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61692

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date	12/06/2014
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	Helium Balloons
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 steps he has taken to reduce risks to the environment posed by the release of helium balloons.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	200367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We recognise there are concerns about the potential risks posed by helium balloons. In 2013, jointly with the Welsh Government, we commissioned an independent study to identify and assess the impacts and risks to livestock and the environment associated with sky lanterns and helium balloons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Evidence from the report concluded that risk to the environment from helium balloons is small or highly localised.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The report is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&amp;Module=More&amp;Location=None&amp;Completed=2&amp;ProjectID=18402" target="_blank">http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&amp;Module=More&amp;Location=None&amp;Completed=2&amp;ProjectID=18402</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any future action Government may take will need to be proportionate to the problem and backed by reliable evidence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/06/2014 09:29:17 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

61696

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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	Forests
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 Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 394W, on forests, for what reasons the Government did not announce in the Queen's Speech legislative proposals to protect the public forest estate.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	200611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There were many proposals competing for the limited space within the Fourth Session programme and the proposed forestry measures could not be accommodated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government stands by its commitment to establish a new public body to hold the Public Forest Estate in trust for the nation, as set out in its Forestry and Woodlands Policy Statement of January 2013, as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/06/2014 09:33:44 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

61450

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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	Floods: South East
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 how many properties at risk of flooding in (a) Windsor constituency and (b) the Thames Valley that will not be covered by the new Flood Re scheme.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	200307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The assessment of the impact the scope of the Flood Re Scheme will have was done at a UK level. There was no specific assessment for individual constituencies or regions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 17/06/2014 11:03:41 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

61462

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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	Water Charges: South West
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 agreement has been reached to extend to 2020 the reduction to household water bills for South West Water customers.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	200276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government announced the decision to fund South West Water to enable it to cut bills by £50 per year for all household customers in the Budget 2011. Households in the South West have received the reduction since April 2013. The understanding has always been that this reduction would continue for the duration of both the current spending review and the next.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/06/2014 15:04:18 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

61158

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
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
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 his Department's Sustainable Consumption Report, published in July 2013, what progress has been made on developing integrated healthy sustainable dietary guidelines to help health professionals, educators, businesses and the public make healthier and more sustainable food choices.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	199831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Sustainable Consumption Report, published on 29 July 2013, was produced by a group of organisations following discussions facilitated by Defra. The report reflects the views of the stakeholders who were involved in its production; it does not represent Government policy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I met with the co-chairs of the working groups in March, and work has now started to peer review and publish the principles of a healthy and sustainable diet.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/06/2014 14:14:36 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

58562

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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	British Overseas Territories: Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the World Society for the Protection of Animals' report "Cayman Turtle Farm: A Continued Case for Change"; and what measures they are taking to protect flora and fauna in all British Overseas Territories including the Cayman Islands.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL87
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Cayman Islands Government has constitutional responsibility for a large measure of self-government, including for decisions relating to the Cayman Turtle Farm. The recommendations in the publication are therefore the responsibility of the Cayman Islands Government. However, we note that the report contains inaccuracies about UK engagement in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for the Overseas Territories, Mark Simmonds, is writing to the World Society for the Protection of Animals to bring these inaccuracies to its attention.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK Government's ambition is for the natural environments of the Overseas Territories (OTs) to be protected and managed to the highest international standards, as set out in our 2012 White Paper, “The Overseas Territories Security, Success and Sustainability”. OT Governments are constitutionally responsible for the protection and conservation of their natural environments and the UK Government works in partnership with them to identify where our support can be most effective. On 12 May 2014, the Government published an update to the Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy, which provides detail of the Government's activities on biodiversity in the OTs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 16/06/2014 14:23:48 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham