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64504

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date	27/06/2014
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	Recycling: York
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 waste collected in City of York has been recycled in each year since 2008-09; and what funding his Department provided to City of York local authority to increase recycling rates in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The proportion of household waste collected in City of York which was recycled for the five years since 2008/9 is presented in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage <br> (Rounded)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/9</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The proportion of all waste collected by City of York Council (household and non-household) which was recycled for the five years since 2008/9 is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage<br> (Rounded)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These statistics are taken from data submitted by the Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities receive revenue support grant and council tax to fund waste collection and disposal. These funds are not ring-fenced. We have no record of funding to York City Council specifically to increase recycling rates over this period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 03/07/2014 10:53:37 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64505

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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	Forests
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 has been spent on biodiversity on the public forest estate in each year since 2004-05.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>While all sustainable forest management on the public forest estate can benefit biodiversity, the following table shows the money spent by the Forestry Commission specifically for the benefit of biodiversity:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Financial year</em></p></td><td><p><em>Spend on public forest estate (£)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>2,719,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>3,673,847</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>4,785,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>3,871,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>4,456,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>4,787,026</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>5,196,665</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>4,132,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>3,730,628</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>3,831,024</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 03/07/2014 10:59:31 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64506

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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	Organic Farming: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 land in Yorkshire was given over to organic farming in each year since 2008-09.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The table below shows the areas of “in conversion” and fully organic land in the Yorkshire and the Humber region from 2008 to 2013, which is the most recent year that these data are available. Data is not available just for Yorkshire.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Area of Organic Land in Yorkshire and the Humber region*</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p>Thousand hectares</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In-conversion land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>3</p><p>12</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>1</p><p>14</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>1</p><p>13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fully organic land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total organic land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Source: Organic Certification Bodies in the UK.</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Please note that totals may not necessarily agree with the sum of their components due to rounding.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>* Data is collected during the annual inspections of organic operators. Due to the nature of annual inspections, the data is collected at varying times throughout the year. Therefore, the data presented here does not give an exact snapshot of organic farming at any specific time of year. It should be treated with a degree of caution.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/07/2014 15:07:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64508

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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	Forests: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 hectares of Forestry Commission public forest estate there was in Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2008-09; and what the make-up of such forest was.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The latest figures for area of the Forestry Commission public forest estate in the Yorkshire and Humber region are set out in the table below. The data is organised to show area of coniferous woodland and broadleaved woodland. Land on the public forest estate which does not fall into either of these two categories is shown as ‘other'; this includes open habitats and land waiting to be restocked after felling.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em> </em></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></tr><tr><td><p><em>Broadleaved</em></p></td><td><p>2,488</p></td><td><p>2,594</p></td><td><p>2,680</p></td><td><p>2,704</p></td><td><p>2,749</p></td><td><p>2,782</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Conifer</em></p></td><td><p>15,015</p></td><td><p>14,726</p></td><td><p>14,446</p></td><td><p>14,285</p></td><td><p>14,030</p></td><td><p>13,923</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Other</em></p></td><td><p>4,267</p></td><td><p>4,362</p></td><td><p>4,244</p></td><td><p>4,259</p></td><td><p>4,469</p></td><td><p>4,545</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,779 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,693 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,382 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,260 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,261 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 23,264 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 03/07/2014 10:21:03 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64509

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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	Forests
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 Government spending there was on public forest estate in each year since 2008-09.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Government spending on the public forest estate since 2008-09 has been as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2008/9</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ (million)</p></td><td><p>18.7m</p></td><td><p>14.3m</p></td><td><p>7.9m</p></td><td><p>14.6m</p></td><td><p>26.1m</p></td><td><p>19.9m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 03/07/2014 10:28:18 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley