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899958

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Pet Travel Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pet passports have been issued to UK pet owners in the past five years; and how many of those are still valid.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL7621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health agency (APHA) issue blank pet passports to approved Official veterinarian (OV) practices in the United Kingdom who then issue these for cats, dogs and ferrets to move under the Pet Travel scheme. The table below records the numbers of blank pet passports issued to OV practices by APHA over the past five years. APHA does not record the number of pet passports issued by OV practices to individual animals.</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>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</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91661</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The increase in the number of passports issued in 2015 reflects a revision to the document introduced in December 2014 through an EU Regulation covering pet movements.</p><p> </p><p>Pet passports remain valid for the lifetime of the pet or until all of the treatment spaces in the document have been used. As such APHA does not hold information on invalid passports.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 15/05/2018 11:57:24 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

899973

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Nature Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are considering a change to the protection afforded to Local Wildlife Sites; if so, why; and what assessment they have made of the effect of reduced protection for such sites.
tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
uin	HL7636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting Local Wildlife Sites and is not considering a change in the protection afforded to them. In our 25 Year Environment Plan we have committed to improving and extending our network of wildlife rich habitats, and Local Wildlife Sites are an important part of our existing habitat resource. We want to make sure that Local Wildlife Sites continue to be appropriately protected. The Housing Minister recently met the Wildlife Trusts and wrote to all MPs and Peers to make clear his commitment to ensuring clarity concerning these protections in the National Planning Policy Framework.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 16/05/2018 14:45:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

899992

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Fish: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they have undertaken or commissioned into the decline of stocks of wild salmon and sea trout, and the polluting effects of farmed salmon.
tabling member printed	Lord Steel of Aikwood
uin	HL7655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>Freshwater fisheries and aquaculture policy is devolved in the UK. In England, Defra has funded numerous projects on factors that could contribute to the decline in stocks of wild salmon and sea trout. These can be found on the Defra research database at <a href="http://randd.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://randd.defra.gov.uk/</a>. We have not commissioned any research on the potential environmental impacts of salmon farming in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations also have active research programmes on migratory fish and these can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525279/Background_Salmon_Report_2015_final.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525279/Background_Salmon_Report_2015_final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Salmon-Trout-Coarse/Freshwater/Research" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Salmon-Trout-Coarse/Freshwater/Research</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Salmon-Trout-Coarse/Freshwater/Research/Aqint" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Salmon-Trout-Coarse/Freshwater/Research/Aqint</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/digest-statistics-salmon-and-inland-fisheries-daera-jurisdiction-2017" target="_blank">https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/digest-statistics-salmon-and-inland-fisheries-daera-jurisdiction-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/05/2018 16:58:55 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	949 label Biography information for Lord Steel of Aikwood

899996

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Fisheries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when their fisheries white paper will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL7659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>We will be publishing a White Paper in due course. It will set out our future vision for sustainable fisheries management.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 10/05/2018 16:38:59 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

900069

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Incinerators
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 Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135379, for what reasons that answer states that there is no commercially available equipment for continuous monitoring of PM10 and PM 2.5 when in an assessment of PM10 and PM2.5 emissions from five energy-from-waste plants by Ricardo AEA Consultancy carried out for his Department and published on 6 January 2016 there is reference to both periodic and continuous emission measurements.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	141676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>The only reference to continuous measurement in the report is in Section 6 on page 14 which states “….periodic and continuous emission measurements undertaken for regulatory compliance indicated total PM emissions generally below 1 mg/m3 for these facilities….” which is clearly referring to measurement of total particulate emissions, rather than measurement of PM10 or PM2.5. The method by which PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations were measured is set out in section 3.1 of the report. This describes a type of periodic emissions measurement where particles from the exhaust gases are collected onto a material which is weighed in a laboratory before and after the sampling procedure in order to determine the mass of PM10 or PM2.5 collected. The results of this (together with the measurement of the exhaust gas flow rate recorded during the sampling period) are then used to calculate the concentration of these particles in the exhaust gases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/05/2018 15:57:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

