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1202389

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
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 the additional £63 million funding for the Welfare Assistance Fund announced at Prime Minister’s Questions on 10 June 2020 is being funded; when it will become available; and for how long that funding will be made available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	57984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>To support those people who are facing severe financial difficulties during this crisis, the Government has announced further funding of £63 million to be given to and disbursed by local authorities in England. This will ensure that the most vulnerable families can afford food and other essentials. This funding will sit alongside the £6.5 billion of extra support the Government is providing through the benefits system to protect the most vulnerable throughout this crisis.</p><p>The additional £63 million will be for local authorities to spend at their discretion and at the pace which suits the needs of their community. The money will be distributed through a Section 31 grant. Funding arrangements will be finalised shortly. Most local authorities already operate these schemes and understand the legal context within which they operate, including entitlement for those with no recourse to public funds.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 57985 57987 57988 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:21:53 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1202391

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes: 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, how much of the additional £63 million funding for the Welfare Assistance Fund announced at Prime Minister’s Questions on 10 June 2020 will be made available to local authorities in Scotland; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	57985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>To support those people who are facing severe financial difficulties during this crisis, the Government has announced further funding of £63 million to be given to and disbursed by local authorities in England. This will ensure that the most vulnerable families can afford food and other essentials. This funding will sit alongside the £6.5 billion of extra support the Government is providing through the benefits system to protect the most vulnerable throughout this crisis.</p><p>The additional £63 million will be for local authorities to spend at their discretion and at the pace which suits the needs of their community. The money will be distributed through a Section 31 grant. Funding arrangements will be finalised shortly. Most local authorities already operate these schemes and understand the legal context within which they operate, including entitlement for those with no recourse to public funds.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 57984 57987 57988 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:21:53 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1202394

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
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 announcement by the Prime Minister on 10 June 2020 of a £63 million welfare assistance fund in response to the covid-19 outbreak, how her Department plans to distribute that fund among local authorities; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	57987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>To support those people who are facing severe financial difficulties during this crisis, the Government has announced further funding of £63 million to be given to and disbursed by local authorities in England. This will ensure that the most vulnerable families can afford food and other essentials. This funding will sit alongside the £6.5 billion of extra support the Government is providing through the benefits system to protect the most vulnerable throughout this crisis.</p><p>The additional £63 million will be for local authorities to spend at their discretion and at the pace which suits the needs of their community. The money will be distributed through a Section 31 grant. Funding arrangements will be finalised shortly. Most local authorities already operate these schemes and understand the legal context within which they operate, including entitlement for those with no recourse to public funds.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 57984 57985 57988 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:21:53 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1202395

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes: Migrants
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 announcement by the Prime Minister on 10 June 2020 of a £63 million welfare assistance fund in response to the covid-19 outbreak, whether people who have no recourse to public funds will be eligible for that fund in each local authority; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	57988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>To support those people who are facing severe financial difficulties during this crisis, the Government has announced further funding of £63 million to be given to and disbursed by local authorities in England. This will ensure that the most vulnerable families can afford food and other essentials. This funding will sit alongside the £6.5 billion of extra support the Government is providing through the benefits system to protect the most vulnerable throughout this crisis.</p><p>The additional £63 million will be for local authorities to spend at their discretion and at the pace which suits the needs of their community. The money will be distributed through a Section 31 grant. Funding arrangements will be finalised shortly. Most local authorities already operate these schemes and understand the legal context within which they operate, including entitlement for those with no recourse to public funds.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 57984 57985 57987 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:21:53 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

227518

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
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: Off-payroll Working
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 staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	227599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts set out the number of off-payroll workers employed by the Core Department, its Executive Agencies and Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies each year. The table below shows the information requested in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2013-14 (the last financial year for which a set of accounts has been published).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Defra</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Executive Agencies:</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (see Note)</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Food and Environment Research Agency (see Note)</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rural Payments Agency</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Veterinary Medicines Directorate</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies:</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (see Note)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consumer Council for Water</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environment Agency</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>349</p></td><td><p>687</p></td><td><p>764</p></td><td><p>403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Nature Conservation Committee</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marine Management Organisation</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Forest Company</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Natural England</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sea Fish Industry Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note: the figures for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency reflect the organisation’s then structure, which was created from a merger of the Animal Health agency and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency on 1 April 2011. The figures do not reflect the restructuring into the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 1 October 2014, when some areas of work undertaken previously by Fera (Food and Environment Research Agency) were brought into the new organisation.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 19/03/2015 11:36:06 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash