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517940

registered interest
date	06/05/2016
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	Ragwort
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question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has withdrawn the Code of Practice on how to prevent the spread of ragwort; and what plans she has to consult with stakeholders and bring forward regulations under the Ragwort Control Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	36740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Code of Practice on How to Prevent the Spread of Ragwort is not being withdrawn. The Code will remain available on the GOV.UK website and all interested parties will be consulted if any changes are made in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/05/2016 16:01:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

517797

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Squirrels: Pest Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential for the reintroduction of pine martens into areas of the UK that are infested with grey squirrels.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL8220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Forestry Commission is involved in the Vincent Wildlife Trust’s pine marten recovery project in mid and north Wales. The Forestry Commission in England is supporting a project in the Forest of Dean with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, Forest Research and others to pursue a pine marten restoration project. This project includes studies into impacts of pine martens including on trees and other wildlife. Natural England is also working with the Trust to restore viable populations of pine martens to northern England.</p><p> </p><p>The Forestry Commission is also working closely with one of the authors of the paper that identified the decline in grey squirrel populations in the Irish midlands, which may be associated with the abundance of pine martens. The work with the author and others will further explore the relationship between red squirrels, grey squirrels and pine martens in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL8221 question first answered 11/05/2016 16:12:48 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

517798

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Squirrels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have gathered on the reported decline of grey squirrels in areas with pine marten populations.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL8221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Forestry Commission is involved in the Vincent Wildlife Trust’s pine marten recovery project in mid and north Wales. The Forestry Commission in England is supporting a project in the Forest of Dean with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Natural England, Forest Research and others to pursue a pine marten restoration project. This project includes studies into impacts of pine martens including on trees and other wildlife. Natural England is also working with the Trust to restore viable populations of pine martens to northern England.</p><p> </p><p>The Forestry Commission is also working closely with one of the authors of the paper that identified the decline in grey squirrel populations in the Irish midlands, which may be associated with the abundance of pine martens. The work with the author and others will further explore the relationship between red squirrels, grey squirrels and pine martens in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL8220 question first answered 11/05/2016 16:12:48 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

517799

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Woodland Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current level of financial support they provide to the Woodland Trust and its tree planting programme, and whether they have any plans to increase that support over the next four years.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL8222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>In the last financial year, the Government provided £55,338.12 to the Woodland Trust, to plant 35,400 trees with state primary schools across England in spring 2016. This support will increase over the next four years, as we expand the programme to fund the Woodland Trust to provide an additional 400,000 trees for schools for schoolchildren to plant in school grounds and local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The Woodland Trust can apply for grants under the Countryside Stewardship scheme, as part of the Rural Development Programme, in the same way as any other land owner or manager and it receives grants from previous support mechanisms.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 11/05/2016 16:08:14 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

517800

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Tree Planting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have gathered on the contribution that the 64 million new trees to be planted by the Woodland Trust in England would make to carbon reduction or capture.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL8223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not gathered any information about the contribution these trees would make towards carbon reduction or capture. However, the Forestry Commission’s Woodland Carbon Code Carbon Lookup Tables, suggest that 64 million trees planted as woodland could capture 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the first 50 years of their life.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/05/2016 10:12:58 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

517812

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Food: Waste
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 she will make it her policy to require supermarkets to donate food to food banks and other charities.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	36683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I am replying as the Minister with responsibility for food waste.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomes the redistribution of good quality surplus food to charities that can make sure it goes to people rather than going to waste.</p><p> </p><p>Based on our experience, a simple law or requirement obliging supermarkets to donate food would not fix the barriers to redistribution. We need to look at the bigger picture. Less than 10% of food wasted in the supply chain is from supermarkets, so we need the whole chain to work together.</p><p> </p><p>Facilitated and supported by government, all major retailers now have arrangements in place to redistribute surplus food. Action taken by retailers to redistribute surplus food includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Morrisons have announced that, from January 2016, any unsold safe food will go to redistribution organisations</li><li>Tesco are making use of an app which links supermarkets with redistribution organisations</li><li>Asda are working with FareShare to redistribute food</li></ul><p> </p><p>Signatories to the voluntary Courtauld Commitment with industry have reported a 74% increase between 2012 and end 2014, and we expect it to increase further.</p><p> </p><p>We want to achieve more. Last year, the Secretary of State held a meeting with industry and redistribution organisations to take stock of progress on food redistribution. Outcomes from this include the recent publication of a Redistribution Framework to help facilitate closer working between potential donors and recipients of food surpluses. Research has been commissioned by WRAP to identify where and why waste and surpluses occur in the supply chain to inform further action to increase waste prevention and redistribution.</p><p>Following the success of earlier agreements, WRAP launched The Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March. This is an ambitious new agreement that takes a whole food supply chain approach, and will build on the progress we have already made to prevent waste, including through the redistribution of surplus food.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/05/2016 15:35:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

517833

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Tree Planting: Urban Areas
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 her Department is taking to support tree planting in towns.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the social and environmental benefits of urban trees. We will champion the Vision for a Resilient Urban Forest, developed by the Urban Forestry and Woodlands Advisory Committee Network. This Vision sets the direction and challenges local decision makers and communities to consider how they can better value, manage and expand the urban forest in their areas.</p><p> </p><p>Millions of schoolchildren across England, mostly in urban areas, will have the chance to plant trees in their communities as part of a Government-backed scheme to give free trees to schools in partnership with the Woodland Trust.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/05/2016 09:45:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517834

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
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	Tree Planting
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 progress the Government has made on its target to plant 11 million trees by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Forestry Commission publishes progress against the 11 million trees target quarterly. The latest report shows that over 640,000 trees have been planted towards meeting the 11 million target in 2015. This reflects the fact that we are at the opening stage of a new grant scheme. We are confident that more trees will be planted in the next phases of the scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/05/2016 15:12:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517434

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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	Agriculture: Scotland
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 she has made of the potential effect on farmers in (a) Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and (b) Scotland of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	36459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union. The Government's position is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/05/2016 11:35:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

517435

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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	White Fish
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 has been the change in sea bass stocks available to the UK fishing industry since the Council of European Fisheries Ministers meeting in 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	36537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Updated scientific advice is expected from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea at the end of June this year, which will provide the latest assessment. However, the overall estimated reductions of the EU bass measures for the main gear groups in the commercial sector are set out in the Table below (calculated for the UK fleet). These are estimates which take into account the effects of the initial six-month moratorium, related derogations and the subsequent monthly vessel catch limits.</p><p> </p><p>Those parts of the industry that use hook-and-line and fixed gillnets benefit from derogations in the form of higher monthly catch limits and a moratorium of two, rather than six, months.</p><p> </p><p>More in-depth analysis, also taking into account additional factors such as the effects of the 2015 increase in the minimum conservation reference size for bass, and reduced availability, will be undertaken.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Gear type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Previous average tonnage, 2011-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated tonnage catch potential for 2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated reduction from 2011-13 average (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bottom Trawl</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nets</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hook and line</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purse seine</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>pelagic trawl</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Totals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>813</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>460</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>43</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table. Estimated reductions in catch potential for UK bass stocks (%).</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/05/2016 15:57:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell