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723775

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Fly-tipping
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proposals they have to reduce the amount of fly tipping in the UK; and when any such proposals will be introduced.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL6817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial"><em>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</em></del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Fly-tipping is unacceptable whether it occurs on public or private land. Not only does it blight the areas in which it occurs but may also pose a risk to the environment and human health.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In May 2016 we gave local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices of up to £400 for small-scale fly-tipping as an alternative to more costly prosecutions. This built on other action to tackle fly-tipping, including: working with the sentencing Council on its sentencing guideline for environmental offences; making it easier for vehicles suspected of being involved in waste crime to be stopped, searched and seized; continuing to chair the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group to promote and disseminate good practice for tackling fly-tipping; strengthening the waste Duty of Care by publishing a revised Code of Practice and supporting the industry-led Right Waste Right Place campaign to promote Duty of Care to small businesses.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/04/2017 10:57:54 question first ministerially corrected 27/04/2017 15:06:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble previous answer version 46577 answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

723842

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Dogs: Sales
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 the Government will take steps to ensure that puppies are not sold without their mothers being present.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p /><p> </p><p>The Government set out its position on this and other recommendations in its response, which was published in February, to the review by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs, entitled <em>Animal Welfare in England: Domestic Pets. </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/04/2017 06:57:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond

723845

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Recycling: Publicity
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 she is taking to improve people's knowledge of the merits of recycling.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	71710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra works with local authorities and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to provide advice and promote best practice among local authorities on waste and recycling. Local councils, and householders have played a key role in increasing the UK’s recycling rate from 11% at the turn of the century to 44% in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Greater consistency in local authority recycling – taking account of best practice – in particular has potential to increase recycling rates further. WRAP are working with an Advisory Group of waste stakeholders, to look at the benefits and opportunities from having greater consistency in the materials collected and collection systems to enable local authorities to recycle more, and to make it easier for householders to put the right materials in the right bin.</p><p> </p><p>Recycle Now, launched in 2004, is the national recycling campaign for England. It is supported and funded by Defra and managed by WRAP. It is used locally by over 90% of Local Authorities in England and includes information to inform people about the many items that can be recycled around the home.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 71711 question first answered 27/04/2017 06:16:42 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

723846

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Recycling: Standards
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 she is taking to spread best practice on recycling.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	71711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra works with local authorities and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to provide advice and promote best practice among local authorities on waste and recycling. Local councils, and householders have played a key role in increasing the UK’s recycling rate from 11% at the turn of the century to 44% in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Greater consistency in local authority recycling – taking account of best practice – in particular has potential to increase recycling rates further. WRAP are working with an Advisory Group of waste stakeholders, to look at the benefits and opportunities from having greater consistency in the materials collected and collection systems to enable local authorities to recycle more, and to make it easier for householders to put the right materials in the right bin.</p><p> </p><p>Recycle Now, launched in 2004, is the national recycling campaign for England. It is supported and funded by Defra and managed by WRAP. It is used locally by over 90% of Local Authorities in England and includes information to inform people about the many items that can be recycled around the home.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 71710 question first answered 27/04/2017 06:16:42 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

723847

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Neonicotinoids
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 24 April 2017 to Question 71069, how many emergency authorisation applications for the use of neonicotinoid pesticides the Government has approved in the last (a) 12 and (b) 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	71757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p /><p>Three neonicotinoids are currently subject to restrictions which normally prohibit their use on a number of crops. Two emergency authorisations have been granted for the use of these restricted neonicotinoids. Those authorisations, issued in July 2015, allowed limited and controlled use on oilseed rape until November 2015. In total, eight applications for use of the same neonicotinoids have been turned down between 2015 and 2017. All decisions are made on the basis of advice from the independent UK Expert Committee on Pesticides.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/04/2017 06:55:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

723848

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	FairFuelUK
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 she has responded to FairFuelUK's letter of 7 April 2017 requesting a meeting on taxation and diesel cars; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury has responsibility for taxation and the letter has been passed on for the responsible Minister to respond.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 26/04/2017 11:59:49 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond

723849

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Curlews: Conservation
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 (a) protect and retain habitats for the curlew and (b) further assist in fox and crow control to maintain curlew numbers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	71718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 27/04/2017 06:56:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

723850

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Agriculture: Glyphosate
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 she is taking to ensure that glyphosate continues to be available for use by farmers after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Steve Baker
uin	71738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p /><p> </p><p>Glyphosate is important to British farming and there would be real difficulties if it were no longer available. UK and EU experts have identified no safety concerns which would preclude the continuing use of glyphosate.</p><p> </p><p>Defra considers that decisions on the use of pesticides should be based on a careful scientific assessment of the risks, with the aim of achieving a high level of protection for people and the environment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/04/2017 06:56:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

723851

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Dogs: Sales
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 an assessment of the International Fund for Animal Welfare's proposals of February 2017 to (a) ban sales of puppies through third party intermediaries, (b) ensure all dog purchases are traceable through a robust licensing system and (c) place greater legal restrictions on online puppy sales.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	71815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p /><p>The Government set out its position on these and other recommendations in its response, which was published in February, to the review by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs, entitled <em>Animal Welfare in England: Domestic Pets. </em></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/04/2017 06:57:08 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

723904

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Dangerous Dogs
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 defendants received the maximum permissible sentence under section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	71742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 27/04/2017 06:59:31 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson