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533028

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2016
	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	St Helena: Aviation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which organisation is responsible for the monitoring and collection of pollution data in and around Heathrow airport.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>As I said in my answer to PQ HL7316 on 5 April this year, air quality monitoring data collected in and around Heathrow Airport is presented on the Heathrow AirWatch website which is funded via a joint working partnership consisting of Heathrow Airport Ltd, London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow, Slough and Spelthorne Borough Councils and British Airways. It is managed by the consultant Ricardo Energy and Environment.</p><p> </p><p>Two local monitoring sites are included in the Government’s national monitoring network (the Automatic Urban and Rural Network). All national air quality monitoring data is available on the Government’s UK-Air website.</p><p> </p><p>The two monitoring sites are London Hillingdon which is located in a suburban residential area approximately 30 metres from the M4 motorway and London Harlington which is located close to a minor road to the east of Harlington village.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL993 question first answered 19/07/2016 16:20:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

533029

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2016
	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	Homelessness
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government from how many air-pollution monitors official data on air quality within the perimeter of Heathrow airport are derived; and where those monitors are located.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>As I said in my answer to PQ HL7316 on 5 April this year, air quality monitoring data collected in and around Heathrow Airport is presented on the Heathrow AirWatch website which is funded via a joint working partnership consisting of Heathrow Airport Ltd, London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow, Slough and Spelthorne Borough Councils and British Airways. It is managed by the consultant Ricardo Energy and Environment.</p><p> </p><p>Two local monitoring sites are included in the Government’s national monitoring network (the Automatic Urban and Rural Network). All national air quality monitoring data is available on the Government’s UK-Air website.</p><p> </p><p>The two monitoring sites are London Hillingdon which is located in a suburban residential area approximately 30 metres from the M4 motorway and London Harlington which is located close to a minor road to the east of Harlington village.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL992 question first answered 19/07/2016 16:20:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

945606

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2018
	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 Disposal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to establish separate mandatory food waste collections in England by 2025 as recommended by the National Infrastructure Commission in its National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL9735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9738 HL9739 HL9740 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

945609

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2018
	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	Biofuels
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation of the National Infrastructure Commission that mandatory food waste collections should be introduced in England to support the production of biogas.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL9738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9735 HL9739 HL9740 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

945610

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2018
	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 Disposal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the figure provided in the National Infrastructure Commission's National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July, that introducing mandatory separate food waste collections in England by 2025 would save (1) up to £400 million in capital costs, and (2) £1.1 billion in operational costs for local authorities in total between 2020 and 2050, including the cost of weekly collections.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL9739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9735 HL9738 HL9740 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

945611

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2018
	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 Disposal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage local authorities who have waste contracts to renew in the next three years to introduce mandatory separate food waste collections following the recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission's National Infrastructure Assessment 2018, published in July.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL9740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2018 answer text <p>The UK government has committed to work towards no food waste being sent to landfill by 2030 in its Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. 113 local authorities out of 326 in England currently offer a separate food waste collection service and we encourage all local authorities to consider introducing separate food waste collection when opportunities arise to include these in collection contracts.</p><p> </p><p>In the 25 Year Environment Plan, we committed to working to support an increase in the number of councils with separate food waste collections. We will outline our plans for this in our Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published this autumn. This will include how we will fulfil our commitments to the circular economy package where bio-waste including food waste recycling must be offered for households.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the energy generation potential of food waste, when collected separately and sent to anaerobic digestion (AD), though we need to be conscious of some of the unintended consequences for air pollution that can arise.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the recommendations of the 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment in the development of the Resources and Waste Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL9735 HL9738 HL9739 question first answered 01/08/2018 12:23:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

