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443243

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	Hunting
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 her Department plans to make an assessment of the humaneness of hunting with dogs.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to make an assessment of the humaneness of hunting with dogs. However, in 1999 a Government Committee (the Burns Inquiry) was set up to examine the facts in the debate about hunting with dogs, including whether hunting with dogs is cruel. The findings of the inquiry were published on 9 June 2000 (<a href="http://www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk/mainsections/huntingframe.htm" target="_blank">www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk/mainsections/huntingframe.htm</a>).</p><br /><p>On 12 March 2001 Lord Burns stated: “… There was not sufficient verifiable evidence or data safely to reach views about cruelty. It is a complex area …&quot;. [Hansard 12 March 2001; col. 533</p><p><a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/2001/mar/12/hunting-bill" target="_blank">http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/2001/mar/12/hunting-bill</a>].</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/01/2016 16:07:32 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

443244

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	Floods: Agriculture
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 she plans to extend the Farming Recovery Fund to provide support for farmers in all areas affected by the recent flooding.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	21517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>We have extended the Farming Recovery Fund to allow eligible farmers in Lancashire and Yorkshire impacted by storm Eva, which hit over Christmas Day and Boxing Day, to be able to apply for support.</p><br /><p>The deadline for applications has been extended from 18 March 2016 to 1 April 2016 to provide further time for affected farmers to apply.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/01/2016 17:43:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

443245

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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: EU Law
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 effect of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive 2000 on how floods have been controlled in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	21541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Implementation of the Water Framework Directive is devolved within the UK.</p><br /><p>Implementation of the Directive promotes, through river basin planning, an integrated approach to managing water and promotes local decisions in catchments to take account of the particular circumstances. Where parts of rivers are managed for certain uses (including flood protection), they are formally designated as ‘heavily modified’ and the management of those rivers must take account of those uses. In England, 1,105 of 3,767 rivers are designated as heavily modified; 781 of them because of their important role in providing flood protection.</p><p>Many of the actions needed to protect and improve the quality of the water environment (for instance restoring peat land, wetland creation and sustainable management of soils) also help to reduce flooding. The Directive also promotes sustainable flood risk prevention and flood management schemes. Consideration of natural flood management measures to slow, store and filter flood water can deliver additional social and environmental benefits when used along with traditional hard defences, and can increase resilience of communities to extreme events, both floods and drought. The ‘Slowing the Flow’ project in Pickering is an example of this.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/01/2016 16:02:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

443246

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing the Natural England report, Vital Uplands, published in 2009, in respect of restoration of deep upland vegetation to control hillside water run-off and valley flooding.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	21542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Vital Uplands report of 2009 was withdrawn by the previous Natural England Board and Management Team. Natural England, the Environment Agency, Defra and by academic institutions continue to closely monitor the complex science and evidence around upstream mitigation, through peatland, forestry and other natural measures. Some such measures have now been funded by the Government and piloted in schemes such as that in Pickering in Yorkshire. Natural upstream mitigation will be a key element of our planning at a catchment level, currently being taken forward through the Cumbrian Floods Partnership and our 25-year Environment Plan.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2016 13:44:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

443247

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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	Hunting Act 2004
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 recent discussions she has had with her ministerial colleagues on the Hunting Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State regularly discusses all relevant polices with her ministerial colleagues as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2016 15:47:27 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

443252

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
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: Stoke on Trent
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 jobs in (a) her Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies (i) have been abolished or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent since 2010 and (ii) will be abolished in or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	21447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, its executive agencies non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies have no offices in Stoke-on-Trent, and therefore no jobs have been abolished since 2010 nor are any to be abolished or relocated by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/01/2016 15:41:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

442923

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Peatlands: 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, how much her Department has allocated for the maintenance and restoration of peatlands in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	21354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced budgets for all Government Departments covering the Spending Review period (2016/17 to 2019/20) on 25 November 2015. Defra is currently deciding how this translates into internal allocations for both the core Department and its Network Bodies. Budget decisions for 2016/17 are expected to be confirmed before the end of February.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2016 13:03:31 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

442924

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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: Per Capita Costs
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 her article of 30 December 2015 in the Yorkshire Post, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the Government is investing £54 per person on flood defences in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, the East Midlands and Northumbria, and £42 per person in the South East.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	21375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The figures on which the statement is based represent the total amount of Government Grant in Aid for flood and coastal erosion risk management in the Environment Agency regions stated between 2015/16 – 2020/21, divided by the total population of those regions.</p><br /> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/01/2016 12:45:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

442927

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	White Fish: Fishing Catches
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 use she plans to make of the granting of (a) exemptions and (b) increased vessel limits for gillnetting of sea bass to achieve quota recommendations from the International Council for Exploration of the Sea.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The package of EU bass measures agreed at the December Fisheries Council included derogations and differentiated catch limits for fixed gillnets. The legislative arrangements do not include a mechanism for granting or withholding such provisions by Member States, although Member States may impose more stringent standards at national level if considered appropriate.</p><br /><p>With regard to the recommendations from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member on 12<sup>th</sup> January 2016, PQ UIN 20832.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/01/2016 16:15:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

442928

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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	Dogs: Smuggling
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 findings of the report by the Dogs Trust entitled, Puppy Smuggling, the Scandal Continues, published in July 2015, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the reasons for the illegal landing of puppies for commercial sale identified in that report.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	21392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The Dogs Trust’s report highlights that responsibility for stopping the illegal movement of puppies begins in the country where they are born. The UK Chief Veterinary Officer has written to the authorities in the countries highlighted in the report to remind them of their duty to ensure that the requirements of the EU pet travel scheme must be fully complied with. This approach has previously resulted in investigations in EU Member States and appropriate action being taken, including the suspension of veterinarian licenses. We will continue to alert the authorities in any Member State where we become aware of issues in relation to the operation of the pet travel scheme.</p><br /><p>The UK carries out more checks on pets at the border than most other EU Member States and stringent penalties are in place where people are found to be breaking the rules. Defra actively shares intelligence it gathers relating to abuse of the pet travel scheme with Local Authorities (who are enforcement bodies) and other EU countries for them to further investigate and take any necessary action.</p><br /><p>The illegal trade is ultimately driven by demand for cheap, pedigree puppies and so we have published guidance on the steps pet owners can take to avoid buying an illegally imported pet. See: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog</a>. Defra has also worked closely with the Pet Advertising Advisory Group to drive up standards for online advertisements.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/01/2016 13:21:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham