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1136717

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
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: Overtime
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 he has made of the amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	272751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Information relating to unpaid overtime worked by staff is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 08/07/2019 16:53:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105274

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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: ICT
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 working on the Defra Unity Programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>As of 27 March 2019 the Defra Unity Programme employed:</p><p> </p><p>(a) Contingent Labour = 49.40 FTE</p><p>(b) Supplier Resource 6.90 FTE</p><p>(c) Civil Servants = 3.90 FTE</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/04/2019 15:06:44 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1088709

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	High Speed 2 Line
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 ensure that High Speed Two will not affect the protection of woodlands.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	232522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has a manifesto commitment to ensure stronger protection for our ancient woodlands, and the irreplaceable nature of ancient woodlands is recognised in our 25 Year Environment Plan. Defra and its statutory bodies are working closely with HS2 Ltd. and the Department for Transport to make sure that environmental impacts resulting from HS2, including protection of woodland and loss of ancient woodland, are considered and minimised.</p><p>Natural England and the Environment Agency have service level agreements with HS2 Ltd. to advise on the development of HS2, including on avoiding, as far as practicable, loss to ancient woodlands. Natural England has also provided information to help inform HS2 Ltd.’s Ancient Woodland Strategies.</p><p> </p><p>The HS2 Woodland Fund has been established for Phase 1 to support the restoration of existing plantations on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) and the creation of new native woodland.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England is also working with HS2 Ltd to identify ancient woodland within HS2’s route corridor which is not on the Ancient Woodland Inventory. Natural England and HS2 work together to minimise impacts on ancient woodland and to maximise opportunities for compensatory measures during detailed design, where unavoidable loss occurs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 232524 question first answered 22/03/2019 10:18:08 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1088710

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	High Speed 2 Line
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 ensure that High Speed Two will not affect the bird nesting season.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	232523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Wild birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it an offence to intentionally kill or injure a bird. High Speed Two must demonstrate how it is ensuring that the project does not affect birds during the nesting season.</p><p> </p><p>High Speed Two and its contractors have ecology technical standards, which set out how they will reduce risk if work is needed in the bird breeding season. This includes producing an appropriate working method statement in advance of the work commencing and supervision provided by the Ecological Clerk of Works.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wild-birds-protection-surveys-and-licences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wild-birds-protection-surveys-and-licences</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/03/2019 10:49:50 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1088711

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	High Speed 2 Line
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 prevent loss of ancient woodland as a result of High Speed Two.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	232524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has a manifesto commitment to ensure stronger protection for our ancient woodlands, and the irreplaceable nature of ancient woodlands is recognised in our 25 Year Environment Plan. Defra and its statutory bodies are working closely with HS2 Ltd. and the Department for Transport to make sure that environmental impacts resulting from HS2, including protection of woodland and loss of ancient woodland, are considered and minimised.</p><p>Natural England and the Environment Agency have service level agreements with HS2 Ltd. to advise on the development of HS2, including on avoiding, as far as practicable, loss to ancient woodlands. Natural England has also provided information to help inform HS2 Ltd.’s Ancient Woodland Strategies.</p><p> </p><p>The HS2 Woodland Fund has been established for Phase 1 to support the restoration of existing plantations on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) and the creation of new native woodland.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England is also working with HS2 Ltd to identify ancient woodland within HS2’s route corridor which is not on the Ancient Woodland Inventory. Natural England and HS2 work together to minimise impacts on ancient woodland and to maximise opportunities for compensatory measures during detailed design, where unavoidable loss occurs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 232522 question first answered 22/03/2019 10:18:08 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1058842

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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: Consultants
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 value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	219289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Details of central Government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 18/02/2019 12:34:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1054664

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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: Secondment
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 civil servants from his Department have been seconded to the Department for Exiting the European Union since 1 January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	216120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Defra can confirm that no staff have been seconded to DExEU since 1 January 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/02/2019 14:10:01 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1046924

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	211647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Defra provides quarterly data to The Infrastructure and Projects Authority on its Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) projects including the full time equivalent (FTE) number of public servants and contractors working on those projects.</p><p>Defra had four projects in the GMPP in 2016. These included TEAM2100, Thames Tideway Tunnel and CAP Delivery, which are no longer part of the GMPP. The only Defra project remaining on the portfolio is UnITy.</p><p>Data for Q3 (December) 2018 is not yet available so we have provided Q2 (September) data instead.</p><p>Based on information available we can confirm the following figures:</p><ul><li>Q2 (September) 2016: 93.9 public sector FTE and 186.2 external contractor FTE working across the four projects making a total of 280.1 FTE.</li><li>Q2 (September) 2018: 5.6 public sector FTE and 61 external contractor FTE working on UnITy making a total of 66.6 FTE.</li></ul><p>These figures do not include public sector staff from outside core project teams.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/01/2019 15:38:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1003685

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
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: Billing
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 contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	189567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>All contracts issued by Defra contain, within the standard terms and conditions, the following clauses:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>The authority shall pay all sums due to the contractor within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>If a payment of an undisputed amount is not made by the authority by the due date, then the authority shall pay the contractor interest at the interest rate specified in the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The contractor shall ensure that a provision is included in all subcontracts which requires payment to be made of all sums due to subcontractors within 30 days of the receipt of a valid invoice.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/11/2018 10:59:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

999305

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	186200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>Defra, along with other Departments, publishes spend over £25,000 on a monthly basis as part of its transparency data routine publication which is accessible here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/91072f06-093a-41a2-b8b5-6f120ceafd62/spend-over-25-000-in-the-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/dataset/91072f06-093a-41a2-b8b5-6f120ceafd62/spend-over-25-000-in-the-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs</a></p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 09/11/2018 15:00:22 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett