Check, Clean, Dry” campaign promotes good biosecurity to help slow the spread of invasive non-native species and, in particular, prevent their introduction to uninfected waterbodies. It is widely promoted to, by and amongst water users including water companies, anglers and recreational boaters. Government agencies routinely follow its good practice. Our focus has been on limiting the spread, when <em>Dikerogammarus haemobaphes</em> was identified in Great Britain it was already widespread within the canal and river network; as such eradication is not considered feasible.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency has recently adopted a regulatory position that will reduce this risk and incentivise the water industry to develop methods for water transferred in this way to prevent the spread of these species. This is one of a number of invasive non-native species that can be spread through untreated water transferred from one region to another by water companies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/02/2017 09:56:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

681841

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
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	Air Pollution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that air pollution levels are reduced in the UK, in the light of the alert declared in London recently as a result of toxic air peaks.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL5154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom complies with EU legislation for nearly all air pollutants, but faces challenges in achieving nitrogen dioxide limits, along with 16 other EU member states. That is why we have committed more than £2 billion since 2011 to reduce transport emissions and the autumn statement provided a further £290 million to support greener transport. Air quality is improving, but the Government recognises that we need to go further and faster and we will be consulting on a new national plan by 24 April. The final plan will be in place by the end of July.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the national air quality plan already in place we are requiring five cities (Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton) to implement Clean Air Zones.</p><p> </p><p>London faces the greatest challenge because of the size and complexity of the Capital’s transport networks and construction activity from unprecedented growth. The Mayor is responsible for air quality in the capital and has reserve powers under Part IV of the 1995 Environment Act to enable this. Under the Act the Mayor may direct the boroughs in the Greater London area concerning how they should assess and prioritise action in their areas. From September 2020 an Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will be introduced in London. The ULEZ will apply to all cars, motorcycles, vans, minibuses, buses, coaches and HGVs and will cover the same area as the current Congestion Charge Zone.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/02/2017 14:15:00 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian