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448996

registered interest
date	29/01/2016
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	Imports: Israel
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 marketing standards conformity certificates issued by Israel covering consignments of fresh fruit and vegetables grown in the occupied Palestinian territories indicate that the products they cover originate in Israel.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	24931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>The Horticultural Marketing Inspectors have no reason to believe that these certificates do not contain correct information. In 2012, the European Commission announced that their research into Israeli/Palestinian export certificates “did not reveal any evidence of non-conformity regarding the indication of the country of origin”. The Commission also reaffirmed the requirement that the origin needed to be clearly indicated whether it was Israel or an Occupied Territory.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/02/2016 09:29:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

448997

registered interest
date	29/01/2016
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	Imports: Fruit and Vegetables
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 it is part of the remit of the Rural Payments Agency to check the conformity to EU marketing standards of consignments of fresh fruit and vegetables entering UK ports.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	24928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>All fruit and vegetables must meet the EU marketing standards in Regulation 543/2011. These standards require that fruit and vegetables which are intended to be sold fresh to the consumer, may only be marketed if they are of sound, fair and marketable quality and if the country of origin is indicated. Horticultural Marketing Inspectors are part of the Rural Payments Agency and carry out these inspections for Her Majesty’s Government.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/02/2016 09:23:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442931

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 marketing standards conformity checks for consignments of fresh fruit and vegetables exported to the UK by Israel have not been accepted on the grounds that the products in those consignments originated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Defra does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:28:58 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442933

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 she has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of goods imported into the UK labelled as products of Israel that are from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by Defra. No estimate of these statistics has been produced.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:56:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442934

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 proportion of fruit and vegetables imported into the UK have postcodes that show that the produce originated from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by Defra. No estimate has been produced of this proportion.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:18:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

442935

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Imports: Palestinians
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 marketing standards conformity checks are applied to produce from settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	21325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>All fruit and vegetables must meet the EU marketing standards in Regulation 543/2011. These standards require that fruit and vegetables which are intended to be sold fresh to the consumer may only be marketed if they are of sound, fair and marketable quality and if the country of origin is indicated. Horticultural Marketing Inspectors carry out the same processes and procedures for fruit and vegetables regardless of origin.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/01/2016 15:24:29 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90833

registered interest
date	05/09/2014
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	Written Questions
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 proportion of named day written questions were answered by her Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Session</p></td><td><p>Percentage of named day written question answered within prescribed period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015 to date</p></td><td><p>95% 1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1. Figures for the 2014-2015 session cover questions for answer during the period 05 June to 05 September 2014, inclusive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental performance information, for ordinary and named day Parliamentary Questions, is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee, and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 10/09/2014 10:17:51 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

65701

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Fixed Penalties
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 statistics his Department holds on the use of fixed penalty notices in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	203998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Defra has not collected statistics on the use of fixed penalties by local authorities since 2008/09. Data from previous years can be viewed at: <a href="http://www.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.data.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2009 the Environment Agency has issued 71 fixed penalty notices for offences under the waste Duty of Care and the hazardous waste regulations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 10/07/2014 14:23:16 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

49443

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
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
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 he will review the effectiveness of current legislation on banned breeds of dog.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	197473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government has introduced new legislation to tackle irresponsible dog ownership, including extending the criminal offence of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control to all places, increasing the maximum penalties for allowing a dog to become dangerously out of control and ensuring that the new measures to deal with anti-social behaviour will include such instances when they involve a dog. As announced on 6<sup>th</sup> February 2013, Defra is looking at making changes to the arrangements for seizure and kennelling of suspected dangerous dogs but there are noplans to review the effectiveness of the restrictions on keeping certain types of dogwhich are specifically bred for fighting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn