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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (14 May 2013)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department is funding into an antidote for ash dieback disease.

Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)

Mary Creagh: ...reform that could therefore bypass the Welsh Government. His Department conducted a pitifully short, four-week consultation. Let us remember that there was a full 12-week consultation on banning ash trees from Europe four months after Ministers were first told that ash dieback disease was here. We can see where this Secretary of State’s priorities lie—apart from the squirrels....

Points of Order (26 March 2013)

Huw Irranca-Davies: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I apologise for standing pre-emptively earlier on. I was so excited by the number of statements and was wondering where the missing one was. Ash dieback is the biggest tree disease to hit this country since Dutch elm, and it has spread to 427 sites around the UK. We welcome today’s publication of the Chalara management plan, but it is available only on...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: Plant Security (5 March 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Alban Maginness: 8. asked the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to outline the action her Department is taking to address plant security as a result of the experience from ash dieback disease. (AQO 3567/11-15)

Forestry: Independent Panel Report — Question for Short Debate (27 February 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Lord de Mauley: ...to do with the wider woodland and forestry sector, providing it with appropriate leadership and support so that we can grow our forests and protect what we have. Last year's outbreak of Chalara ash dieback, to which my noble friend Lord Framlingham referred, reminded us that our most urgent priority is to protect tree and plant health. I had the opportunity to see for myself the effects of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Trees (25 February 2013)

David Heath: ...launch in December 2010, 239,514 trees have been planted as part of the Big Tree Plant campaign. These trees were planted during 2010-11 and 2011-12. I can confirm that at least 400 of these are ash trees. There will be many more but applicants were not required to include detailed species breakdowns within their applications. The current application form requests greater detail on species...

Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat (12 February 2013)

Tom Harris: ...Crisis, what crisis?” At last, yesterday, the Secretary of State deigned to come to the House to berate Opposition Members for having the audacity to question him about this mess. As with the ash dieback issue, he has taken a very laid-back and relaxed approach to the issue—an attitude that, I have to tell him, is not shared by British consumers and their families. When sales...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: COBRA Civil Contingencies Committee (5 February 2013)

David Ford: ...no requests from COBRA to the Department of Justice.  I understand that there have been occasions in the past, for example in the case of swine flu, which involved the former Health Minister, and ash dieback, which has apparently featured some of my ministerial colleagues.  They have not involved the DOJ.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (5 February 2013)

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what research his Department is (a) undertaking and (b) aware of into finding an effective treatment for chalara fraxinea; (2) what assessment he has made of the efficacy of CuPC33 as a treatment to address (a) fungal and (b) bacterial diseases in trees; and what assessment he has made of its potential as a defence...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (4 February 2013)

Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the outcome has been of the work of the task force set-up to deal with tree disease and Chalara fraxinea; and what action has been taken by the task force to date.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (4 February 2013)

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions his Department has had with the Scottish Government on Chalara fraxinea.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Trees (31 January 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many tonnes of carbon dioxide are sequestered in ash trees in the UK; (2) what modelling his Department has carried out of the release of carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere as a result of ash dieback from Chalara fraxinea.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Native Tree Species (Disease) (24 January 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Caroline Nokes: ..., is the United Kingdom’s leading grower of trees, and one of the largest growers in Europe. Last year it supplied trees to the Olympic park. It is imperative for the control plan for ash dieback and other tree diseases to be robust and responsive, but what reassurance can the Secretary of State give the company that the Government will support a programme involving the breeding of...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: Agriculture and Rural Development (22 January 2013) See 5 other results from this debate

Michelle O'Neill: The first positive diagnosis that the organism causing ash dieback was a new disease was not made until 2011, when scientists looked at the disease and concluded that Chalara fraxinea, or ash dieback as it is commonly known, is a new virulent species.  The disease that was previously prevalent across Ireland, Britain and continental Europe had been in place since the 1800s.  So you...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (15 January 2013)

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will revise the projected strength of the Forest Carbon Sink in the UK's greenhouse gas inventory through to 2020 to reflect the impact of Chalara fraxinea.

Statute Law (Repeals) Bill [Lords]: Commission Work Programme 2013 (7 January 2013)

Gisela Stuart: I am genuinely seeking guidance. Which of the Committees of the House could have looked at ash dieback disease, for instance? People now say that, even if we had identified it, the EU could not have stopped the trade in infected trees early enough. Which Committee in our system could have tackled that, traced it back and said, “We need to do something”?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (20 December 2012)

Mary Creagh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when his Department informed the Horticultural Trade Association that ash dieback had been discovered in a Buckinghamshire nursery in February 2012.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (18 December 2012)

Tom Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many ash tree new planting sites are still to be surveyed in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, from tracking forward from tree nurseries and planting stock infected with Chalara fraxinea.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ash Dieback Disease (18 December 2012)

Tom Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his control strategy for Chalara fraxinea ash dieback will include removing infected trees from new planting sites and tree nurseries for the purposes of reducing threats to the wildlife of the wider countryside and reducing the rate of spread of ash dieback.

Green Waste (Contamination) (12 December 2012)

Bob Russell: ...fellow metal detecting enthusiasts, with the permission of the land owner, go out looking for buried treasures from the past they are more likely to find a wide variety of metal, cut, crushed and mashed among the rotting green waste. That is not so much a needle in a haystack, but rather the contents of a scrapyard strewn across fields. That led me to write to the president of the National...