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1140826

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Fly-tipping
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 proportion of fly-tipping incidents that were categorised as car boot sized in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	280371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The proportion of fly tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis, that are categorised as car boot sized is summarised in the table below. The detailed breakdown is only available from 2011/12.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield</p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p>The main ‘household’ categories for fly tipping waste include ‘black bag – household’ and ‘other household waste’, which could include the results of house or shed clearances, old furniture, carpets and the waste from small scale DIY works. There are also separate categories for white goods, electrical items and green waste which may originate from household or commercial sources. It is not possible to distinguish the original source. Incidents for these are much lower than the other two household categories so for this purpose the figures below do relate just to ‘black bags – household’ and ‘other household’ incidents.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of fly tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis, that contain household waste for these two main categories is summarised in the table below. The detailed breakdown is only available from 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>71%</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td><td><p>76%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>77%</p></td><td><p>69%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england</a>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 280373 question first answered 30/07/2019 14:26:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1140828

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Fly-tipping
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 proportion of fly-tipping incidents that contained household waste in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	280373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The proportion of fly tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis, that are categorised as car boot sized is summarised in the table below. The detailed breakdown is only available from 2011/12.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield</p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p>The main ‘household’ categories for fly tipping waste include ‘black bag – household’ and ‘other household waste’, which could include the results of house or shed clearances, old furniture, carpets and the waste from small scale DIY works. There are also separate categories for white goods, electrical items and green waste which may originate from household or commercial sources. It is not possible to distinguish the original source. Incidents for these are much lower than the other two household categories so for this purpose the figures below do relate just to ‘black bags – household’ and ‘other household’ incidents.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of fly tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis, that contain household waste for these two main categories is summarised in the table below. The detailed breakdown is only available from 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>71%</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td><td><p>76%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>77%</p></td><td><p>69%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england</a>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 280371 question first answered 30/07/2019 14:26:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1140863

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease 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, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the badger culling programme.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	280129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>During 2018, badger culling operations in 32 areas of England were all successful in meeting their targets. According to Natural England’s chief scientist, the results show that industry-led badger culling continues to deliver the level of effectiveness required by the policy to be confident of achieving disease control benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Assessments of the effectiveness of badger culling are published annually on gov.uk at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb-controlling-the-risk-of-bovine-tb-from-badgers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb-controlling-the-risk-of-bovine-tb-from-badgers</a></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 10:21:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1140884

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Waste Disposal: Fees and Charges
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 assessment he has made of the effect on the level of (a) household and (b) commercial waste taken to household waste recycling centres of local authorities introducing paid permits for vans to access those centres.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	280272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the effect that introducing paid permits for vans to access household waste and recycling centres has had on the level of (a) household and (b) commercial waste. Permit arrangements at household waste and recycling centres are a matter for local authority decision making.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 14:17:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1140932

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 pilot environmental land management schemes have been agreed, where those pilots will take place; and what the start date is for each such pilot.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	280135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>Tests and trials allow us to co-design and test the operability of elements of the new system and to understand if and how new elements of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme work in a real life environment. Tests and trials are not analysing methods of delivery of environmental outcomes rather how the scheme or innovative mechanism will operate.</p><p> </p><p>We received 113 proposals from stakeholders to conduct tests and trials of the new ELM scheme in phase one. We identified 49 of these which most closely matched the identified priorities and would help us test critical elements or building blocks of the new scheme. Of these 49, two have subsequently merged with other phase 1 proposals and one has withdrawn from the process, leaving 46.</p><p> </p><p>The national pilot is due to start in 2021. It will test different types of possible approaches to deliver the new ELM scheme, and the underlying scheme mechanics (such as the payments system) before the ELM scheme launches in 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/08/2019 08:31:24 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1141016

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	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 steps the Government has taken to ensure the adequacy of water supplies during heatwaves.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	280445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Water companies have a statutory duty to provide clean and reliable water to customers under the Water Industry Act 1991, whatever the weather. To fulfil this duty there is a statutory requirement to maintain water resources management plans, which balance water supply and demand at least twenty-five years into the future.</p><p>The Government, the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat issued guidance to water companies in 2016 on how they should be planning to supply water to a growing population, while protecting and enhancing our environment, including taking appropriate action to respond to climate projections. Water companies are currently revising their plans.</p><p>The Government is working closely with other water regulators and the water industry to improve the resilience of water supplies. The Government recognises continued action is required and it is committed to a ‘twin track approach’, of reducing demand for water and increasing supply in parallel.</p><p>The Government is taking steps to improve water resources planning to ensure that there is better collaboration between water companies and other water using sectors on their water supply resilience. This includes the EA developing a National Framework for water resources, which use evidence to illustrate the regional and national challenge of water availability. The Government has also consulted on legislative improvements to ensure that water companies’ plans are informed by effective collaboration.</p><p>Water companies have statutory drought plans in place to mitigate the impacts of prolonged dry weather and drought. Water companies are prepared for spikes in demand during high temperatures and manage their water resources to prevent impacts on customer supplies.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 280446 question first answered 30/07/2019 14:40:48 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1141017

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	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 steps the Government has taken to protect future water supplies against potential disruption caused by climate change.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	280446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Water companies have a statutory duty to provide clean and reliable water to customers under the Water Industry Act 1991, whatever the weather. To fulfil this duty there is a statutory requirement to maintain water resources management plans, which balance water supply and demand at least twenty-five years into the future.</p><p>The Government, the Environment Agency (EA) and Ofwat issued guidance to water companies in 2016 on how they should be planning to supply water to a growing population, while protecting and enhancing our environment, including taking appropriate action to respond to climate projections. Water companies are currently revising their plans.</p><p>The Government is working closely with other water regulators and the water industry to improve the resilience of water supplies. The Government recognises continued action is required and it is committed to a ‘twin track approach’, of reducing demand for water and increasing supply in parallel.</p><p>The Government is taking steps to improve water resources planning to ensure that there is better collaboration between water companies and other water using sectors on their water supply resilience. This includes the EA developing a National Framework for water resources, which use evidence to illustrate the regional and national challenge of water availability. The Government has also consulted on legislative improvements to ensure that water companies’ plans are informed by effective collaboration.</p><p>Water companies have statutory drought plans in place to mitigate the impacts of prolonged dry weather and drought. Water companies are prepared for spikes in demand during high temperatures and manage their water resources to prevent impacts on customer supplies.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 280445 question first answered 30/07/2019 14:40:48 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1141078

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Climate Change: Equality
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 assessment he has made of the effect of climate change on social and economic inequality in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	280167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made such a specific assessment though we do consider the distributional impact of our interventions on different groups, including low income households, in our adaptation planning.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-second-national-adaptation-programme-2018-to-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-second-national-adaptation-programme-2018-to-2023</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 31/07/2019 13:16:29 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141131

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Bees: Pesticides
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 EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed decision on 17 July 2019 to suspend the 2013 European Food Safety Authority guidance on bee safety tests for new pesticides, how the UK voted in that Standing Committee meeting; and what plans he has to prevent the approval of pesticides that can (a) destroy wild bee populations and (b) cause long-term harm to honeybees.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	280362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need to protect bee populations from the effects of pesticides. This requires an effective scientific means of assessing the risks and enabling sound decisions. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) drew up new guidance on the risk assessment in 2013, however this has not been adopted by the European Commission because a number of Member States had a variety of concerns about whether it was workable. The UK was among those proposing that the EFSA draft should be the starting point but that further work would be needed to develop it.</p><p> </p><p>The Commission has now decided to ask EFS to review the draft and, in the meantime to begin to introduce aspects of the draft that are considered to be more immediately implementable. The Standing Committee vote on 17 July was to make minor changes to the rules on assessing the risks of pesticides so as to reflect the partial implementation of the 2013 draft guidance.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the continuing development of a comprehensive and workable approach to important this issue as we build the national pesticides regime after the UK leaves the EU. We will work with stakeholders to develop an up to date approach that ensures that potential risks to bees can be properly assessed.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/08/2019 10:29:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1141143

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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	Rodents: Gough Island
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 has taken to tackle the mice infestation on Gough island.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	280227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund the Government has committed £2.1m towards the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which led the Gough Island Restoration Programme to eradicate non-native mice to save the critically endangered Tristan albatross and Gough bunting, and to help to maintain Gough Island’s status as a World Heritage Site.</p><p> </p><p>The final stage of the eradication project is planned to take place in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/07/2019 14:32:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell