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712430

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date	20/03/2017
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	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 plans her Department has to reduce fly tipping; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	68587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling fly-tipping and, as set out in the Government’s manifesto have given local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping. These new enforcement tools have been available to councils since May 2016, providing them with an alternative to prosecutions and assisting them in taking a proportionate enforcement response.</p><p> </p><p>This builds on other Government action to tackle fly-tipping, which has included:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Introducing stronger powers for local authorities and the Environment Agency to seize vehicles of those suspected of waste crime.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Cracking down on offenders by working with the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences act as a real deterrent to offending. New guidance came into force on 1 July 2014.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Strengthening the waste duty of care by publishing a revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice, that provides guidance to local authorities, regulators, waste industry and all those that produce, keep, import, treat, have control or dispose of controlled waste on how to comply with their waste duty of care obligations.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Supporting the industry-led Right Waste Right Place campaign to promote Duty of Care to small businesses. The campaign will be targeting construction, retail and agricultural businesses.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Chairing the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG) to prevent and tackle illegal dumping. The NFTPG includes representatives from central and local Government, enforcement authorities, the waste industry, and private landowners. The NFTPG has published a Fly-tipping Partnership Framework outlining best practice for the prevention, reporting, investigation and clearance of fly-tipping to be adapted to suit local circumstances as well as a series of fly-tipping prevention guides for householders, businesses, landowners and local authorities.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/03/2017 11:09:39 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

712431

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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
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 she plans to publish the Green Paper on the future of the UK agricultural industry.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	68579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have robust engagement plans to inform and shape our future agriculture and land use policy options and take on board stakeholder views. Decisions on the timings of future legislation and consultation documents about agriculture and land use will be shared in due course. We want to ensure that everyone who is interested has the opportunity to have their say as we shape the vision for these vital industries, including through formal consultation and broader engagement opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:28:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

712433

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
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 progress the UK is making towards Aichi 2020 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	68622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>Progress towards achieving the Aichi biodiversity targets is set out in the UK’s 5<sup>th</sup> National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity and in the 2015 report on the UK’s biodiversity indicators, published by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The next report on the UK’s biodiversity indicators is scheduled to be published in July this year. The UK’s 6th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity is due to be published at the end of 2018. These reports will provide an updated assessment of the UK’s contribution towards the Aichi targets.</p><p> </p><p>Biodiversity policy is a devolved responsibility in the UK. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have each developed or are developing their own biodiversity or environment strategies.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is embedding Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals across Government work and will publish a report in due course setting out its approach.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/03/2017 10:22:51 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

712434

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 she is taking in response to the TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhounds to ensure that other hunts are free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Government veterinary experts have provided advice to the hunt kennels and hounds from the affected kennel have not been in contact with other hounds since the initial case was suspected. At this stage no further Government action is considered necessary in relation to other hunts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:02:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712435

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 research her Department has commissioned to date into the spread of TB from hunting hounds to cattle.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Bovine TB is a notifiable disease in all farmed and pet mammal species, including dogs. The disease has only very rarely been diagnosed in dogs, in this country and elsewhere, and investigations into bovine TB breakdowns in cattle herds have never identified the source of a breakdown as an infected dog.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:33:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712436

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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
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 she plans to include measures applying to (a) England and (b) all nations of the UK in the forthcoming 25 year plan for food and farming.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	68505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>Our ambition is to be a world-leading food, farming and fishing nation that grows more, sells more and exports more of our food around the world. To this end, we are committed to publishing a 25 year food and farming plan and in order to develop this we are currently gathering views from right across industry and all parts of the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/03/2017 11:15:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

712437

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 make it her policy to cancel all hunting activities until foxhound packs across the UK are certified to be free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>TB in dogs, caused by <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> (the bovine TB bacterium), is extremely rare and dogs pose a very low risk of transmitting the disease.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:00:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712438

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 is taking to investigate the source of the bovine TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhound packs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>An epidemiological investigation into this incident is underway.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:44:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712439

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Dogs: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2017 to Question 67006 on bovine tuberculosis: dogs, whether her Department has carried out any research on diseases in packs of hunting dogs.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	68511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Bovine TB is a notifiable disease in all farmed and pet mammal species, including dogs. The disease has only very rarely been diagnosed in dogs, in this country and elsewhere, and investigations into bovine TB breakdowns in cattle herds have never identified the source of a breakdown as an infected dog.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:35:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

712440

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 make it her policy for TB in hunt packs operating in close proximity to cattle to be a notifiable disease.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>This control has been in place for some time for all pet and farmed mammals. Under the Tuberculosis (England) Order 2014 the detection of suspect TB lesions in carcases and the identification of <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> from tissue or other samples (including dogs) is notifiable.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:47:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn