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857663

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	Clean Air Zones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether he plans to expand clean air zones.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	904261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities already have powers to create clean air zones. None currently exist but proposals for them are being drawn up by some local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 17:53:44 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

828328

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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	Fly-tipping
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce rates of fly-tipping.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	903551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The penalties for fly-tipping are on summary conviction: imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine or both; and on conviction on Indictment: imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine or both. The removal in 2015 of the £5,000 cap for maximum fines that magistrate’s courts can impose, means that magistrates can hand down a potentially unlimited fine for a fly-tipping summary offence. In May 2016 we introduced fixed penalty notices of up to £400 for small-scale fly-tipping. This provides local authorities with an alternative to prosecutions and take a more proportionate enforcement response.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 the Sentencing Council introduced new sentencing guidelines for environmental crimes, including fly-tipping. The guidelines were published to ensure a consistent approach to these offences is taken by courts in England and Wales. Requests for further guidance were received by the Sentencing Council from the National Fly Tipping Prevention Group, chaired by Defra, and the Environment Agency. This was due to concerns that the fines were not high enough to reflect the seriousness of the offences committed or to have a deterrent effect, and that there was an inconsistency in fine levels across the country. The guidelines encourage magistrates to make more use of the highest levels of fines for some of the more serious offences that come before the courts. It also helps sentencers more easily pitch a fine that is proportionate to the means of the offender.</p><p> </p><p>The Sentencing Council reviewed the effectiveness of the guidelines in 2016. The assessment showed that the level of fines for organisations has risen, but fines for individuals have not seen the same increase. We are looking into this and intend to work with the appropriate people in the court system for a consistent application of the guidelines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 26/01/2018 14:49:52 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

830328

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Environment Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress has been made on implementing his Department's 25 Year Environment Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	uin	903547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is already implementing commitments in the plan. We recently consulted on proposals to ban UK sales of ivory, are bringing into force rules to reduce water pollution from agriculture and are legislating to set limits on air pollutants emitted from medium sized combustion plants. Since the plan’s publication, several supermarkets and restaurants have pledged to tackle plastic packaging and single-use plastics.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 31/01/2018 12:09:25 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

830329

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Hill Farming
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans he has to support the livelihood of English and Welsh upland farmers in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
	uin	903548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>Leaving the EU presents a major opportunity for us to design new policies which are based on public money for public goods. Traditional upland landscapes provide many environmental and cultural benefits which we value. The Government is looking at the implications of proposed policy changes and will consult before the introduction of the Agriculture Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 26/01/2018 13:21:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

857665

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	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	River Lea: Pollution Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Environment Agency in preventing oil spills in the River Lea; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	904264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the replies previously given on 6 March 2018, PQs 129872, 129873, 129874 and 129875. Whilst it is not possible to prevent all oil spills into the river, in this incident, the Environment Agency have traced the waste oil to a potential polluter, details of which cannot currently be released due to the ongoing investigation. In previous incidents where oil pollution was not traced to a particular source, the Environment Agency carried out pollution prevention visits at industrial premises which drain to the Pymmes Brook.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 16:07:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

837828

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	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	Agriculture: Subsidies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to communicate to farmers how the Basic Payment Scheme will operate in 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	126859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We plan to guarantee that Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments will continue for a transition period in England, lasting a number of years beyond the implementation period. During this transition period, we propose to first reduce the largest BPS payments in England. We will consult widely on both the approach to reducing payments and on how long the transition should be. We will set out further detail in our command paper, which we plan to publish this spring.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/02/2018 11:36:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

828764

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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: Chief Scientific Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs, how many meetings he held with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between October 2017 and December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	124402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs held nine meetings with, or involving, his Chief Scientific Advisor between October 2017 and December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/01/2018 14:26:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

855630

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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: Apprentices
	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 and what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	130937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>This Parliamentary Question has been answered factually for Core Defra only. As at 31 January 2018 the number of Apprentices employed in the department was 32 or 1% of the total payroll workforce.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/03/2018 13:20:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

818720

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs, with reference to page 135 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to (a) flood defence schemes and (b) household flood protection in each NUTS 1 region.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	121484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is investing £2.6 billion (including the additional £76m announced in the last Budgert) between 2015 and 2021, delivering at least 1,500 new flood defence schemes and better protecting 300,000 homes. The six year Capital Investment Programme will provide Flood Defence Grant-in-Aid as shown below for flood and coastal risk management schemes by NUTS 1 regions.</p><p> </p><p>Where appropriate, property level flood protection measures are integrated within flood risk management schemes. The Government does not hold information centrally about the breakdown of spending for individual elements, such as property level protection measures, of these schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The nationally coordinated project investment includes flood defences which are located in more than one NUTS 1 region, and capitalised costs which support the development of these physical and natural defences.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NUTS1 region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NUTS1 code</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total government planned capital expenditure (£m) between April 2015 and March 2021 </strong>(Excluding £76m FROM LAST BUDGET)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>198</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East of England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKH</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>217</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Greater London</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKI</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>134</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKC</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North West </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>210</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South East </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKJ</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>510</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South West </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKK</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>176</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West Midlands </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKG</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>75</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Yorkshire and The Humber</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UKE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>487</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NATONALLY COORDINATED PROJECT INVESTMENT</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>452</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/01/2018 17:26:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

816805

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	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	Natural England: Equal 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, with reference to the transparency document entitled Natural England Gender Pay Gap Report 2017, if he will set out the pay gap data on ordinary pay and bonus pay by (a) grade and (b) profession.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	121232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>For clarity, it should be recognised that this question is about equal pay, as it is by grade, rather than the gender pay gap which applies to the whole of an organisation. The data provided in Natural England’s response is based on the data used for Natural England’s Gender Pay Gap Report 2017. Natural England will be undertaking an Equal Pay Audit in 2018, which will include other protected characteristics.</p><p>a) Natural England’s mean &amp; median pay gap data by grade are shown in the table below. Negative figures represent a pay gap in favour of females.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean Pay Gap</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Median Pay Gap</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apprentice (1st Year)</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apprentice (After 1st year)</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-4.5%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>-0.9%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-3.4%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>4.5%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8.1%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>4.7%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7.1%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>12.8%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS1</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.8%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS2</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS3</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Board Member</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-1.4%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10.90%</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>13.2%</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>* Natural England has no substantive females at SCS2 / SCS3 hence the 100% GAP</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bonus Pay Gap</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Mean Pay Gap</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Median Pay Gap</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apprentice (1st Year)**</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apprentice (After 1st year)**</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-3.9%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-3.6%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4.3%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7.8%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-13.9%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>95.5%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>95.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>100.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Board Member**</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>20.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>* Natural England has no substantive females at SCS2 / SCS3 hence the 100% GAP ** Not Eligible for bonus</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>b) We do not hold data by profession for Natural England so are unable to provide this.</p><p> </p><p>Key to addressing the gender pay gap in Natural England is the progression of women’s careers. Natural England has a number of measures in place to do this. These include participation in Civil Service talent programmes which have recently become available to Non-Departmental Public Bodies: for example - Positive Action Pathways (talent programmes for under-represented groups) and Crossing Thresholds (a career development programme for Women). Natural England also runs its own annual Future Leadership Programme and, when appropriate, a Senior Leadership Programme. Natural England also runs a mutual mentoring scheme and has a gender champion and network in place, their role being to further and promote women’s interests in Natural England. They are critical to building a better understanding of and finding ways to meet the support women say they want to progress their careers. Natural England is continuously looking at and drawing on best practice across the Defra group and wider Civil Service to support women.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/01/2018 14:20:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett