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99821

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	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 Industry Act 1991
	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 17 October 2014 to Question 209943, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that contraventions of the Water Industry Act 1991 are being detected.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	211016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Drinking Water Inspectorate, Environment Agency and Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) are responsible for ensuring that contraventions of the Water Industry Act 1991 are detected. In discharging their functions they undertake inspections, check compliance, review plans and reports, investigate incidents and act upon their findings. Each organisation publishes details annually of the action they have taken.</p><p>Further to their powers within the Water Industry Act 1991 the Environment Agency and Ofwat are Prescribed Persons on The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014 (SI No. 2418) with regard to whistle blowing.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/10/2014 17:12:32 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

99825

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	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	Japanese Knotweed
	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 current legislative proposals there are for the better control of Japanese knotweed.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
	uin	211038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Japanese knotweed is listed on Schedule 9 and subject to Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it an offence to plant this species in the wild or cause it to grow in the wild.</p><p>Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 provides local authorities with a discretionary power to require the landowner to clean up 'land adversely affecting the amenity of the neighbourhood’. Local authorities also have the power to undertake clean-up works themselves under Section 215 and to recover costs from the landowner. However, the decision whether to take action in individual cases is a matter for the local authority concerned, which will need to take into account all the local circumstances.</p><p>Since 20 October, local councils and police have the power to issue Community Protection Notices (CPNs) under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. CPNs can be used against individuals or businesses who are acting unreasonably and who persistently or continually act in a way that has a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality. If this test is met then a written warning should be given. If this warning fails to stop the anti-social behaviour then a CPN may be issued. This will require an individual or business to stop the anti-social behaviour identified in the notice, for example to control or prevent the growth of Japanese knotweed or any other invasive species. A breach of a CPN is a criminal offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/10/2014 17:15:33 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

99826

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	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	Japanese Knotweed
	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 discussions she has had with the property and mortgage industries regarding the impact of Japanese knotweed on property values.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
	uin	211037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not had any discussions with the property and mortgage industries regarding the impact of Japanese Knotweed on property values.</p><p>The Government does not intervene directly in such matters as it is the right of mortgage lenders to choose to whom they lend money and what conditions should apply to any agreement, which could include the seller having to provide insurance.</p><p>An information paper was published in 2011 by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors to encourage mortgage lenders to view Japanese knotweed as just one of the many factors that may affect property value. It advocates that mortgage lenders draw up knotweed management plans with the buyer and, where possible, owners of affected neighbouring properties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/10/2014 17:17:48 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

92531

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	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	Pay
	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 staff of her Department or its contractors who are responsible for drafting responses to Parliamentary Questions are paid below the rate of the London living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	209931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Answers to Parliamentary Questions are drafted by staff across the Department. Whilst core Defra has no direct employees paid less than the London Living Wage there are a small number of temporary staff from employment agencies who are paid less than the London Living Wage. Senior Civil Servants are responsible for providing final advice and draft responses to Ministers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 27/10/2014 16:54:09 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff