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1125138

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
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	Hares Preservation Act 1892
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 the current maximum penalty is for a breach of the Hares Preservation Act 1892.
tabling member constituency	Camborne and Redruth
tabling member printed	George Eustice
uin	251294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The current maximum penalty for a breach of the Hares Preservation Act 1892 is level 1 on the standard scale, i.e. £200.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/05/2019 12:46:05 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3934 label Biography information for George Eustice

1123137

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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: 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, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent deforestation in (a) Brazil, (b) the Democratic Republic of Congo and (c) Indonesia.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	247579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Defra works alongside the Department for International Development and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to prevent deforestation overseas. Together, our three departments have committed to spending £5.8 billion in international climate finance (ICF) between 2016 and 2021, which includes programmes that aim to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use change. Since the ICF began in 2011, the UK has spent just over £800 million on forest and land use programmes, which includes projects that aim to reduce deforestation in Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia.</p><p> </p><p>For example, the UK has made a £118 million commitment to support forests and sustainable land use in Brazil, focused on State governments and creating new businesses. This includes Defra’s £64.9 million investment that aims to protect over 200,000 hectares of forest in the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado regions and to support over 5,000 farmers to transition into low carbon sustainable agriculture.</p><p> </p><p>Through its Blue Forests programme, Defra is investing £10.1 million, to reduce deforestation of mangroves habitats in Madagascar and Indonesia. The programme aims to protect around 20,000 hectares of mangrove forests; deliver around 13.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide savings and benefit over 100,000 people.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has also invested £115 million in the BioCarbon Fund – Initiative for Sustainable Forested Landscapes which seeks to improve landscape management and reduce emissions from the forest and land use sector in countries including Indonesia, while promoting alternative livelihoods that help take the pressure off the country’s primary forests and peatlands.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has also invested in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Carbon Fund, which includes both Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UK’s share of payments through the Fund will be up to about £20 million, phased over several years, if Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo successfully preserve their forests and deliver verified emissions reductions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/04/2019 16:41:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1086746

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Litter: Fines
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 fines have been issued for littering in each of the last 10 years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	230828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Data collection of fixed penalty notices was discontinued in 2009.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Reporting year (April to March)</em></p></td><td><p><em>Number</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>35,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>33,693</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of fixed penalty notices issued for littering between 2007 and 2009 in England is presented in the table above. These are the most recent years for which records are available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/03/2019 11:44:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1047683

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether EU law requires the export of animal-based products from the EU to be via a designated border inspection point; and if will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Animal-based product (POAO) being exported from the EU to a third country is not required to exit the EU via a Border Inspection Post (BIP).</p><p> </p><p>It would only be required to exit via a BIP if it was transiting the EU from and to a Third Country as laid down in Council Directive 97/78/EC.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 29/01/2019 17:36:48 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

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

756355

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to Question 5522, (a) what steps he is taking to phase out manual data entry and (b) whether his Department is considering methods of data entry to improve the accuracy of data collection.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	8281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) agree a Required Method of Operation (RMOP) with transport companies which carry pet animals. The RMOP includes protocols to capture data accurately and to submit it in a timely manner. In the absence of an electronic method of data capture, manual entry is often the only current option. Whilst there is no legislative power to enforce data collection APHA work closely with the transport companies to ensure that they understand the need for accuracy.</p><p> </p><p>A new electronic method of collecting data is being considered where APHA hope to build on technological approaches being developed for other purposes.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2017 16:29:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael