Written questions

2,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full all monitoring data collected in each year of the badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to (a) protect the Green Belt and (b) maintain national protections for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that high animal welfare standards are incorporated into international trade agreements; and how her Department plans to measure such standards.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to designate the third tranche of Marine Conservation Zones.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to designate the second tranche of Marine Conservation Zones.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Single Inspection Taskforce will be established; and what Departmental resources she will allocate to it in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.

24 Jun 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to designate a marine blue belt around the Overseas Territories to protect marine habitats.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to complete the network of Marine Conservation Zones.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Pocket Parks Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to launch his programme of pocket parks in towns and cities; and what budget he plans to allocate to that programme.

24 Jun 2015 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Marine Conservation Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what resources he plans to allocate to put in place a marine blue belt around the Overseas Territories to protect marine habitats in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Ministers and officials in her Department have met the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the extend to which the presence of antibiotic resistant organisms in the human gut is the result of horizontal gene transmission from bacteria

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of how many apprentices work in the food, farming and agri-tech sector.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department plans to allocate to contributing to achieving the Government's target of three million more apprenticeships by expanding apprenticeships in the food, farmi

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Common Agricultural Policy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her priorities are for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy; and if she will make a statement.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department has allocated to delivery of the Government's 25-year plan to grow, buy and sell more British food.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effect that withdrawal from the EU would have on British farming.

24 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Antibiotics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research her Department has commissioned on horizontal gene transmission between bacteria in the human gut which transfers antibiotic resistance from one organism to another regar

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her evidence to the EFRA Committee on 11 March 2015, HC942, Q397, what recent reports she has received on whether the maps used on the system for making Basic Payment

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, how the £83 million reduction in her Department's budget for 2015-16 will be met by (a) her Department and (b) her De

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, whether any of the £83 million reduction in her Department's budget for 2015-16 will be accounted for by asset sales;

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings will be made to meet planned reductions in her Department's budget; and how much of the overa

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the press release by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, how much of the £83 million reduction in her Department's budget for 2015-16 will be accounted for by underspends; an

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of farmers eligible for the Basic Payment scheme will have registered their claims by the extended deadline of 15 June 2015.

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of farmers who have received EU CAP payments have registered their claim to receive Basic Payment Scheme payments in England.

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers who wish to claim Basic Payment Scheme payments have yet to receive (a) prepopulated forms and (b) maps for use in the paper-based system.

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of Basic Payment Scheme applications will be registered by 15 June 2015; and whether she expects to seek a further extension to the deadline for applications.

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Payments Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what underspends were incurred in (a) Capital DEL and (b) Resource DEL in the Rural Payments Agency at end year 2014-15.

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she has received on whether the one month delay in the Basic Payments Scheme registration deadline for farmers to make their claims under the new CAP will lead to a delay i

4 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what costs (a) her Department and (b) the Royal Payments Agency have incurred through reverting to a paper based system for claiming under the Basic Payments Scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.