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1045446

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	River Thames: Cocaine
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 impact on eels of cocaine in the river Thames; and what steps they intend to take to reduce the level of cocaine in that river.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL12982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) undertakes a wide range of monitoring in the River Thames, including some exploratory monitoring for cocaine, to manage water quality and inform future regulatory approaches where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EA is working with Thames Water and other water companies to undertake extensive investigations to assess a wide range of chemicals entering rivers through wastewater treatment works. The investigations have shown that wastewater treatment works significantly reduce the concentrations of many chemicals before they are discharged to rivers. Although cocaine is not part of these investigations, it is likely that it will be similarly affected by wastewater treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Thames Tideway Tunnel, which is currently in construction and will be operational by 2023, will significantly reduce the frequency and volume of discharges of storm sewage and improve water quality in the tidal Thames. This will reduce levels of associated chemicals in the tidal river.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/02/2019 14:48:19 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1045486

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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 and Trees: Conservation
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 Consultation on Protecting and Enhancing England’s Trees and Woodlands, if he will ensure that appropriate measures include local authority tree officers in the duty to consult.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	210441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed in the 25 Year Environment Plan to introduce a duty on local authorities to consult with local communities when a street tree is to be felled.</p><p> </p><p>Defra’s public consultation on ‘Protecting and Enhancing England’s Trees and Woodlands’ was launched on 30th December. It covers three measures we hope to include in the Environment Bill: a duty on LAs to consult on felling street trees (‘the duty to consult’), a duty on LAs to report on their tree felling and planting, and changes to the Forestry Act to give Forestry Commission more powers to tackle illegal tree felling. We are also consulting on best practice guidance for Tree and Woodland Strategies. The consultation is open until the 28 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A stakeholder workshop was held in Birmingham on 8 January 2019, which included representatives from local authorities as well as the Metropolitan Tree Officers Association, the National Tree Officers Association, the London Tree Officers Association and the Arboricultural Association. Defra welcomes further engagement from tree officers and local authorities in developing the duty to consult.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 24/01/2019 13:57:04 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1045493

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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: Subsidies
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 discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for the proposed new Environmental Land Management Schemes after 2022.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	210558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and I have regular meetings with the Chancellor on a wide range of issues. Funding of all government business after 2022 will be determined as part of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/01/2019 12:42:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1045495

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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: Subsidies
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 assessment he has made of the role of public advice in the effective delivery of the proposed new Environmental Land Management Schemes.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	210559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>We will be introducing a new Environmental Land Management (ELM) system that will pay land managers for delivering environmental public goods.</p><p> </p><p>The government will work with farmers and land managers who wish to improve the environment by entering into multi-annual ELM contracts in which land managers commit to take certain actions to deliver environmental goods and benefits in return for funding.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that those managing the land are best placed to decide how to deliver the environmental benefits they have signed up to provide. We propose that land managers should have access to the information and advice they need to enable them to develop holistic management plans for their land.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence from previous agri-environment schemes suggests that the effectiveness of measures and the quality of environmental benefits can depend on the quality and extent of advice from trusted advisers. We propose that an approved specialist adviser should be readily available to help the land manager to deliver desirable environmental outcomes. We want land managers to establish trusted relationships with their adviser. We are therefore exploring the role that third party advisers could play. For example, an adviser could be an agronomist who a farmer has worked with in the past and trusts, or an adviser from a local organisation who can advise on local conditions. We expect that these advisers would need to be approved to demonstrate their level of capability and to ensure sufficient protection for the spending of public money. The appetite for existing advisers training to deliver advice within ELM, and the market for delivering this training, is being tested through a combination of policy development, Testing and Trials and social science involvement, with an intelligence assessment in development.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/01/2019 12:29:36 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1045508

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Air Pollution
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 support his Department is providing to (a) areas of Salford and (b) the UK who experience poor air quality.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	210567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>(a) Government support has included £250 million, since 2017 alone, to Greater Manchester for cleaner better transport to help improve air quality. Manchester authorities, including Salford, are working together to develop a Clean Air Plan for Manchester. The Government is committed to providing the required financial and technical support to local authorities to enable delivery of their air quality plans. We are working closely with Greater Manchester to reduce air pollution and have committed £495 million for local authorities to implement and mitigate their plans. We will be able to consider Greater Manchester’s funding requirement once their final plan is received; it was due in December 2018, but will not be provided until March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The UK continues to meet all current international air quality limits, except for Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations (NO2). In July 2017, we published the NO2 Plan, backed by £3.5 billion of funding, which sets out the steps we are taking to reduce NO2 concentrations in the shortest possible time, thus complying with NO2 limits as soon as possible. We are working intensively with local authorities, to identify measures to swiftly bring forward compliance, and support them with guidance and funding. This includes major cities outside the Capital which are exceeding NO2 limits, including Greater Manchester Authorities, such as Salford. Additionally, we published our new world leading Clean Air Strategy on 14 January 2019, which has been welcomed by the World Health Organisation as “an example for the rest of the world to follow”.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 210568 question first answered 29/01/2019 13:15:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1043709

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
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	Dairy Farming
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 he has to encourage the growth of free range dairy herds.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	210009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Preferences for animal products from different production systems are driven by consumer demand. Our UK farming industry produces animal products under a range of different production systems, benefitting consumers who have access to a diverse choice of products from a range of different systems, including free range. The UK has some of the highest animal health and welfare standards in the world. Regardless of production method, all operational livestock farms must comply with comprehensive animal health, welfare and environmental legislation. Stockmanship and the correct application of husbandry standards whatever the system of production, is key to ensuring good welfare for all farmed animals. Our new system of agricultural support will support high welfare methods of production.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/01/2019 12:47:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1043719

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
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	Horses: Animal Welfare
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 the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of transferring responsibility for horse welfare from the British Horse Racing Authority and to an independent body to help ensure the welfare of racehorses.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	210054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) work in collaboration with the RSPCA and World Horse Welfare to make racetracks as safe as possible. It is good to see that the number of racehorse fatalities at racetracks has been falling steadily since 2012. However I am in active discussions with the BHA about how to make horseracing safer and I am not currently seeking to establish a different regulatory body.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 23/01/2019 11:02:04 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1045509

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
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	Air Pollution
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 he is taking to reduce air pollution in (a) Salford and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	210568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>(a) Government support has included £250 million, since 2017 alone, to Greater Manchester for cleaner better transport to help improve air quality. Manchester authorities, including Salford, are working together to develop a Clean Air Plan for Manchester. The Government is committed to providing the required financial and technical support to local authorities to enable delivery of their air quality plans. We are working closely with Greater Manchester to reduce air pollution and have committed £495 million for local authorities to implement and mitigate their plans. We will be able to consider Greater Manchester’s funding requirement once their final plan is received; it was due in December 2018, but will not be provided until March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The UK continues to meet all current international air quality limits, except for Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations (NO2). In July 2017, we published the NO2 Plan, backed by £3.5 billion of funding, which sets out the steps we are taking to reduce NO2 concentrations in the shortest possible time, thus complying with NO2 limits as soon as possible. We are working intensively with local authorities, to identify measures to swiftly bring forward compliance, and support them with guidance and funding. This includes major cities outside the Capital which are exceeding NO2 limits, including Greater Manchester Authorities, such as Salford. Additionally, we published our new world leading Clean Air Strategy on 14 January 2019, which has been welcomed by the World Health Organisation as “an example for the rest of the world to follow”.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 210567 question first answered 29/01/2019 13:15:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1042984

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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	Animal Products: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 16 January (HL12717, HL12718 and HL12719), what category of individual will be designated as an authorised signatory for export health certificates to enable products of animal origin, including (1) food for human consumption, and (2) animal by-products not intended for human consumption, to pass from the UK into the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
uin	HL12934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Only Official Veterinarians can sign certificates for animal products intended for the EU for human consumption, except in the case of fishery, shellfish and composite products, which can be signed by a non-veterinarian (referred to as an Official Inspector in the certificates for these products). Certificates for animal by-products (not for human consumption) have to be signed by an Official Veterinarian.</p><p> </p><p>Official Veterinarians authorised to sign certificates in Great Britain are trained and authorised by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and then employed privately. In Northern Ireland, Official Veterinarians are employed and trained by Department of Agriculture, Environment &amp; Rural Affairs (DAERA).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/01/2019 17:18:30 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan

1042991

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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 Treatment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what arrangements they will make to ensure the efficient delivery of water purification chemicals from the EU to water companies in the UK in the event of a no-deal withdrawal from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
uin	HL12941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>My department is working closely with the water industry and regulators to prepare for all potential EU withdrawal outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>The water industry is reliant to a large extent on chemicals imported from the EU to ensure water is safe to drink. Often they are supplied on a ‘just in time’ basis. Water companies and officials in my department have been working together to identify the sector’s needs and any steps that should be taken to ensure they continue to be met. Analysis of current supply chains has provided reassurance. The majority of critical chemicals come through ports such as Immingham, which are less likely than Dover to see potential disruption. Water companies are also increasing their on-site stocks of chemicals and are working with suppliers and regulators to increase production rates and storage capacity or look for alternative options for resilience. The Government will further ensure all necessary steps are taken to secure chemicals for the water sector.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the steps we have taken, my department is confident that we will continue to have safe and plentiful supplies of water in the event of no deal.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/02/2019 11:57:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury