Environment Food and Rural Affairs

written question – answered on 30 November 2012.

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  • Agriculture: Subsidies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much matched funding from the Rural Development Fund his Department will pay to farmers in 2012-13.

  • Agriculture: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that young people who wish to enter the farming industry receive necessary support.

  • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Chilterns

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the Natural Capital Committee has advised the Government on the protection and enhancement of the Chilterns area of...

  • Ash Trees

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent estimate he has made of the number of ash trees in each local authority area.

  • Avian Pox

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to tackle the new strain of avian pox which reduces the survival of great tits especially juvenile birds.

  • Biodiversity

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what estimate his Department has made of the potential (a) value of and (b) environmental benefits arising out of his...

  • Bovine Tuberculosis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the oral contribution of the right hon. Member for North Shropshire of 23 October 2012, Official Report, column...

  • Fisheries: Africa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to persuade the EU to (a) take action to prevent illegal fishing by EU-flagged fishing trawlers off...

  • Flood Control: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding has been made available to local authorities to alleviate flood risk in the latest period for which figures...

  • Gangmasters

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many cases the Gangmasters Licensing Authority has brought to the Crown Prosecution Service for prosecution of...

  • Livestock: Exports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many livestock have died in the last year in the course of the live export trade.

  • Livestock: Exports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations he has received from animal rights groups on cruelty in the live exports trade.

  • Livestock: Exports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent investigation his Department has undertaken into the welfare of livestock in the course of the live export trade.

  • Livestock: Transport

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make it his policy to develop (a) higher standards for animal welfare and the transport of live animals than those...

  • Natural Capital Committee

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many times the Natural Capital Committee has reported to the Economic Affairs Committee since May 2012; and if he will...

  • Polar Bears

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what recent discussions (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with their EU counterparts on the proposal...

  • School Milk

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 November 2012, Official Report, column 685W, on school milk, what funding his Department has...

  • School Milk

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 November 2012, Official Report, column 685W, on school milk, how many portions of school milk...

  • Seas and Oceans: Scotland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions he has had on the (a) procedural and (b) resource reasons for the changes to the timetable for Scotland's...

  • White Fish: North Sea

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the Report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and the Centre for Environment,...