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839036

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	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	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 steps his Department is taking to improve measurement of PM2.5 particles across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	127596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of PM<sub>2.5 </sub>levels in the UK uses direct monitoring alongside air quality modelling. We have a network comprising 163 direct monitoring sites providing near-real-time data to our UK-AIR website: <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a>. Of these, 77 monitor PM<sub>2.5.</sub> Modelling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> is reviewed regularly to take account of changes in sources of emissions to ensure accurate measurement.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides technical and policy guidance to local authorities to assist them in meeting their air quality management responsibilities including air quality monitoring and assessment. Defra also provides technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk (phone, email and webpage).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 127597 question first answered 26/02/2018 13:14:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

839037

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	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	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, whether his Department will work with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide guidance to local councils on ensuring air quality monitors record fine particulate matter, PM2.5.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	127597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Assessment of PM<sub>2.5 </sub>levels in the UK uses direct monitoring alongside air quality modelling. We have a network comprising 163 direct monitoring sites providing near-real-time data to our UK-AIR website: <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk</a>. Of these, 77 monitor PM<sub>2.5.</sub> Modelling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> is reviewed regularly to take account of changes in sources of emissions to ensure accurate measurement.</p><p> </p><p>Defra provides technical and policy guidance to local authorities to assist them in meeting their air quality management responsibilities including air quality monitoring and assessment. Defra also provides technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk (phone, email and webpage).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 127596 question first answered 26/02/2018 13:14:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

802268

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	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: South West
	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 have been culled in the south west of England in the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	117955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The statistics for badgers culled during 2016 can be found via the following link:-</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578436/summary-badger-control-monitoring-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578436/summary-badger-control-monitoring-2016.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Cull statistics for 2017 will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/12/2017 18:18:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

825745

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2018
	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: Former Members
	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 former Conservative Members of Parliament who were defeated at the 2017 general election and who now work in his Department were appointed after a publicly advertised and open recruitment process.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	123812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>No former Conservative Members of Parliament defeated at the 2017 general election have been appointed to the department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/01/2018 17:57:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1037809

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	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: Social Media
	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 money his Department has spent on (a) Facebook and (b) Instagram advertising in each of the past five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	206471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Digital advertising is a cost-effective way for the government to recruit nurses, promote blood donations, find out about pensions and all the other important information the public needs to be aware of.</p><p>The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has spent £14,955.67 on Facebook and £63,865.00 on Instagram promoted activity since 2014.</p><p>The figures set out in the table below do not include any recruitment promotion as there is no record held centrally. If we were to provide this data, it would involve working with 24 recruitment leads across Defra, therefore could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, the table does include the following promotions:</p><ul><li><p>Summer of Great British Food (2016)</p></li><li><p>Great British Food (2017)</p></li><li><p>25 Year Environment Plan &amp; Future Farming consultation (2018)</p></li></ul><p>The majority of the communications advertising spend was on promoting British food through the Department’s Food is GREAT Instagram channel.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Facebook</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Instagram</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£8000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£43,685.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>£14,955.67</p></td><td><p>£12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£14,955.67</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£63,685.00</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 11:32:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1052464

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2019
	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	Fisheries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he first became aware that UK fishers have been harvesting immature welks under the minimum landing size; and if will he make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	215615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Most whelks in the UK are found in our inshore fisheries and as such many are subject to local controls as well as national or EU restrictions. The Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs) have powers in place to enforce the minimum conservation reference size for whelks. Where an offence is discovered the relevant IFCA would deal with this in line with their published compliance and enforcement strategy, which allows for a range of sanctions aimed at seeking better compliance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 12:58:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1052465

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2019
	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	Fisheries
	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 oral contribution of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of 29 January 2019, Official Report, column 9, on what date his Department plans to lay before Parliament a draft Statutory Instrument to ban electro-pulse beam fishing.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	215616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The draft Statutory Instrument containing the pulse beam trawling amendments, The Common Fisheries Policy and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, is due to be laid on 12 February. The relevant amendments are in Part 3, Amendments of the Technical Conservation Regulations.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 13:11:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

843956

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Fisheries
	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 support the under-10 metre fishing fleet in the Fisheries Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	128072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>We will use the opportunity afforded us by leaving the EU to develop our own world-leading fisheries management regime and are currently working closely with the industry and other stakeholders to understand their priorities for reform.</p><p> </p><p>The content of the Fisheries Bill will be announced in the usual manner in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/02/2018 12:09:41 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

843957

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Fisheries: Sustainable Development
	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 allocation of fishing opportunities in UK waters to reflect the ability of boats to meet environmental, social and economic sustainability criteria.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	128342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK regularly reviews its annual allocation policy to ensure that fishing opportunities are allocated for the benefit of the whole of the UK, taking into account the needs of those within existing Producer Organisations (POs) and the needs of the under 10m fleet. The UK has long championed sustainable fisheries and we continue to place scientific-based management at the heart of policy. The UK’s coastal fishing communities are immensely valuable and supporting them, along with the inshore fleet, is a central tenet of our work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/02/2018 12:14:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

731484

	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	Fisheries: Treaties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to trigger the UK's exit from the London Convention.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>We will set out our plans to fulfil our manifesto commitment in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/06/2017 15:51:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard