Written questions

1,887 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20502, if she will make it her policy to update the Veterinary Medicine Regulations and the Summary of Product Characteristics of a

14 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Written Statement of 12 January 2016, HCWS 462, on December Environment Council, what steps she plans to take to improve the implementation of EU Nature Directives.

14 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 28 measures identified on pages four to six of her Department's publication, Report of the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives Implementation Review, published in

11 Jan 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Census

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to fund co-ordination of the seabird census planned for 2016.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's priorities are for the next round of negotiations on CAP.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of levels of implementation of the greening requirements of the Basic Payment Scheme and its effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and deli

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Neonicotinoids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the process and timetable is for the European Food Safety Agency's review of its restrictions on the use of neonicotinoids; and what representations the UK has made on that review

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on proposals for an EU ban on the prophylactic treatment of groups of animals where no disease has been diagnosed in any of the animals as part of the review of the

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Health Education: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has made to (a) Public Health England and (b) the Department of Health on the inclusion of (i) environmental criteria and (ii) the work of her Department's Gre

2 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury

Landfill Communities Fund

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he made of the effect on (a) environmental bodies, (b) biodiversity conservation, (c) pollution prevention, (d) waste reduction and (e) public parks of the proposed reduction in the Landfill Communiti

2 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Wildlife Crime Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timetable she proposes for deciding on the funding allocation to the National Wildlife Crime Unit from March 2016.

1 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost was of maintaining her Department's properties in (a) London and (b) nationally in 2014-15.

1 Dec 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Government Property Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of her Department's properties will be owned and managed by the Government Property Unit; what the annual rent will be; and what the estimated annual cost is of the services the

30 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding the Government has allocated for flood defence maintenance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20.

30 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Parks

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraph 2.153 of Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what legal flexibilities the Government plans to give to National Parks.

25 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Footpaths: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the funding required to complete the Coastal Path around England by the target date of 2020; and what support her Department is offering to Natural Englan

13 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer about the level of funding for the (a) Food Crime Unit and (b) Food Standards Agency.

13 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for the 25 year plan on biodiversity; and what estimate she has made of the costs of implementing that plan

13 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Food: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the recording of food crime as an identifiable category of crime in police databases.

13 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Seas and Oceans: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) completing the network of Marine Conservation Zones and (b) creating a blue belt around British Overseas Territories.

13 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Inland Waterways and Rivers: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on cleaning rivers and waterways in each of the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the level of such funding in each of the next five year

13 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Protection: Departmental Coordination

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's priorities are for the Clean Growth Committee; what role she will have on that committee; and whether that committee will consider her Department's air quality co

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on measures to improve air quality in each year since 2010-11; how much funding has been allocated to air quality improvement in the 2015-16 financial

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government has spent in England on (a) cattle testing for TB, (b) compensation as a result of a test for bovine TB, (c) surveillance activity associated with bovine TB by

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a cost to benefit analysis of the badger cull.

10 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its arm's length bodies has spent on staff redundancies in each of the last five years.

9 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's forecast expenditure against Departmental Expenditure Limits is in 2015-16; and what her Department's forecast Annually Managed expenditure in 2015-16 was (a) at

9 Nov 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising (i) in 2014-15 prices and (ii)

4 Sep 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Falkland Islands: Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether observers have been placed on any of the vessels which were recently reported to have infringed their licensing agreements in the Falkland Islands to ensure compliance with all li

4 Sep 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Thailand: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Ministerial colleagues and (b) UK-based companies on human rights and the treatment of migrant workers in Thailand.

Source: official written-questions record.