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971315

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Housing: 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 and what proportion of houses in flood-affected post codes after storm Desmond have had flood protection measures installed; and what flood protection measures have been installed in each house that was affected.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	172487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>As a result of Storm Desmond and Eva, 17,628 properties were eligible to receive the flood resilience grant in the local authority areas impacted by the storms.</p><p> </p><p>66% (11,756) of those eligible for the grant in the impacted local authority areas submitted applications and 95% (11,193) were approved.</p><p> </p><p>The information about the postcodes of properties that received the grants and the types of measures installed is held by the local authorities who implemented the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The range of flood resilience measures installed in each property will depend on the choices made by the householder, the type of flood risk, and the construction of the property.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/09/2018 12:30:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

971324

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Floods: Cumbria
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 his Department has made of the number of businesses that have been flooded by rising water levels on Lake Windermere in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	172493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Since the late 1990s the Windermere Lake area has been subject to flooding on several occasions, notably in 1999, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2015. The Environment Agency (EA) estimates that approximately 94 businesses flooded in 2015 as a result of rising water levels on Lake Windermere.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EA does not have records of numbers of businesses flooded prior to 2015. The Windermere Lake peak level record was set in 2009. The impact of the 2009 event will therefore have encompassed a greater number of flooded businesses relative to any other year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/09/2018 12:34:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

971358

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Fly-tipping and Litter: Fines
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 encourage local authorities to impose fines for littering and flytipping.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	172465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Litter Strategy for England in 2017, setting out our approach of applying best practice in education, enforcement and ‘binfrastructure’ in order to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Litter Strategy sets out a number of proposals to improve enforcement against littering, including commitments to “support councils in using new powers to issue fixed penalties for small‑scale fly‑tipping offences”, and “deliver guidance to promote proportionate and responsible enforcement”. Alongside the Strategy, we also consulted on proposals to increase the fixed penalty for littering, and to give councils improved powers to take enforcement action against littering from vehicles.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group we have published guidance which sets out clearly the powers available to local authorities when tackling fly-tipping. It is the responsibility of local authorities to use the full range of enforcement powers available to them to tackle fly-tipping. The list of powers is online here: <a href="http://www.tacklingflytipping.com/Documents/NFTPG-CaseStudies/Fly-tipping-responsibilities-Guide-for-local-authorities-and-land-manage....pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tacklingflytipping.com/Documents/NFTPG-CaseStudies/Fly-tipping-responsibilities-Guide-for-local-authorities-and-land-manage....pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With effect from April 2018, we have increased the maximum fixed penalty for littering from £80 to £150, and given councils in England new powers to tackle littering from vehicles. We have no plans to make further changes to the level of fixed penalties at this stage. It is for councils now to use these powers and some are already taking advantage of them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also recently consulted on improved guidance on the proportionate use of these enforcement powers, which we propose to incorporate into the statutory Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse. That consultation closed on 8 June and responses are currently being considered. We expect to publish the revised guidance later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 172466 question first answered 13/09/2018 12:21:26 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

971359

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Litter: Fines
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 increasing the maximum fine for littering.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	172466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Litter Strategy for England in 2017, setting out our approach of applying best practice in education, enforcement and ‘binfrastructure’ in order to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Litter Strategy sets out a number of proposals to improve enforcement against littering, including commitments to “support councils in using new powers to issue fixed penalties for small‑scale fly‑tipping offences”, and “deliver guidance to promote proportionate and responsible enforcement”. Alongside the Strategy, we also consulted on proposals to increase the fixed penalty for littering, and to give councils improved powers to take enforcement action against littering from vehicles.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group we have published guidance which sets out clearly the powers available to local authorities when tackling fly-tipping. It is the responsibility of local authorities to use the full range of enforcement powers available to them to tackle fly-tipping. The list of powers is online here: <a href="http://www.tacklingflytipping.com/Documents/NFTPG-CaseStudies/Fly-tipping-responsibilities-Guide-for-local-authorities-and-land-manage....pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tacklingflytipping.com/Documents/NFTPG-CaseStudies/Fly-tipping-responsibilities-Guide-for-local-authorities-and-land-manage....pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With effect from April 2018, we have increased the maximum fixed penalty for littering from £80 to £150, and given councils in England new powers to tackle littering from vehicles. We have no plans to make further changes to the level of fixed penalties at this stage. It is for councils now to use these powers and some are already taking advantage of them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also recently consulted on improved guidance on the proportionate use of these enforcement powers, which we propose to incorporate into the statutory Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse. That consultation closed on 8 June and responses are currently being considered. We expect to publish the revised guidance later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 172465 question first answered 13/09/2018 12:21:26 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

971360

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Tree Planting: Cumbria
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 of the 11 million trees his Department plans to be planted this Parliament will be planted in the first pilot forestry investment zone in Cumbria.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	172410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Forestry investment zones are being developed to drive our long term woodland expansion aspirations. No estimate has been made of the contribution of individual forestry investment zones to the 11 million tree commitment.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/09/2018 09:12:21 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

971362

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Tree Planting
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 Forestry Commission England has plans to report on progress on achieving the Government’s objective of planting 180,000 hectares of new woodland in England by the end of 2042 in its Annual Corporate Plan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	172412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Statistics on all known new planting of woodland and on the area of woodland in England are already published annually by the Forestry Commission in Forestry Statistics, available on the Forest Research website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/09/2018 12:28:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

971448

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, published in April 2018, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	172572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has already allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for preparations for leaving the EU so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19. A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on 13 March (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a>). This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/09/2018 15:28:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

969107

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Water Supply
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 measures is he taking to reduce the amount of water leakage by water companies; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	New Forest West
tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
uin	171269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Total leakage has fallen by a third since 1994, following investment by water companies. However, there is still more to do.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 25 Year Environment Plan sets out the Government’s ambitions for reducing demand on water resources. This includes support for Ofwat’s target for water companies to reduce leakage by 15% by 2025.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State recently called in water company Chief Executives who did not meet their leakage targets this year to explain this failure and what actions they were taking to improve their performance - particularly in light of this summer’s dry weather.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In their draft business plans, water companies have proposed an average reduction of 16% by 2025. It is now for Ofwat to scrutinise these plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/09/2018 09:16:03 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

969304

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bicycles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the prohibition of visitors bringing their folding bikes into the DEFRA office at 2 Marsham Street in London; and whether that prohibition is compatible with the aims of that Department’s environmental policies.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL10134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Defra is a tenant at 2 Marsham Street, with the Home Office (Defra’s Landlord) occupying the majority of the site. Defra follows the security protocols set by the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For folding bikes the following protocols apply across the whole building:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Full building pass holders can bring folding bikes into the office but most enter via the car park and leave bikes at the bike racks.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>VIPs are permitted to enter the office space with a folding bike.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Pre-booked visitors are requested to take their bike to the car park entrance where it can be left in a secure sheltered area (visitor bike racks are provided).</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Unannounced visitors are required to contact their host/sponsor to vouch for them and book them in on arrival so that they can leave their bike at the car park entrance.</p><p> </p><p>Folding bikes cannot be processed through the security scanners at the Marsham Street reception.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/09/2018 13:41:16 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

969335

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Origin Marking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect products that benefit from protected geographical or traditional status under EU legislation.
tabling member printed	Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
uin	HL10165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the economic and cultural importance of UK geographical indications (GIs). We are working with the Devolved Administrations and stakeholders to develop new UK GI schemes for when we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>We will use the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to ensure that GI schemes are in place on day one of leaving the EU for wines, aromatised wines, spirit drinks, agricultural products and foodstuffs. This will provide UK protection for UK GIs when we leave the EU and ensure that the UK fulfils its obligations under World Trade Organisation Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights rules.</p><p> </p><p>The protection of UK GIs in the EU and EU GIs in the UK is subject to ongoing negotiations. We anticipate that all current UK GIs will continue to be protected by the EU’s GI schemes after we leave the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/09/2018 13:41:40 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4702 label Biography information for Lord McNicol of West Kilbride