532348

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	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	Crisis Care Concordat Steering Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many species of bumblebee there are in the UK, and what assessment they have made of the challenges faced by those species.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>There are 25 species of bumblebee resident in the UK, including the short-haired bumblebee which is currently being re-introduced under Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 Defra published independent research on the status of pollinators in the UK. The study identified an overall decline in wild bee diversity over the last 50 years. This concluded that bumblebee species that have become less widespread are associated with the loss of flower-rich habitat, driven by changes in agricultural land use and urbanisation.</p><p> </p><p>Both Environmental Stewardship and now the new Countryside Stewardship schemes fund the provision of food and habitat for wild pollinators. The new scheme in particular incorporates a Wild Pollinator and Farm Wildlife package which provides year-round food, winter shelter and nesting places essential for pollinators.</p><p> </p><p>Although honeybees face many of these environmental pressures their population is driven by the number of beekeepers willing and able to keep bees. There is some evidence that the number of beekeepers, and therefore the number of honey bees, may have increased since 2009 as more keepers are registered on the National Bee Unit’s BeeBase and with beekeeping associations.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL946 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:55:43 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

532349

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	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	Bath University: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the challenges facing honeybees in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>There are 25 species of bumblebee resident in the UK, including the short-haired bumblebee which is currently being re-introduced under Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 Defra published independent research on the status of pollinators in the UK. The study identified an overall decline in wild bee diversity over the last 50 years. This concluded that bumblebee species that have become less widespread are associated with the loss of flower-rich habitat, driven by changes in agricultural land use and urbanisation.</p><p> </p><p>Both Environmental Stewardship and now the new Countryside Stewardship schemes fund the provision of food and habitat for wild pollinators. The new scheme in particular incorporates a Wild Pollinator and Farm Wildlife package which provides year-round food, winter shelter and nesting places essential for pollinators.</p><p> </p><p>Although honeybees face many of these environmental pressures their population is driven by the number of beekeepers willing and able to keep bees. There is some evidence that the number of beekeepers, and therefore the number of honey bees, may have increased since 2009 as more keepers are registered on the National Bee Unit’s BeeBase and with beekeeping associations.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL945 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:55:43 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

923160

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Tree Felling: Sheffield
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what powers the Tree Champion will have to deal with the Sheffield City Council tree felling programme.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL8624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Tree Champion’s appointment does not have any statutory powers. The Terms of Reference for the Tree Champion, published on 13 June, set out that Sir William Worsley will:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Support the introduction of a new duty for local councils to consult before felling street trees;</p></li><li><p>Support the Government to deliver its objective of planting 1m urban trees by 2022;</p></li><li><p>Bring together Mayors, city leaders, and other key players across government to promote the value of trees and promote local authorities development of comprehensive Tree and Woodland Strategies;</p></li><li><p>Explore how local authorities can improve their reporting on tree felling and re-planting, and</p></li><li><p>Encourage more effective approaches to tree management that promote and preserve the benefits of street trees while managing the health and safety risks of diseased trees</p><p> </p><p>Since his appointment, Sir William Worsley has requested information from officials on tree felling in Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p>Separately, the Forestry Commission is currently investigating the tree felling being undertaken by Sheffield City Council as part of the Streets Ahead programme using powers to control tree felling as set out in Part II of the Forestry Act 1967. We are not able to provide any further information on this investigation whilst it is ongoing.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL8625 question first answered 28/06/2018 13:49:29 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

923161

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Tree Felling: Sheffield
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have asked the Tree Champion to intervene in the tree felling programme in Sheffield as a matter of urgency.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL8625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Tree Champion’s appointment does not have any statutory powers. The Terms of Reference for the Tree Champion, published on 13 June, set out that Sir William Worsley will:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Support the introduction of a new duty for local councils to consult before felling street trees;</p></li><li><p>Support the Government to deliver its objective of planting 1m urban trees by 2022;</p></li><li><p>Bring together Mayors, city leaders, and other key players across government to promote the value of trees and promote local authorities development of comprehensive Tree and Woodland Strategies;</p></li><li><p>Explore how local authorities can improve their reporting on tree felling and re-planting, and</p></li><li><p>Encourage more effective approaches to tree management that promote and preserve the benefits of street trees while managing the health and safety risks of diseased trees</p><p> </p><p>Since his appointment, Sir William Worsley has requested information from officials on tree felling in Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p>Separately, the Forestry Commission is currently investigating the tree felling being undertaken by Sheffield City Council as part of the Streets Ahead programme using powers to control tree felling as set out in Part II of the Forestry Act 1967. We are not able to provide any further information on this investigation whilst it is ongoing.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL8624 question first answered 28/06/2018 13:49:29 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven