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708831

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 66174, what information her Department holds on the number of individual payments which were not paid within the Basic Payment Scheme payment window since January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2016, 1,729 claimants have received payments of around £50 million which were made outside the Basic Payment Scheme 2015 window which runs between 1 December 2015 and 30 June 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 66863 question first answered 13/03/2017 17:16:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

708832

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	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, what estimate her Department has made of the effect of recent fluctuations in the level of the pound on the payments to UK claimants under the CAP Basic Payment Scheme in each month since June 2016; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>CAP Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments for England are set in Euros and then converted into sterling. The exchange rate used is an average of the European Central Bank exchange rates set in September each year. There are no monthly variances. The rates used for BPS payments in 2015 and 2016 are:</p><p> </p><p>BPS exchange rate for 2015 was €1 = £0.73129.</p><p>BPS exchange rate for 2016 is €1 = £0.85228.</p><p> </p><p>The 2016 basic payment is expected to be around 19% higher than in 2015 for all farm types, reflecting the weaker exchange rate when payment rates in sterling were determined at the end of September 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/03/2017 14:23:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

708948

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Sky Lanterns
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 bring forward legislative proposals to regulate the use of sky lanterns to protect livestock on farms; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	66864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>An independent study published in 2013 to identify and assess the impacts and risks associated with sky lanterns suggested that the risks to animals or damage to the environment by sky lanterns were relatively minor, and reported that voluntary action and initiatives have been shown to be effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any action we take must be proportionate to the level of risk. An outright ban would be disproportionate in the circumstances, so across government, we have been taking forward a series of non-regulatory measures aimed at minimising the risks associated with sky lanterns and driving up safety standards. Local Authorities are also using existing powers to restrict or regulate the use of lanterns on council-owned land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/03/2017 13:13:08 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

708949

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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: Unpaid Work
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 people undertook an unpaid work placement in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>Defra does not retain details centrally on the number of work placements in the Department and to identify the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/03/2017 11:41:35 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708950

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Waste Management
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 officials in the Environment Agency are working on end of waste policy and programmes.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	66868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency does not develop policy, however, operational staff throughout the Environment Agency routinely give advice and guidance to operators on end of waste matters. The Environment Agency also has a Definition of Waste team, consisting of four staff members, with specific expertise on end of waste alongside other responsibilities in waste regulation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are other non-operational and legal experts in the Environment Agency who provide advice on end of waste matters as part of their wider responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2017 10:46:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

708951

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Business: 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 support her Department provides to businesses on the process for achieving end of waste status for their products.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	66920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has developed several different mechanisms to support businesses in determining whether products are waste or not. These include end of waste frameworks (Quality Protocols) for thirteen different waste streams, a self-assessment web tool ‘IsItWaste’, and published data on comparator non-waste materials. All support tools can be found on the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/turn-your-waste-into-a-new-non-waste-product-or-material" target="_blank">turn your waste into a new non-waste product</a> or material’ page on GOV.UK. Defra has also produced guidance on the legal definition of waste, also available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Businesses seeking support on achieving end of waste status for their products can also contact their local Environment Agency office for further advice and guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2017 10:58:25 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

708952

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Waste Management
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 officials in the Environment Agency have been employed by her Department to work on end of waste policy and programmes in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	66921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>In the last five years, no Environment Agency staff members have been employed by Defra to work on end of waste policy and programmes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2017 11:05:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

708953

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	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, what assessment she has made of the number of delayed individual payments which were not paid within the Basic Payment Scheme payment window since January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2016, 1,729 claimants have received payments of around £50 million which were made outside the Basic Payment Scheme 2015 window which runs between 1 December 2015 and 30 June 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 66880 question first answered 13/03/2017 17:16:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

708954

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Air Pollution: Lung Diseases
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 took (a) nationally and (b) in Bristol to ensure that people with a lung condition were aware of how best to protect their health during the high pollution episodes in January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	66923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>During the January 2017 air pollution episode, Defra issued daily tweets from the UK-Air Twitter account, which provided information about current air pollution levels and accompanying health advice. These included details of the affected regions and links to regionalised maps. These are routinely retweeted by Public Health England and are followed by journalists who use the information to inform their reporting, as well as health charities and campaign groups who regularly retweet information to vulnerable populations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra also issued a press release on 23<sup>rd</sup> January, which was updated on 24<sup>th</sup> January. This provided details of the episode, including the affected regions and health advice targeted both at the general population and vulnerable people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra also alerted its network of health charities. These alerts provided full details of the nature of the air pollution episode, its geographical location and anticipated duration and links to further information including specific health advice relevant to the episode. The health charities network includes the British Lung Foundation (BLF), who used social media (Twitter and Facebook) to communicate the information, along with the BLF’s own health advice, to their subscribers and patient support groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 66924 question first answered 13/03/2017 10:58:35 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

708955

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Air Pollution: Lung Diseases
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 took to (a) ensure that schools and nurseries had information on how to protect children's lungs and (b) notify hospitals to ensure that they were on alert for respiratory patients during the high pollution episode in January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	66924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>During the January 2017 air pollution episode, Defra issued daily tweets from the UK-Air Twitter account, which provided information about current air pollution levels and accompanying health advice. These included details of the affected regions and links to regionalised maps. These are routinely retweeted by Public Health England and are followed by journalists who use the information to inform their reporting, as well as health charities and campaign groups who regularly retweet information to vulnerable populations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra also issued a press release on 23<sup>rd</sup> January, which was updated on 24<sup>th</sup> January. This provided details of the episode, including the affected regions and health advice targeted both at the general population and vulnerable people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra also alerted its network of health charities. These alerts provided full details of the nature of the air pollution episode, its geographical location and anticipated duration and links to further information including specific health advice relevant to the episode. The health charities network includes the British Lung Foundation (BLF), who used social media (Twitter and Facebook) to communicate the information, along with the BLF’s own health advice, to their subscribers and patient support groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 66923 question first answered 13/03/2017 10:58:35 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy