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789044

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	European Chemicals Agency
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 the Government plans to seek the UK's continued participation with the European Chemicals Agency, as set out under Article 106 of EU Regulation 1907/2006, after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	113008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Bill will convert current EU law into domestic law wherever practical, giving consumers and businesses as much certainty as possible. This includes laws relating to chemicals. The UK is strongly committed to the effective and safe management of chemicals. That will not change when we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>While it would not be appropriate to pre-judge the outcome of the negotiations we will discuss with the EU and Member States how best to continue cooperation in chemicals regulation in the best interests of both the UK and the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/11/2017 16:34:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

789259

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Water Charges: Schools
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 average water and sewerage charge was for schools across local authorities in the South East in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	113097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on average water and sewerage charges for particular groups of customers is not readily available centrally. Water companies set out the basis for all their charges in charges schemes, published annually on their websites.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not intend to undertake another review of the guidance in relation to concessionary schemes for community groups for surface water drainage charges, following the review carried out last year.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance allows water companies the flexibility to introduce concessions that best suit their local circumstances. This has meant, for example, that United Utilities has been able to introduce the following changes for schools with playgrounds teaching key stages 1-5:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>a bill credit of 15% on wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges for 2017/18; and</p></li><li><p>a 50% reduction to wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges from 2018/19 onwards. This would represent approximately a 40% reduction in the overall wastewater bill.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 113096 113098 113099 question first answered 17/11/2017 15:23:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

789260

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Water Charges: Schools
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 average water and sewerage charge was for schools in Garston and Halewood constituency in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	113098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on average water and sewerage charges for particular groups of customers is not readily available centrally. Water companies set out the basis for all their charges in charges schemes, published annually on their websites.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not intend to undertake another review of the guidance in relation to concessionary schemes for community groups for surface water drainage charges, following the review carried out last year.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance allows water companies the flexibility to introduce concessions that best suit their local circumstances. This has meant, for example, that United Utilities has been able to introduce the following changes for schools with playgrounds teaching key stages 1-5:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>a bill credit of 15% on wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges for 2017/18; and</p></li><li><p>a 50% reduction to wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges from 2018/19 onwards. This would represent approximately a 40% reduction in the overall wastewater bill.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 113096 113097 113099 question first answered 17/11/2017 15:23:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

789261

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Water Charges: Schools
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 average water and sewerage charge was for schools across local authorities in the North West in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	113096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on average water and sewerage charges for particular groups of customers is not readily available centrally. Water companies set out the basis for all their charges in charges schemes, published annually on their websites.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not intend to undertake another review of the guidance in relation to concessionary schemes for community groups for surface water drainage charges, following the review carried out last year.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance allows water companies the flexibility to introduce concessions that best suit their local circumstances. This has meant, for example, that United Utilities has been able to introduce the following changes for schools with playgrounds teaching key stages 1-5:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>a bill credit of 15% on wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges for 2017/18; and</p></li><li><p>a 50% reduction to wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges from 2018/19 onwards. This would represent approximately a 40% reduction in the overall wastewater bill.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 113097 113098 113099 question first answered 17/11/2017 15:23:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

789262

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Water Charges: Schools
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 plans he has to review the application to schools of the Guidance to Water and Sewerage Undertakers in relation to Concessionary Schemes for Community Groups for Surface Water and Highways Drainage Charges.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	113099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on average water and sewerage charges for particular groups of customers is not readily available centrally. Water companies set out the basis for all their charges in charges schemes, published annually on their websites.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs does not intend to undertake another review of the guidance in relation to concessionary schemes for community groups for surface water drainage charges, following the review carried out last year.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance allows water companies the flexibility to introduce concessions that best suit their local circumstances. This has meant, for example, that United Utilities has been able to introduce the following changes for schools with playgrounds teaching key stages 1-5:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>a bill credit of 15% on wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges for 2017/18; and</p></li><li><p>a 50% reduction to wholesale surface water and highway drainage charges from 2018/19 onwards. This would represent approximately a 40% reduction in the overall wastewater bill.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 113096 113097 113098 question first answered 17/11/2017 15:23:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

788494

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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	Pet Travel 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, how many pet passports have been issued in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	112762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) issue blank pet passports to approved Official Veterinarian (OV) practices who then issue these for cats, dogs and ferrets to move under the Pet Travel Scheme. The below data is for numbers of blank pet passports issued to OV practices by APHA. We do not record the number of pet passports issued by OV practices to individual animals, however carriers do record the number of times pets travel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of pet passports issued to OV practices</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>64000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>68175</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>72325</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>119704</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>95449</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 (to date)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>81461</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In December 2014 new model pet passports were introduced as a result of a new EU Regulation covering pet movements. This will account for the increase in the number of pet passports issued to OV practices in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/11/2017 11:25:01 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

786210

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
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: Housing
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 plans he has to reduce indoor air pollution and the associated public health effects of household pollutants.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	111954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Many everyday activities essential for supporting lives and livelihoods such as generating power, transport, industry, agriculture and heating homes, also emit damaging air pollutants which the UK has made legal commitments to control. Defra is working closely with the Department of Health, Public Health England, and their advisors the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants to develop the Clean Air Strategy, setting out how we will reduce pollution. We will publish the Clean Air Strategy for consultation in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/11/2017 14:50:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

784867

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Grasslands: Conservation
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 his Department is taking to retain and protect meadowlands habitats in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Environmental policy is devolved across the four nations of the UK. Defra, the Scottish and Welsh governments and the Northern Ireland Executive share a high-level ambition to improve the environment for the next generation and are committed to work together to foster this ambition.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations protect rural land in England that is uncultivated or semi-natural from changes in agricultural activities that might cause damage by either increasing productivity or physically changing field boundaries.</p><p> </p><p>Many grasslands are afforded protection as sites of special scientific interest.</p><p> </p><p>The Common Agricultural Policy Greening requirements ask Member States to define grasslands that are ‘environmentally sensitive’ and to protect them from ploughing. We have chosen to define permanent grassland within Natura 2000 areas, the network of European sites designated under the EU Habitats and Wild Birds Directives, as ‘environmentally sensitive’ and they are subject to a ‘no plough rule.’</p><p> </p><p>In England through agri-environment schemes, farmers and land managers can manage and restore species rich grassland as part of 5 or 10 year agreements. We currently have 5,061 hectares being managed under our new Countryside Stewardship scheme and 89,476 hectares under the Environmental Stewardship scheme.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 17/11/2017 11:16:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

785173

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Members: Correspondence
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 plans he has to reply to the letter of 14 June 2017 from the hon. Member for Weston-Super-Mare on behalf of Organic Milk Supplies Co-operative Ltd about exports to the US and the EU.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	111835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>A response was issued on 10 November.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/11/2017 11:19:06 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose