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1140539

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
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 tipper lorry load size or larger 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	279424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>Enforcement actions reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis are summarised in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 - 11</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>10,357</p></td><td><p>568,052</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 - 12</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>11,666</p></td><td><p>489,815</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>503</p></td><td><p>10,555</p></td><td><p>425,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>12,502</p></td><td><p>499,563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>19,083</p></td><td><p>514,914</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>14,026</p></td><td><p>494,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>299</p></td><td><p>13,783</p></td><td><p>475,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>15,118</p></td><td><p>494,127</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield</p><p> </p><p> </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><strong></strong></p><p>Fixed penalty notice actions reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis are summarised in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>In May 2016, local authorities in England were given the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small scale fly-tipping so these will be captured in the data for 2016/17 and 2017/18. Prior to this date, local authorities issued fly-tippers with fixed penalty notices in relation to littering, duty of care or anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire*</p></td><td><p>All England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 - 11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>32,963</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 - 12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>39,314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>35,433</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>36,835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>38,149</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>35,888</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>57,271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>68,711</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield</p><p> </p><p> </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>Clearance costs for tipper lorry load fly-tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis are summarised in the table below. Note that the information can only be provided for local authorities in England and not for the UK. Details for individual local authorities are within the published datasets. Clearance costs are available from 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>England (excluding Barnsley)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 - 12</p></td><td><p>£39,561</p></td><td><p>£3,007,304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>£22,461</p></td><td><p>£3,321,934</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>£15,892</p></td><td><p>£4,233,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>£27,435</p></td><td><p>£4,841,433</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>£14,419</p></td><td><p>£3,969,584</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>£14,125</p></td><td><p>£6,083,243</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>£16,035</p></td><td><p>£6,472,430</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </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>Clearance costs for significant multi-load fly-tipping reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis are summarised in the table below. Details for individual local authorities are within the published datasets. Clearance costs are available from 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>England (excluding Barnsley)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 - 12</p></td><td><p>£25,708</p></td><td><p>£1,083,106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>£4,189</p></td><td><p>£1,780,035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>£28,564</p></td><td><p>£1,982,186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>£8,170</p></td><td><p>£2,390,794</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>£17,163</p></td><td><p>£1,469,067</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>£14,808</p></td><td><p>£3,827,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>£13,634</p></td><td><p>£5,745,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </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>The proportion of fly-tipping incidents reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis that are categorised as tipper lorry load or larger (significant/multi-load) is summarised in the table below. The detailed breakdown is available from 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </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>15%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 13</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield</p><p> </p><p> </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> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 279421 279422 279423 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:18:31 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1140574

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Credit Unions
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 9 July 2019 to Question 271328, for what reasons his Department does not offer a payroll deduction service to enable employees to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	279364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Defra does not currently have the facility for employees to join a credit union through payroll deductions. Staff can make arrangements to contribute to a credit union via direct debit.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is currently investigating options for enhancing Employee Financial Wellbeing as part of a cross Civil Service pilot. Once the pilot is complete, my department will be considering options for our staff, including the possibility of credit unions.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1140605

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
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	Birds: 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, whether he plans to include provisions in the proposed Environment Bill to tackle the use of netting on hedges, hedgerows and trees on development sites.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	279456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Bill measures are currently being finalised and will be published in due course.</p><p>On netting specifically, while it is not an offence to use netting to exclude birds from potential nesting sites, such action should only be used to help protect birds during development. It is for those who take exclusion measures to ensure the mesh size of netting is suitable for the species involved and is properly maintained so they don’t harm wild birds. We expect local planning authorities to look at these practices closely and take appropriate action where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/07/2019 16:20:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1140181

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Poultry: Antibiotics
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 plans his Department has to reduce the use of antibiotics in chicken farming.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The British Poultry Council, representing 90% of UK chicken meat, reported a reduction in use from 49 mg/kg in 2014 to 10 mg/kg in 2017 (latest data). Their current published ambition is to keep use below 25 mg/kg.</p><p> </p><p>The UK national cross-government 5 Year action plan on antibiotic resistance includes our commitment to work with vets and farmers to keep sector targets under review and define new antibiotic use objectives by 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 14:59:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140185

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Sewage: Waste Disposal
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 number of sewage releases by water companies in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278965 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140186

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Sewage: Waste Disposal
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 sewage releases there were by water company in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278964 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140231

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Plastics: Recycling
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 he plans to increase support for catalytic chemical recycling and upcycling to realise the ambition of zero plastic waste.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	278919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>£4.7 million of grant funding was announced on 12 June and made available through the Waste &amp; Resources Action Programme, to support new capital infrastructure projects that will help to recycle difficult plastic packaging and textile materials.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also incentivises business-led technology innovation through Innovate UK and its role to fund business-led innovation through the allocation of competitively awarded grants. This fund has previously supported chemicals recycling projects. Further details on Innovate UK are available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/innovate-uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/innovate-uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/07/2019 15:51:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1140244

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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, what progress the Government has made in planning for farm payments in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament, expected in 2022; this includes all funding provided for farm support under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This commitment applies to the whole of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has further guaranteed that the current level of agricultural funding under CAP Pillar 1 will be upheld until 2020, as part of the transition to new domestic arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>To deliver this, Defra has made a number of statutory instruments under the powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. These statutory instruments provide certainty and stability to individuals and businesses by maintaining the current approach, ensuring the relevant EU-derived domestic legislation is operable following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and allowing the current CAP arrangements to continue to operate and payments to beneficiaries to be made.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 15:19:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1140245

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Food: Allowances
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 potential merits of giving people a monthly allowance to spend on fresh, healthy and locally sourced food in a bid to (a) tackle obesity and (b) support the farming industry.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	278920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>There are existing schemes that support the consumption of healthy food. For example, the Healthy Start scheme provides vouchers for lower income families which can be used to buy, or be put towards the cost of, fruit, vegetables, milk and infant formula.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Defra has commissioned its lead non-executive director, Henry Dimbleby, to lead an independent review to develop a series of recommendations that will help shape a national food strategy. It will cover the entire food chain from field to fork, building on work already underway in the Agriculture Bill, the Environment Bill, the Fisheries Bill and the Childhood Obesity Plan. This will help ensure that our food system delivers healthy and affordable food and is built upon a resilient and sustainable agriculture sector.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 23/07/2019 14:52:41 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1140246

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Rural Development Programme
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 Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for receiving rural development funding in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government has guaranteed that any rural development projects where funding has been agreed before the end of 2020 will be funded for their full lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>This means in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal there will be no substantive change for farmers, land manages and rural businesses who have agreements funded by the UK Rural Development Programmes (RDP) due to finish after 31 October 2019, and existing application and contracting arrangements remain in place for those planning to seek funding after this date but before the end of 2020.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to update information about the RDP for England and the schemes open for applications on the rural grants and payment pages of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rural-development-programme-for-england-network" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 10:40:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna