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731149

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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: Vacancies
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 the farming sector to mitigate the effect of EU workforce shortages.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>Employers in the sectors are free to continue to recruit EU workers to meet their labour needs, and we remain closely engaged with the industry to ensure that we are informed of their latest intelligence on labour demand.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office intends to commission the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to better understand the reliance on EU migrant workers across the economy and consider the UK’s labour market needs.</p><p> </p><p>In the longer-term, the Government is considering the options for our future immigration system very carefully. We are looking to develop a system which works for all, and will ensure that businesses and communities have the opportunity to contribute their views.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 231 question first answered 26/06/2017 16:37:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720273

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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, what information her Department holds on the number of staff who have been employed by local authorities with a responsibility for air quality in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra does not hold information on the number of staff who have been employed by local authorities with responsibility for air quality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/04/2017 16:44:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720274

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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, what information her Department holds on the amount which has been spent by local authorities on monitoring and improving air quality in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra does not hold information on the amount which has been spent by local authorities on monitoring and improving air quality in each of the last ten years.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/04/2017 16:41:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720430

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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: 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, what research she has commissioned on the potential effect on agricultural exports of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government continues to undertake a range of analyses to inform the UK’s position for the upcoming EU exit negotiations. We are determined to get the best possible deal for the UK in our negotiations to leave the EU, which allows frictionless trade in goods and services and the opportunity to reach new agreements with countries around the world.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/04/2017 12:12:24 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720431

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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: Monitoring
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 she has made of the capacity of local authorities to monitor air quality (a) at present and (b) after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Defra has made no specific assessment of the capacity of local authorities to monitor air quality at present or after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 20/04/2017 16:22:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720538

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) premature deaths and (b) illnesses have been attributed to poor air quality in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>In 2010 the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants published the report “The Mortality Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution in the United Kingdom”, which concluded, using 2008 data, that the 2008 burden of man-made particulate matter air pollution is, an effect on mortality equivalent to nearly 29,000 deaths in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 a Public Health England (PHE) report estimated the annual mortality burden attributable to long-term exposure to man-made particulate air pollution as being equivalent to 25,000 deaths in England.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the fraction of mortality attributable to long-term exposure to man-made particulate air pollution for local authority areas in England (2010-15) are provided by the Public Health Outcomes Framework indicator 3.01.,available to view here:</p><p><a href="http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#pat/6/ati/102/par/E12000004" target="_blank">http://www.phoutcomes.info/search/air%20pollution#pat/6/ati/102/par/E12000004</a></p><p> </p><p>PHE has not quantified the number of illnesses attributed to poor air quality for each of the last ten years.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 20/04/2017 10:46:21 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

720823

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Jobcentres: Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many food bank referrals have been made by jobcentres in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	70779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus does not make direct referrals to foodbanks but has offered a signposting service since 2011 to those who have expressed an interest in using a foodbank. No data is held on the number using the signposting service.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/04/2017 16:03:48 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

715051

registered interest
date	29/03/2017
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	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 the average amount of compensation paid, per animal, to dairy farmers whose herds have been compulsorily slaughtered for bovine TB has been in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	69754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The average amount of compensation paid, per animal, to dairy farmers whose cattle have been compulsory slaughtered for bovine TB for the last five years is shown in the table below. These include all reactors and contacts. It is rarely necessary to slaughter an entire herd.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Average Value</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£1,205.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£1,181.03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£1,151.47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£1,066.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£936.54</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The values in the table are for England only. Both the Scottish and Welsh Governments pay and record compensation payments separately to farmers who have had their animal’s compulsory slaughtered for bovine TB.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 18/04/2017 11:01:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

711443

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
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	Salmon: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2016 to Question 56672, on salmon: conservation, when fisheries representatives will be informed of the outcomes from the multi-organisation working groups.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	68209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Good progress continues to be made on the Five Point Approach to Salmon and the Environment Agency will be reporting on progress this autumn.</p><p> </p><p>Priority is currently directed towards an informal byelaw consultation, which will commence in April and will focus on all salmon rod and net fisheries in England. The Environment Agency wishes to fully understand the consequences of all the options which will be proposed in the informal consultation to evaluate their effectiveness to individual river salmon stocks. The Environment Agency will consider the responses over the summer with a view to advertising any new byelaws in October 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Interested fisheries representatives will be able to respond to this consultation process. The outcomes of the informal consultation and progress on the other four work streams of the Five Point Approach will be covered in the autumn progress report.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/03/2017 16:15:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

711444

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
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	Salmon: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2016 to Question 56672, on salmon: conservation, what reporting mechanisms the Environment Agency has in place to ensure that regular updates on progress are made.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	68210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Annex 1 of the ‘Salmon Five Point Approach – restoring salmon in England’ sets out a series of commitments and delivery timescales.</p><p> </p><p>All of the multi-agency groups report internally to the Environment Agency as agreed in their individual project plans. In addition, at the end of this year, the Environment Agency plans to produce an update on the total progress made on the Five Point Approach.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/03/2017 16:24:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock