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874749

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date	29/03/2018
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, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) making food available to those in food poverty and (b) other options as an alternative to landfill and incineration for the disposal of food waste.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	135050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>All waste operators are required to follow the waste hierarchy in managing waste (including food waste). This means that they should take all such measures as are reasonable in the circumstances to prevent, reuse or recycle food waste before considering recovery through incineration or sending to landfill. Where food waste cannot be prevented it should be recycled first through anaerobic digestion, or second, composting where reasonable before incineration. Sending food waste to landfill can lead to significant greenhouse gas emissions and is therefore a last resort. Many local authorities have introduced separate collection of food waste, and we will work to support an increase in numbers so that the amount of food waste sent to landfill continues to decline. The Government has announced an ambition to work towards sending zero food waste to landfill by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking action to support the redistribution of unsold edible and nutritious surplus stock food from businesses to individuals in need. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), supported by Defra, launched the Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March 2016 and business signatories including leading retailers, manufacturers and food redistribution organisations have agreed an ambition to work collaboratively with WRAP to double the amount of surplus food they redistribute by 2020 against a 2015 baseline of 15,000 tonnes. At the end of last year, the Government and WRAP announced a new £500,000 fund for charities who redistribute surplus food from food businesses to those in need.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/04/2018 11:25:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

874751

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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	FareShare
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 support his Department is providing to Fareshare to ensure that (a) food reaches poor families and (b) food waste is reduced.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	135052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has instigated a variety of actions to increase surplus food redistribution to ensure that it goes to people in need. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), supported by the government, launched the Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March 2016. The Courtauld Commitment 2025 is an ambitious ten year voluntary agreement that brings together organisations across the food system to identify priorities, develop solutions and implement changes at scale, both within signatory organisations and by spreading new best practice across the UK. Business signatories including Fareshare have agreed an ambition to work collaboratively with WRAP to double the amount of surplus food they redistribute by 2020 against a 2015 baseline of 15,000 tonnes.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of 2017, the Government announced a new £500,000 fund to be administered by WRAP to support charities, like Fareshare, to redistribute surplus food to those in need.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/04/2018 10:48:42 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

872637

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	Cattle: Transport
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 cattle movements in England were recorded by the British Cattle Movement Service in each year from 2008 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	134451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>England, Scotland &amp; Wales Movements</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>13,445,614</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>13,194,912</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>13,654,294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>14,570,411</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>13,810,509</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>13,736,427</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>13,742,163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>13,783,821</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>14,084,952</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>14,444,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/04/2018 10:33:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

872638

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	Cattle: Transport
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 cattle movements in England direct to slaughter were recorded by the British Cattle Movement Service in each year from 2008 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	134452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Animals killed at a Slaughterhouse in England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,600,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,720,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,603,906</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,582,713</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,653,013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,619,765</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,699,807</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,706,131</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/04/2018 10:38:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

872352

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Carbon Emissions
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 legal limit is for emissions of (a) PM 0.1 and (b) PM 1 particles; and what guidance his Department has issued on those emissions.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	134266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2018 answer text <p>There is no legal limit for PM0.1 and PM 1 particles, However, new Euro standards for diesel vehicles limit emissions for both the total particle mass as well as the number of particles emitted per kilometre. Particle number is a common measurement technique for assessment of smaller sized particles such as PM<sub>0.1 </sub>and PM<sub>1.</sub></p><p> </p><p>In addition, our National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) provides estimates of emissions from a wide range of man-made sources and includes estimates of PM<sub>0.1</sub>, PM<sub>1</sub> as well as PM<sub>2.5 </sub>and PM<sub>10</sub>. The NAEI is updated on an annual basis and is publically available at: <a href="http://naei.beis.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://naei.beis.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 10/04/2018 10:47:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

869386

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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	Countryside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the Report of Session 2017-19 of the Lords Select Committee on the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, The countryside at a crossroads: Is the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 still fit for purpose.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	133900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Report of Session 2017-19 of the Lords Select Committee on the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 ‘The countryside at a crossroads: Is the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 still fit for purpose?’ was published on 22 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has undertaken to reply within two months of the publication of the report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 27/03/2018 16:29:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

869387

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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	Poverty: Rural 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, if he will commission an independent investigation into the (a) causes and (b) effects of poverty in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	133901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>Defra works to champion rural needs and rural-proof policies across government, making sure they take account of the specific challenges and opportunities for rural areas. Defra has held a number of policy roundtables with a range of organisations to hear views on the challenges facing rural businesses and communities and to identify solutions to them.</p><p> </p><p>Government policy is based on economic prosperity and helping all people out of poverty wherever they are located.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/03/2018 13:09:56 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew