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722096

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Freedom of Information
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 staff in her Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>FOI requests may be responded to by any member of staff across the Department, as they are allocated to the most appropriate person to respond depending on the subject of the request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 26/04/2017 11:56:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

712938

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions her Department took longer than 30 working days to respond to a freedom of information request in each month since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	68667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 24 March to question number 68042.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/03/2017 10:56:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711446

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Freedom of Information
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 response rate was of her Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	68042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>Response rates for Freedom of Information requests received by Defra are published quarterly on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Information has been published up to September 2016 and subsequent figures will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/03/2017 10:47:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

706731

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
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	Microplastics: USA
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 28 February 2017 to Question 65352, what plans she has to meet the United States Environment Protection Agency to discuss the use of microbeads.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	66256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>Defra will continue to monitor the progress of the US ban, but has no plans to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the use of microbeads.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/03/2017 14:03:36 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

693738

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
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	Microplastics: USA
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 officials from her Department met counterparts from the Environmental Protection Agency in the US to discuss that country's ban on the production of personal care products and cosmetics which contain plastic microbeads.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	65353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>Defra officials have been in discussions with the US Food &amp; Drug Administration to help develop aspects of the UK approach on which we are currently consulting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/02/2017 12:04:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

693739

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
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	Microplastics
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 officials from her Department have met officials from the World Health Organisation to discuss a ban on the use of microbead products.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	65358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>Defra has not met with the World Health Organisation to discuss<ins class="ministerial"> microplastics</ins>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/02/2017 12:07:25 question first ministerially corrected 28/02/2017 17:36:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey previous answer version 37453 answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

693740

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
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	Microplastics: USA
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 her Department will monitor the effectiveness of the US ban on microbeads which is due to come into effect in July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	65352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/02/2017 12:24:30 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

693741

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
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	Microplastics
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 her Department will conduct an assessment of the potential biological effects of microbead products including those not in her Department's proposed ban.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	65332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>Defra funded a study on micro plastics that was published last year and which has contributed to our knowledge base in formulating the consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/02/2017 15:33:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

670208

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
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	Livestock: Homeopathy
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 guidance is issued by her Department on the efficacy of homeopathy treatment in livestock.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	59017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>All veterinary medicines, including homeopathics, that make medicinal claims (treatment or prevention of disease) must provide data to demonstrate their efficacy and require a full marketing authorisation in order to be sold in the UK. Guidance on the efficacy data required to gain a marketing authorisation is provided by the European Medicines Agency.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no homeopathic veterinary medicines authorised with medicinal claims.</p><p> </p><p>The veterinary homeopathic products on the market have all been registered either through the homeopathic registration scheme or are on the ‘Grandfather list’. These products are not permitted to make medicinal claims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/01/2017 15:59:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

621963

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of senior civil service graded posts in her Department classified as (i) deputy director, (ii) assistant director, (iii) team leader and (iv) policy manager have been based outside London in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	50399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The number and proportion of Deputy Director SCS posts based outside London as at 30 September for each year since 2014 is shown below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>SCS Pay Band 1</strong> <strong>(Deputy Director)</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: % shown is of total SCS based outside London, rounded to the nearest whole number</p><p> </p><p>We do not use the descriptor Assistant Director in Defra; Team Leader and Policy Manager posts are below SCS level.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/11/2016 15:54:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne