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660110

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 her most recent estimate is of the number of lead local flood authorities which (a) have and (b) have not published a local flood risk strategy.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	58001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>Lead Local Flood Authorities report their progress with local flood risk management strategies annually. As of 31 March 2016 out of the 152 Lead Local Flood Authorities in England,114 had completed and published their strategy and 26 had completed or were undergoing public consultation on their draft. Of the remaining 12, we have been monitoring their progress and encouraging to complete as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/12/2016 16:12:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660112

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Bovine Tuberculosis
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 has taken to comply with the recommendation in the Chief Veterinary Officer's advice on the outcome of the 2015 badger culls, published in December 2015, paragraph 12, that consideration should be given to monitoring the disease status of badgers; what (a) proportion and (b) number of badgers from each cull from the current 10 culls have been examined post-mortem to assess prevalence of bovine tuberculosis; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	57987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>This year a pilot study was started to explore ways in which badger carcases obtained from the cull could be used to gather long term information on levels of disease in badgers. A number of carcases from nine of the areas are being sampled and testing methodologies are being piloted. Findings, including the number of carcases tested, will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/12/2016 16:54:34 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

660113

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 the £12.5 million allocated to the Environment Agency for temporary flood defences, as set out in the National Flood Resilience Review, has been spent by the Environment Agency since the publication of that review in September 2016.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2016 answer text <p><strong>The Environment Agency has spent all of the £7.65 million allocated for use in 2016/17. The majority of this funding has been used to purchase around 20 miles of temporary flood barrier, which increases the Environment Agency’s overall holding to around 25 miles. The Environment Agency has also doubled their stock of sandbags from 250,000 to 500,000 and purchased two additional Incident Command Vehicles. </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The Environment Agency will use the remainder of the funding in 2017/18 to purchase an additional 70 pumps and ancillary equipment, three further Incident Command Vehicles and storage and logistics capabilities.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/12/2016 14:46:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660114

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control: Databases
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 progress has been made in establishing the new ResilienceDirect database; how many flood defence assets are recorded in that database; and how many new subscribers have been granted access to that database since its creation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>ResilienceDirect is the UKs secure and free to use web-based platform for the Resilience Community. ResilienceDirect enables the sharing of real time information across all category 1 and 2 emergency responders, government departments and other key agencies, including the Devolved Administrations, for emergency planning, response and recovery. The database holds a total of 164,049 Environment Agency flood defence assets, such as walls, embankments and flood gates, which operate together to manage flood risk in England. Currently there are over 20,000 users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/12/2016 15:05:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660115

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 flood risk assessment she has received from the water telecommunications industries since the publication of the national Flood Resilience Review in September 2016; how many key local infrastructure assets have been identified by those industries as vulnerable to flooding; and how many such assets have had temporary improvements made to increase their resilience to flooding.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>Good progress is being made on the implementation of the National Flood Resilience Review recommendations. All infrastructure companies have completed their initial assessments of their vulnerable sites for suitability for temporary flood defences and as a result companies are investing heavily in resilience measures to ensure continuity of supply this winter. This includes putting in place or having deployment plans for temporary defences, and other contingency measures such as rezoning of water supplies and the use of mobile telecommunications cells to reduce the risk of disruption of services. Further to this, the Government is working with utility companies to improve permanent defences in the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 57992 57993 question first answered 22/12/2016 11:18:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660116

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 of the 530 key local infrastructure assets identified by her Department as vulnerable to flooding in circumstances envisaged by the Environment Agency's Extreme Flood Outlines have had improvements made to their flood defences since the publication of the National Flood Resilience Review in September 2016.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>Good progress is being made on the implementation of the National Flood Resilience Review recommendations. All infrastructure companies have completed their initial assessments of their vulnerable sites for suitability for temporary flood defences and as a result companies are investing heavily in resilience measures to ensure continuity of supply this winter. This includes putting in place or having deployment plans for temporary defences, and other contingency measures such as rezoning of water supplies and the use of mobile telecommunications cells to reduce the risk of disruption of services. Further to this, the Government is working with utility companies to improve permanent defences in the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 57991 57993 question first answered 22/12/2016 11:18:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660117

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 targets her Department has set for raising partnership funding for flood protection in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department did not set a target for the amount of partnership funding for flood protection to be raised between 2011 and March 2015, and no annual target has been set for the period from April 2015. The target for the whole six year period from April 2015 to March 2021 is to raise the equivalent of at least an additional 15 per cent of the total capital allocation from partnership funding on top of Government’s contribution.</p><p> </p><p>The partnership funding each year since 2011:</p><p>2011/12 = £39 million</p><p>2012/13 = £40 million</p><p>2013/14 = £83 million</p><p>2014/15 = £79 million</p><p>2015/16 = £74 million</p><p> </p><p>The above figures are rounded down to the nearest million and include expenditure of funds raised by Regional Flood and Coastal Committees through local levy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 57998 question first answered 21/12/2016 15:11:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660118

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 each key local infrastructure asset identified in the National Flood Resilience Review as being vulnerable to flooding in circumstances envisaged by the Environment Agency's Extreme Flood Agency's Outlines is.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>Good progress is being made on the implementation of the National Flood Resilience Review recommendations. All infrastructure companies have completed their initial assessments of their vulnerable sites for suitability for temporary flood defences and as a result companies are investing heavily in resilience measures to ensure continuity of supply this winter. This includes putting in place or having deployment plans for temporary defences, and other contingency measures such as rezoning of water supplies and the use of mobile telecommunications cells to reduce the risk of disruption of services. Further to this, the Government is working with utility companies to improve permanent defences in the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 57991 57992 question first answered 22/12/2016 11:18:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660120

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public authorities have provided partnership funding for flood protection; and how much each such authority has provided to date.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency receives spending information from public authorities on both their own flood and coastal risk management projects and the Environment Agency projects to which they contribute.</p><p> </p><p>This information is grouped into “public contributions” for each scheme, enabling the Environment Agency to have an overview of partnership funding available for flood and coastal risk management projects since 2011. Contributions are however not broken down by public authority and the Environment Agency does not hold nationally a list of all public authorities that have provided partnership funding.</p><p> </p><p>Around 300 public authorities, including Local Authorities, Highways Authorities and Internal Drainage Boards, are expected to deliver projects between April 2015 and March 2021. Over this period they are expected to contribute around £300 million in public contributions. This is in addition to other funding sources such as contributions from the private sector and local levy funding.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/12/2016 15:18:56 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

660121

registered interest
date	16/12/2016
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	Flood Control
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 targets her Department has set for raising partnership funding for flood protection in each year from 2011; and what the actual amount was of such funding raised in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department did not set a target for the amount of partnership funding for flood protection to be raised between 2011 and March 2015, and no annual target has been set for the period from April 2015. The target for the whole six year period from April 2015 to March 2021 is to raise the equivalent of at least an additional 15 per cent of the total capital allocation from partnership funding on top of Government’s contribution.</p><p> </p><p>The partnership funding each year since 2011:</p><p>2011/12 = £39 million</p><p>2012/13 = £40 million</p><p>2013/14 = £83 million</p><p>2014/15 = £79 million</p><p>2015/16 = £74 million</p><p> </p><p>The above figures are rounded down to the nearest million and include expenditure of funds raised by Regional Flood and Coastal Committees through local levy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 57997 question first answered 21/12/2016 15:11:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell