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1006887

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to protect the environment after the UK leaves the EU; and whether those steps will aim to maintain existing levels of protection as required under current EU legislation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	191300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to maintaining environmental standards after we leave the EU, and will continue to uphold international obligations through multilateral environmental agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The EU (Withdrawal) Act will ensure existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law after the UK leaves the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will establish a new, independent statutory body to hold Government to account on the environment, alongside a statutory statement of environmental principles to guide future Government policy making.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/11/2018 10:41:47 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1006908

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on the delivery of the targets in the Government's 25 year environment plan.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to delivering the 25 Year Environment Plan and to be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than we inherited it. These commitments remain in a deal or no deal scenario. The EU Withdrawal Act 2018 will ensure all existing EU environmental law continues to operate in UK law.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/11/2018 10:45:58 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006909

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for the UK's environmental governance of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The EU (Withdrawal) Act will ensure existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law after the UK leaves the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to the creation of a new body to hold the Government to account on its compliance with environmental law. We will work to ensure that the new body is in place as soon as possible in a no deal scenario with the necessary powers to review and if necessary, take enforcement action in respect of breaches of environmental law from when the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union has ended in a no deal scenario, from 23:00 on 29 March 2019 onwards. This will mean that the Government will be held accountable as under existing EU law from the day we leave the EU. Any further interim measures that may be necessary under a no deal scenario before the new body is established will be brought forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/11/2018 12:54:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006910

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on the planned environment Bill.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to maintaining environmental standards after we leave the EU, and will continue to uphold international obligations through multilateral environmental agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The EU Withdrawal Act 2018 will ensure all existing EU environmental law continues to operate in UK law, transferring powers from EU institutions to domestic institutions and ensuring we meet international agreement obligations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to the creation of a new body to hold the Government to account on its compliance with environmental law. We will work to ensure that the new body is in place as soon as possible in a no deal scenario with the necessary powers to review and, if necessary, take enforcement action in respect of breaches of environmental law from when the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice has ended in a no deal scenario, this will be from 23:00 on 29 March 2019 onwards. This will mean that the Government will be held accountable as under existing EU law from the day we leave the EU. Any further interim measures that may be necessary under a no deal scenario before the new body is established will be brought forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/11/2018 12:26:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006914

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the internal and external communications functions of Natural England have been moved into the centrally managed work of his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Corporate Services enable the Defra group to operate by providing critical IT systems, HR and finance support, property management, legal advice, and procurement and communications services. Historically, teams have been fragmented across the Defra group, with each delivery body running their own corporate services, working to different policies, processes and systems. Having recognised the cost of complexity from this way of working, we have integrated functional teams across the group in order to drive out inefficiency and improve support to the business. Through this approach we are on track to deliver £124m of savings over the Spending Review 2015 period. At the same time we expect corporate services teams to remain an integrated and integral part of the organisations they support through our business partner-led model.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 191372 191373 191375 question first answered 22/11/2018 14:04:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006915

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the human resource functions of Natural England have been moved into the centrally managed work of his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Corporate Services enable the Defra group to operate by providing critical IT systems, HR and finance support, property management, legal advice, and procurement and communications services. Historically, teams have been fragmented across the Defra group, with each delivery body running their own corporate services, working to different policies, processes and systems. Having recognised the cost of complexity from this way of working, we have integrated functional teams across the group in order to drive out inefficiency and improve support to the business. Through this approach we are on track to deliver £124m of savings over the Spending Review 2015 period. At the same time we expect corporate services teams to remain an integrated and integral part of the organisations they support through our business partner-led model.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 191371 191373 191375 question first answered 22/11/2018 14:04:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006916

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the financial management functions of Natural England have been moved into the centrally managed work of his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Corporate Services enable the Defra group to operate by providing critical IT systems, HR and finance support, property management, legal advice, and procurement and communications services. Historically, teams have been fragmented across the Defra group, with each delivery body running their own corporate services, working to different policies, processes and systems. Having recognised the cost of complexity from this way of working, we have integrated functional teams across the group in order to drive out inefficiency and improve support to the business. Through this approach we are on track to deliver £124m of savings over the Spending Review 2015 period. At the same time we expect corporate services teams to remain an integrated and integral part of the organisations they support through our business partner-led model.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 191371 191372 191375 question first answered 22/11/2018 14:04:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006917

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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
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 he has made whether there are possible conflicts of interest arising from the Chair of Natural England sitting on the board of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Chair of Natural England was invited to join the Defra board as an ex-officio member in August 2015. This was to facilitate more effective joint working across the Defra group, which is in line with current <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/594345/Partnerships_between_departments_and_arm_s_length_bodies-code_of_good_practice.pdf" target="_blank">Cabinet Office guidance</a> (paragraph 3.4). Any personal conflicts of interest are recorded on the Natural England register, and board members are required to state any relevant conflicts of interest during a standing item at the start of each board meeting.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 22/11/2018 13:55:06 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006918

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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
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 16th October 2018 to Question 176216 on Natural England: Staff, what assessment he has made of the effect of the transfer of roles in finance, communication, and human resources from Natural England to his Department on the independence of Natural England.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Corporate Services enable the Defra group to operate by providing critical IT systems, HR and finance support, property management, legal advice, and procurement and communications services. Historically, teams have been fragmented across the Defra group, with each delivery body running their own corporate services, working to different policies, processes and systems. Having recognised the cost of complexity from this way of working, we have integrated functional teams across the group in order to drive out inefficiency and improve support to the business. Through this approach we are on track to deliver £124m of savings over the Spending Review 2015 period. At the same time we expect corporate services teams to remain an integrated and integral part of the organisations they support through our business partner-led model.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 191371 191372 191373 question first answered 22/11/2018 14:04:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1007174

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	Birds: Malvern Hills
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 are in place to monitor the effect on skylarks of Natural England-funded grazing on the Malvern hills.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	191481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Natural England has no internal, formal monitoring programme for skylarks on the Malvern Hills, but uses the annual monitoring results from the local bird group to inform decisions on management. Natural England also takes advice from its national bird specialist on national skylark population trends.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 21/11/2018 10:50:52 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran