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908920

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Forestry Commission: Land
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hectares of land were leased out by the Forestry Commission in (1) 2000, (2) 2005, (3) 2010, (4) 2015, and (5) 2018.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL8082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The Forestry Commission did not introduce a system for centrally recording the area of land leased to third parties until 2018 so the figures for earlier years could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, 28,065 hectares of land were leased by the Forestry Commission; approximately 11% of the Public Forest Estate.</p><p> </p><p>Forestry Commission records of land use would suggest that the nature of the estate has remained fairly constant and as such the proportion leased is unlikely to have change significantly in the last 10 years.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/06/2018 16:29:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

908924

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they will make available in 2019–20 for nature-based solutions to reduce future flood risk in the UK, as recommended in the United Nations report Nature-based solutions for water, published on 19 March.
tabling member printed	Lord Stone of Blackheath
uin	HL8086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2018 answer text <p>Natural flood management (NFM) measures are often integrated alongside more traditional approaches in flood and coastal risk management schemes. This includes within the Government’s £2.6 billion six year capital flood and coastal erosion risk management investment programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The six year programme is focused on reducing flood risk to at least 300,000 homes, regardless of the type of flood risk management intervention, and the Environment Agency therefore does not hold a separate figure for annual natural flood management spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In November 2016, the Government announced £15 million to test natural flood management measures on catchment scale projects that:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><p>reduce flood, or coastal erosion risk, to homes;</p></li><li><p>improve habitats and increase biodiversity;</p></li><li><p>contribute to research and development of NFM techniques and interventions; and</p></li><li><p>support and promote partnership working with and between communities.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The £15 million will be spent over the remainder of the six-year programme ending in March 2021, with £4.7 million of this Flood Defence Grant-in-Aid (GiA) funding forecast to be spent in the financial year 2019-20 on NFM.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 01/06/2018 12:51:43 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2222 label Biography information for Lord Stone of Blackheath

908953

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Procurement
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 contractors have been employed by his Department for (a) up to one year, (b) between one and five years, (c) between five and 10 years and (d) over 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	146176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>Defra’s systems do not differentiate between contractors and other types of contingent worker. The table below therefore sets out the number of contingent workers in the Core Department as at 31 March 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Length of time</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of</strong> <strong>contingent workers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Up to one year</p></td><td><p>347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Between one and five years</p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Between five and 10 years</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Over 10 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/05/2018 16:44:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

909009

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 recent steps his Department has taken to prevent the illegal culling of badgers.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Government takes the issue of illegal badger killing very seriously. Any evidence of unlawful activity relating to badgers or their setts is passed directly to the National Wildlife Crime Unit.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/05/2018 10:35:58 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909010

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Vaccination
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 advance the efficacy of the phage vaccine for bovine TB.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Defra is not aware of any research on the use of bacteriophages (viruses of bacteria) as vaccines for bovine TB. The current leading vaccine candidate is BCG which is an attenuated strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis and not a bacteriophage.</p><p> </p><p>However, there is a company developing a Phage test to detect TB. I have met with the developers of this test to discuss their work and officials are engaging with them on the regulatory process they need to go through.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/05/2018 11:23:29 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909011

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 representations he has received from animal welfare organisations on the terms of reference for the Godfray Review on badger culling.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>As envisaged in its terms of reference, the Bovine TB Strategy Review has published a formal call for evidence and held meetings with several external organisations to inform its discussion of future priorities for disease control. This engagement provides an opportunity for people and organisations interested in the welfare of animals to submit information on relevant topics. The call for evidence closes on 31 May. All representations will be considered carefully.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/05/2018 11:16:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909012

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 recent meetings he has had with scientists on bovine TB.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>On 15 January, the Secretary of State met a number of scientists, veterinarians, and other experts to discuss ways to accelerate the eradication of bovine TB.</p><p>The Review of our 25-Year TB Strategy, announced in February 2018, will bring together several leading TB scientists to explore how to take the Strategy to the next phase.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/05/2018 11:12:44 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909013

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 badgers are planned to be culled in each trial zone for the remainder of the cull period.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Defra’s advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas in 2018 will be published on gov.uk in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/05/2018 11:19:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909014

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 assessment his Department is undertaking into the study of immunity against bovine TB among (a) badgers and (b) cattle.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Research on the effect of vaccination in reducing the susceptibility to, and progression of, bovine TB in both cattle and badgers is ongoing at APHA. The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), in conjunction with Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), launched the TB advantage trait in January 2016 which identifies bulls from dairy breeds which appear to have a reduced susceptibility to TB. Research on a similar approach in beef breeds is underway by the same groups.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/05/2018 10:52:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

909015

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: Disease 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 plans he has to test for bovine TB (a) those badgers culled as part of the culling trial, (b) those badgers remaining in the high risk areas and (c) a sample of badgers in the low risk area.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	146084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>We have started exploratory work on the use of tissue sampling to test badgers in some cull areas to identify trends in disease prevalence. In addition there has been a long standing surveillance programme run by APHA which monitors the prevalence of the disease in one highly infected population in Gloucestershire. Post-mortem testing of found-dead wildlife carcasses is also deployed in the Low Risk Area in a targeted way where a cluster of TB cases in cattle is suspected to be linked to TB in wildlife.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/05/2018 16:49:57 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew