Written questions

2,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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 penalties her Department will incur under the CAP regime for late applications for payments under the Basic Payments Scheme.

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

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will compensate farmers who have already paid agents or third party suppliers to register their Basic Payments Scheme claims online for additional charges incurred by them.

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 assessment she has made of the time taken for the mapping functionality of the Rural Payment's Agency computer for Basic Payments Scheme applications to fully work; and what asses

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 progress her Department is making in ensuring the mapping functionality of the system for making payments under the Basic Payments Scheme is working; and if she will make a statem

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

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what budget stream will the additional costs her Department and the Royal Payments Agency have incurred as a result of changes to the process for submitting an application for th

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 payments will be made to UK farmers when the payment window opens in December 2015; and if she will make a statement.

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 have been helped at each of the drop-in centres established by the Rural Payments Agency to help register claims under the Basic Payment scheme.

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 UK farmers have had to resubmit their Basic Payment scheme application because of data being lost when submitted through the online system operated by the Rural Payments Agenc

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

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the funding for flood protection was provided through (a) her Department's standard partnership funding framework, (b) private sector contributions and (c) other pub

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 UK farmers have had to resubmit their Basic Payment Scheme applications as a result of errors in the information supplied to them on paper based pre-populated forms and maps.

11 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding for flood protection is planned to be raised through a standard partnership funding framework in each year between 2015-16 and 2020-21.

11 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the total funding for flood protection has been provided through (a) her Department's standard partnership funding framework, (b) private sector contributions and (c

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Avian Influenza: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent reports she has received on the outbreak of H5N8 avian flu in Yorkshire.

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many frontline flood defence staff were employed by the Environment Agency in each year since 2010-11; and how many such staff are planned to be employed in 2015-16.

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2014 to Question 211130, how many people monitored the badger cull in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) Somerset on each night of each such cull during t

24 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which government departments were given advice by her Department in its role overseeing sustainable development across central government in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Transport

Railways: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the funding made available to improve rail resilience to flooding has been (a) allocated to Network Rail and (b) spent to date.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting Act 2004

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to repeal the Hunting Act 2004 this session.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food and Environment Research Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what bids her Department has received from the private sector to be a joint venture partner for the Food and Environment Research Agency.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to respond to the International Panel on Climate Change's report entitled Climate change 2014: Impacts, adaption and vulnerability.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on bovine TB control in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on the implementation of badger culls for bovine TB control, and the costs to police forces of these culls in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Farming Recovery Fund to cover the cost of restoration of agricultural land following the winter floods has been received by farmers and businesses to date.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food and Environment Research Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to make a final decision on the preferred bidder for the joint venture partner for the Food and Environment Research Agency.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Support for Fisherman Fund to replace lost and damaged fishing gear has been received by fishermen and businesses to date.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Ministers in her Department have received media or communication training paid for by her Department.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the 890 flood defences damaged as result of the winter floods in 2013-14 have been repaired to date.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department plans to spend on capital investment to improve flood defences in each year from 2015-16 to 2020-21.

20 Nov 2014 · 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 reducing nitrogen dioxide and improving air quality in each year since 2010-11.

20 Nov 2014 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food and Environment Research Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has found a joint venture partner for the Food and Environment Research Agency; and if she will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.