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754685

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Animal Welfare: Crime
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 crimes relating to animal cruelty have been reported in each of he last three years.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	6583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty and sentenced for offences under Sections 4 to 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in England and Wales from 2014 to 2016 is shown in the table. It should be noted that these figures pre-date the latest Sentencing Council’s guidelines which were introduced in May and, in the case of animal cruelty offences, allow magistrates more flexibility with regard to imposing penalties towards the upper end of the scale.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Offenders found guilty and sentenced at all courts of animal cruelty offences <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2014 to 2016 <sup>(2)(3)(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outcome</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>814</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>622</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>815</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>624</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>146</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>97</p></td><td><p>116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>82</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>58</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>under six months</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>81</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>55</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(1) Defined as being SS4-8 Animal Welfare Act 2006; (2) figures relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the one selected is that for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe; (3) every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, this data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces, so care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when the data is used; (4) the number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty, as a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 6584 question first answered 05/09/2017 16:57:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

754686

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
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 people have received (a) a fine and (b) a custodial sentence of less than six months for animal cruelty offences.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	6584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty and sentenced for offences under Sections 4 to 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in England and Wales from 2014 to 2016 is shown in the table. It should be noted that these figures pre-date the latest Sentencing Council’s guidelines which were introduced in May and, in the case of animal cruelty offences, allow magistrates more flexibility with regard to imposing penalties towards the upper end of the scale.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Offenders found guilty and sentenced at all courts of animal cruelty offences <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2014 to 2016 <sup>(2)(3)(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outcome</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>814</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>622</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>815</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>624</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>146</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>97</p></td><td><p>116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>82</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>58</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>under six months</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>81</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>55</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(1) Defined as being SS4-8 Animal Welfare Act 2006; (2) figures relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the one selected is that for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe; (3) every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, this data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces, so care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when the data is used; (4) the number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty, as a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 6583 question first answered 05/09/2017 16:57:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

754690

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	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, how much was paid in agricultural subsidy payments to maintain grouse moors in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	6340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>Subsidies are not paid to support shooting activities. Grouse moors are also used by farmers for grazing; specific data on payments to farmers who maintain grouse moors is not held as payments under the Common Agricultural Policy are made to eligible claimants on the basis of the area of agricultural land they own, not the activities which may take place on that land. Payments that farmers in moorland areas receive under the Common Agricultural Policy help them maintain our moorlands and deliver a significant boost for tourism and the rural economy in these areas.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/09/2017 13:59:46 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

754691

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Sewers
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 upgrade the sewage system and phase out combined sewers.
tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
tabling member printed	Steve Double
uin	6432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Sewerage undertakers have duties to provide, maintain and improve a public sewer system to effectually drain their area. The Government’s draft strategic policy statement to Ofwat makes it clear that we expect the regulator to challenge sewerage undertakers to improve planning and investment to meet the wastewater needs of current and future customers, while protecting the environment.</p><p> </p><p>Sewerage undertakers must identify solutions that are most effective to carry out their duties. Replacing combined sewers can be part of the solution; elsewhere doing this would be prohibitively expensive. We continue to work with the industry to make sure that sewer overflows that remain an unavoidable part of such systems in extreme conditions are properly controlled. In particular:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Mandating monitoring of the vast majority of overflows by 2020 so their performance is understood, allowing water users and customers to hold water companies to account.</p></li><li><p>Introducing frequency triggers to permits for overflows associated with bathing and shellfish waters from 2017. This should ensure that, as pressures on sewer systems increase, their performance does not deteriorate.</p></li><li><p>Working collaboratively with the industry group 21<sup>st</sup> Century Drainage to develop tools to adequately address the highest spilling overflows.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2017 11:40:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4452 label Biography information for Steve Double

754694

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Air Pollution: Dementia
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 analysis his Department has undertaken of scientific evidence linking air pollution to dementia, and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	6763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department secures advice on effects of air pollution on public health from Public Health England, and the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England continues to keep the evidence under review. COMEAP has been commissioned to further consider the available evidence and will report in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 07/09/2017 10:40:48 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

754695

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Agriculture: Glyphosate
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 his policy is on the use of glyphosate by farmers.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	6815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that effective pesticides should be authorised where the scientific evidence shows they do not pose unacceptable risks to human health or the environment. The European Food Safety Authority has identified no safety concerns arising from the use of glyphosate and UK scientists agree with that conclusion.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/09/2017 17:15:30 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

754696

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing an air quality strategy to improve the capacity of the Government to meet its air quality targets.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	6798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Cleaning up the UK’s air quality and cutting harmful emissions is a priority for this Government.</p><p> </p><p>In July the Government launched the UK plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations. This will require local authorities to produce local air quality plans which reduce NO2 levels in the shortest possible time.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to our work on NO2 we will deliver an updated Clean Air Strategy in 2018. This will set out how we will work towards our international commitments to significantly reduce damaging emissions of five major air pollutants by 2030.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2017 17:07:27 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

754697

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Sewage: Boats
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 he has made of the amount of waste water being released from residential and non-residential boats.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	6817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information in relation to this request.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2017 17:18:11 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

754698

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Eels
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 assessment his Department has made of the fishing industry's compliance with the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dagenham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Jon Cruddas
uin	6810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Compliance with the Eel (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 is assessed against the provision of: catch data for eels less than 12cm long; recorded consignments of live eels from aquaculture businesses; and 60% of live eels (12 cm or less) placed onto the market. The Environment Agency 2016/17 assessment of industry compliance received 390 catch returns from 452 authorised fishers and is pursuing the remainder. All other data was provided.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/09/2017 17:10:38 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1406 label Biography information for Jon Cruddas

754700

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Fly-tipping
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 actions were taken against fly-tipping in (a) Barnsley and (b) nationally in each of the last seven years; and how many of those actions took the form of fixed penalties.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	6686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of recorded actions taken against fly-tipping for both England and for Barnsley over the last seven years is set out in the table below together with the number of fixed penalty notices.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Actions relating to fly-tipping for Barnsley and England - 2009/10 to 2015/16</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Barnsley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Actions</p></td><td><p>Fixed Penalty Notice</p></td><td><p>Total Actions</p></td><td><p>Fixed Penalty Notice</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>537,123</p></td><td><p>25,874</p></td><td><p>737</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>568,052</p></td><td><p>32,963</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>489,815</p></td><td><p>39,314</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>425,235</p></td><td><p>35,433</p></td><td><p>503</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>499,563</p></td><td><p>36,835</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>514,914</p></td><td><p>38,149</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>494,460</p></td><td><p>35,888</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>sourced from the Fly-tipping Module in WasteDataFlow which replaced Flycapture in October 2015</p><p> </p><p>Fly tipping data is routinely collected at a local level and collated nationally. The data is published annually on the GOV.UK website.</p><p>Local authorities adopt different strategies for dealing with fly tipping. Some have well developed procedures for issuing fixed penalty notices. Alternative enforcement options include prosecution, vehicle seizure, formal caution and warning letter.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2017 17:24:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock