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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Information Officers (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The total cost of employing staff in the DEFRA press office for the period of 1 April 2009 to 28 February 2010 was £906,316.80. Figures for March 2010 are not yet available. DEFRA was established in 2001. There are therefore no figures available for press office costs in 1996-97.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Internet (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: There have been no complaints about the DEFRA website in the last three years through DEFRA's formal complaints process or via ministerial correspondence. We do not keep statistics of the ad hoc website feedback received by e-mail through the "Contact Us" option on the site. Where negative comments are received they are generally about the content rather than the operation of the website. In...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Internet (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: Expenditure on external website design consultants in the last three years is shown in the following table. Design consultancy costs (£) 2007-08 0 2008-09 59,447 2009-10 56,979 Full external costs for the DEFRA website for this period were provided in the answer given on 27 January 2010, Official Report, column 871W to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps).

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Language Coaching (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: In the last 12 months 13 staff members have received foreign language coaching at a cost of £11,643.90. The coaching is provided in French, Spanish and German. DEFRA has significant involvement in the EU policy agenda and the provision of language training for appropriate staff helps ensure that the Department can engage effectively with its European contacts. Ministers did not receive...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Legal Costs (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: There have been no legal cases wholly concerning remuneration of employees brought against the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs or its executive agencies for the past four years. DEFRA is not able to provide data for any period prior to this. There are a number of cases concerning remuneration currently in progress but figures for these are not yet available as proceedings are...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Official Hospitality (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: DEFRA and its agencies conduct many public events throughout the year and the costs of each are carefully managed to ensure best value for money is achieved consistent with the objectives and purpose of the event. No central record is maintained of these events. DEFRA does not conduct hospitality events, these being precluded by the civil service code. But some hospitality, e.g. refreshments...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Publications (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: We have arranged for a copy of each of the last 10 editions of Landscape to be placed in the Library.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Telephone Services (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: With reference to the answer of 3 November 2009, Official Report, column 801W, and from information held centrally a contract was awarded to Vertex Data Science Ltd. on 18 October 2008 for a period of five years, to expire 17 October 2013. The helpline contract provides a single point of contact for all DEFRA general inquiries.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Farming Link (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: holding answer 6 April 2010 Farming Link is a 16-page full-colour A4 magazine and is DEFRA's main way of communicating with farmers and growers. It is produced and distributed to 136,462 addresses four times a year. As well as a printed version, an online version is produced which includes a searchable PDF as well as individual articles. Costs for 2009-10 were as follows: Edition ...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oils: Waste Disposal (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The following tables show the data requested. Total exported Tonnes Italy Germany Other EU member states 2007 0 257.75 6370.41 2008 0 280.24 13104.52 2009 0 5090.89 8588.16 2010 0 324.72 3250.14 Total exported for re-refining Tonnes Italy Germany Other EU member states 2007 0 257.75 4261.17 2008 0 0 5287.83 2009 0...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oils: Waste Disposal (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: DEFRA continues to maintain regular contact with the waste oil industry on a variety of issues affecting the management of waste oil. Representatives of the waste oil processing industry are members of the Stakeholder Group relating to the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), including the provisions in article 4 on the waste hierarchy and article 21 on waste...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Oils: Waste Disposal (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: DEFRA has not commissioned specific studies on the life cycle assessment of the environmental impact arising from the export of waste oils for re-refining. However, we are aware of the following life cycle studies: GEIR (Groupement Europeen de l'Industrie de la Regeneration, part of the Independent Union of the European Lubricants industry) report: Ecological and energetic assessment of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Management: Business (8 April 2010)

Dan Norris: DEFRA constantly assesses the financial markets to ensure that waste private finance initiative (PFI) projects are financially viable. This includes meetings with banks, contractors and waste companies as well as individual waste local authorities. In November 2009, Officials from DEFRA's Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) hosted a meeting attended by representatives from some 20...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Croydon (7 April 2010)

Dan Norris: Due to the broad nature of the question and the wide range of DEFRA policies implemented in Croydon, Central, it is not possible to provide a detailed answer in the form requested. Croydon, Central is obliged through statute to comply with central Government legislation. DEFRA's policy responsibilities are summarised in its departmental strategic objectives (DSOs) that have been agreed with...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Buildings (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has not built nor incurred any expenditure on smoking shelters for staff in the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Buildings (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its agencies have spent the amounts shown as follows on rooms for staff leisure: Foss House: Kings Pool, York-£171,800 (gym and pool room): 2008-09 Nobel House: London-£65,000 (gym): 2008-09. These are the only amounts spent in the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Buildings (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: DEFRA does not provide directly subsidised gym facilities for its staff. There are several such facilities on the core-DEFRA estate, but all these are managed by volunteer staff committees and paid for through membership subscriptions.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Buildings (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: Identifying expenditure on interior design in relation to office refurbishment in each of the last five years incurred by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when undertaking office refurbishment could be done only at disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental ICT (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The Department has not cancelled any IT projects since April 2009. The Rural Payments Agency cancelled the Microsoft Project Server project at a cost to the public purse of £183,140.76, and postponed the Customer Communications Improvement programme at a cost of £60,843.48. The Food and Environment Research Agency cancelled an IT project to extend the Laboratory Information...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Legislation (6 April 2010)

Dan Norris: The information requested is tabled as follows: Number SIs introduced SIs revoked 2000 92 39 2001 143 82 2002 115 60 2003 105 45 2004 133 45 2005 139 32 2006 144 18 2007 165 21 2008 87 110 2009 96 57 2010 (1)36 (1)22 (1) As at March 2010.