900070

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Incinerators
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason annual reports regarding emissions of particulate matter from energy from waste sites at (a) Twinwoods Heat and Power Bedfordshire, (b) Thetford Power Station, (c) Stallingborough, (d) Hartlepool Power Station, (e) Immingham Dock, (f) Oldbury, (g) Exeter Energy From Waste, (h) Slough heat and Power and (i) Calder Valley Incineration were not included in the 2016 Pollution Inventory.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	141677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Total particulate matter is continuously monitored at all operational waste incinerators.</p><p>The reason emissions of particulate matter from some waste sites were omitted from the pollution inventory is that their emissions were below reporting thresholds in 2016. This includes Thetford Power Station, Stallinborough, Oldbury, Slough Heat and Power, and Exeter Energy From Waste.</p><p>Annual reports regarding emissions of particulate matter from Twinwoods Heat and Power Bedfordshire were not included in the 2016 pollution inventory because no report was submitted by the operator. The Environment Agency is currently reviewing why no report was submitted by the operator in 2016 and will ensure that all emissions data is proided as required under the relevant legislation.</p><p>No emissions were reported from the Immingham Dock and Calder Valley incinerators because they were non-operational in 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Hartlepool Power Station is a nuclear power station and not an energy from waste site.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/05/2018 14:45:17 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

900112

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Agriculture: Apprentices
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 number of apprenticeship starts across the food, farming and agri-tech sector in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	141680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Data on apprenticeship starts is published on Gov.uk and can be found in the Further Education (FE) data library.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library</a></p><p> </p><p>The FE library contains searchable tools that allow apprenticeship starts to be analysed using both the old apprenticeship frameworks, which will be replaced by 2020, and the new apprenticeship standards. Data can be further broken down by factors such as age group and level. Data specifically covering frameworks/standards can be found at the links below:</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 and 2015/16 academic years:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643191/Apprenticeships-framework-SSA-data-tool.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643191/Apprenticeships-framework-SSA-data-tool.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>2016/17 academic year:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661049/201617_apprenticeships_by_framework_and_sector_subject_area.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661049/201617_apprenticeships_by_framework_and_sector_subject_area.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>2017/18 academic year (August 2017 to January 2018) reported to date:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694143/Q2_201718_apprenticeships_by_SSA_framework.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694143/Q2_201718_apprenticeships_by_SSA_framework.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/05/2018 14:33:34 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

900113

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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 estimate his Department has made of the average real terms investment in the water supply infrastructure in each year since 1988; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	141681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>Since privatisation in 1989 the water industry has invested approximately £4.9 billion per year on average (in 2016/17 prices) in both water supply and wastewater infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>Ofwat calculates that between the years of 1989 to 2018 the following amounts have been invested in water supply:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1989 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1990</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 1991</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1992</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 1993</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1994</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 1995</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1996</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1997 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Water </strong> <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Capital Investment (£ billion)</strong></p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>1998</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1999</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2001</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2002</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2003</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2004</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2005</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2007</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Ofwat has also calculated the 1988 total capital expenditure for water and wastewater combined as £3.7 billion. A breakdown of capital expenditure between water supply and wastewater infrastructure is not available pre-1989.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are in 2016/17 prices using RPI financial year average.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/05/2018 15:54:28 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

900148

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Countryside
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 25 Year Environment Plan policy paper published by his Department in January 2018, what the timescale is for the proposed review of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; and how that review will be conducted.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	141678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government announced its intention to conduct a review of national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty for the 21st century through the 25 Year Environment Plan. Further details on how the review will be conducted will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/05/2018 15:50:09 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

900160

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
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	Dogs: Smuggling
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 answer question 138535, on Dogs: Smuggling, how many puppies were seized at Dover and Folkestone and placed in quarantine under the Puppy Pilot in (a) each month between 1 October 2017 and 31 March 2018 and (b) April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	141888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of puppies seized and quarantined at Dover and Folkestone under the Puppy Pilot from 1 October 2017 to 30 April 2018 are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Puppies seized and quarantined</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2017</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2017</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2017</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2018</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2018</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/05/2018 15:41:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris