Although the Government has not undertaken this specific assessment, we closely monitor trends in bird populations. These trends have long been considered to provide a good indication of the broad state of our wildlife.<\/p>
<\/p>
In November last year, the Government published Wild Bird Populations in England, 1970 to 2017<\/em>. Overall, this showed that the combined all-species index has changed little compared with around 45 years ago. However, there was much variation in numbers between species, with some species increasing and some species decreasing.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of netting hedgerows on nesting birds.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect and conserve hedgerows.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to include stronger regulation on the netting of hedgerows.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105779", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105779/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Local Authorities have direct responsibility to produce shoreline management plans covering the entire coast of England. These plans provide a long term, sustainable policy framework for local authorities, to manage the risk of coastal change over the next 100 years.<\/p> <\/p> Government is working closely with coastal authorities on a review of shoreline management plans to ensure they are up to date and using the best evidence. Schemes within the current capital investment programme to 2021 benefit from £1.2 billion of investment in coastal erosion and sea flooding projects which will better protect over 170,000 properties.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "What steps he is taking to tackle coastal erosion and flooding.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/818720/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " 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> 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> 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> NUTS1 region<\/strong><\/p><\/td> NUTS1 code<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Total government planned capital expenditure (£m) between April 2015 and March 2021 <\/strong>(Excluding £76m FROM LAST BUDGET)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> East Midlands<\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKF<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 198<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> East of England<\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKH<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 217<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Greater London<\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKI<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 134<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> North East <\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKC<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 46<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> North West <\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKD<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 210<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> South East <\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKJ<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 510<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> South West <\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKK<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 176<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> West Midlands <\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKG<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 75<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Yorkshire and The Humber<\/strong><\/p><\/td> UKE<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 487<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> NATONALLY COORDINATED PROJECT INVESTMENT<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 452<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"}
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], "questionText" : "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.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/676029", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/676029/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Since the Scheme\u2019s launch in April 2016, over 45 insurers are now offering Flood Re backed policies, representing over 90% of the market. Between April and September 2016, the Flood Re Scheme has provided backing to 53,000 policies.<\/p> <\/p> We have no powers to force insurers to make use of Flood Re. These powers, in the Water Act 2014, relate to the flood obligation. Given that Flood Re is operating well, Ministers currently have no intention to use these powers.<\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2017-01-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of home insurers have (i) met and (ii) failed to meet their quotas to issue insurance policies to properties in high flood-risk areas in the last two years; and on how many occasions the Financial Conduct Authority has taken action against insurers who failed to meet those quotas.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/676031/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Environment Agency estimates 585 properties to be in areas at high risk of flooding in Hull. The table below summarises the number of properties in areas at high risk of flooding (as of January 2017) in each nomenclature of territorial units for statistic region 1 or NUTS1 regions of England. High risk means there is a greater than a 3.3% chance of flooding in any given year.<\/p> <\/p>