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Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Heathrow Airport: Air Pollution ( 9 Jan 2017)

Therese Coffey: The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues on a range of issues, including on air quality. Our air quality plans have always followed the best available evidence. We are currently working on the next steps needed to revise the national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide. We will set out further measures in 2017.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Waste Disposal ( 9 Jan 2017)

Therese Coffey: The Waste and Resources Action Programme has published guidance on household food waste collections, which includes advice on the costs and associated benefits of introducing separate food waste collections in England. This guidance is available at: http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/household-food-waste-collecti ons-guide. I have not asked the Chief Scientific Adviser to provide additional...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal ( 9 Jan 2017)

Therese Coffey: Defra has not set specific metrics for this industry-led voluntary initiative to improve the quantity and quality of household recycling. The Waste and Resources Action Programme and other members of the industry advisory group for consistency have set out a number of actions and objectives to achieve the vision set out in the Framework and Defra officials will work with them to monitor...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (23 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: The Environment Agency has spent all of the £7.65 million allocated for use in 2016/17. The majority of this funding has been used to purchase around 20 miles of temporary flood barrier, which increases the Environment Agency’s overall holding to around 25 miles. The Environment Agency has also doubled their stock of sandbags from 250,000 to 500,000 and purchased two additional Incident...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bottles: Recycling (22 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Defra analysed the costs and benefits of implementing a deposit return system (DRS) for single-use drink containers as part of the 2011 Review of Waste Policy in England. We also sought views in the 2012 consultation on higher packaging recycling targets. This work showed that introducing a DRS may increase recycling and reduce litter but might impose additional costs on businesses,...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Members: Correspondence (22 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: I replied to the hon. Member for Washington and Sunderland on 20 December 2016.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (22 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Good progress is being made on the implementation of the National Flood Resilience Review recommendations. All infrastructure companies have completed their initial assessments of their vulnerable sites for suitability for temporary flood defences and as a result companies are investing heavily in resilience measures to ensure continuity of supply this winter. This includes putting in place...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Floods (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: The Government is investing £2.5 billion over six years on improving flood defences (up until 2021). This is a real terms increase in capital investment – up from £1.7 billion in the last Parliament and £1.5 billion between 2005 and 2010. We are exceeding our manifesto commitment by building 1,500 new flood defence schemes that will better protect over 300,000 more homes. The capital...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Lead Local Flood Authorities report their progress with local flood risk management strategies annually. As of 31 March 2016 out of the 152 Lead Local Flood Authorities in England,114 had completed and published their strategy and 26 had completed or were undergoing public consultation on their draft. Of the remaining 12, we have been monitoring their progress and encouraging to complete as...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control: Databases (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: ResilienceDirect is the UKs secure and free to use web-based platform for the Resilience Community. ResilienceDirect enables the sharing of real time information across all category 1 and 2 emergency responders, government departments and other key agencies, including the Devolved Administrations, for emergency planning, response and recovery. The database holds a total of 164,049 Environment...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: The Department did not set a target for the amount of partnership funding for flood protection to be raised between 2011 and March 2015, and no annual target has been set for the period from April 2015. The target for the whole six year period from April 2015 to March 2021 is to raise the equivalent of at least an additional 15 per cent of the total capital allocation from partnership funding...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: The Environment Agency receives spending information from public authorities on both their own flood and coastal risk management projects and the Environment Agency projects to which they contribute. This information is grouped into “public contributions” for each scheme, enabling the Environment Agency to have an overview of partnership funding available for flood and coastal risk...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control (21 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: All government resource spending allocated to flood risk management in each of the last six years and for the current financial year can be found in the Central Government Funding for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management in England publication, which is available on the gov.uk website or via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Packaging: Waste (20 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: An error has been identified in the written answer given on 12 December 2016. The correct answer should have been: The proportion of packaging waste that was recycled or recovered in each year since 2010 was: % 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 % recycled 60.7 60.8 61.4 64.6 59.2 59.1 % recovered 67.3 67.1 69.1 72.7 64.1 65.1 The proportion of packaging...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Waste (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: In the last 18 months Defra has received a significant amount of correspondence on issues related to unsold food in supermarkets. Less than 3% of all UK post-farm gate food wasted in the supply chain is from supermarkets, so we need the whole chain to work together. The Government has instigated a variety of actions to increase surplus food redistribution including development of a...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Biodiversity: British Overseas Territories (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Funding for biodiversity is a key priority for agri-environment schemes under our Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). The Government has guaranteed funding for new RDPE projects, including agri-environment ones, agreed before we leave the EU, provided they are good value for money and are in line with domestic strategic priorities. Funding is also guaranteed for EU LIFE projects...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Packaging: Recycling (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Full validated data for 2016 will be available on 31 March next year. The estimated figures for 2019 should read as set out in the table below: % 2019 % recycled 58-62 % recovered 63-67

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Control: Lancaster (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Holding answer received on 16 December 2016 In Lancashire, a total of £91.9 million has been allocated to flood and coastal risk management schemes in the Government’s six year capital investment programme between 2016 and 2021.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Wind Power: Birds (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: Defra does not hold information in relation to the estimated number of birds killed annually by the operation of wind turbines in the UK.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ivory: Trade (19 Dec 2016)

Therese Coffey: We will consult on our proposal to ban sales of ivory products that are less than 70 years old as of March 2017, early next year. As part of this, we plan to seek evidence on options and impacts of taking further action. We will also consider further whether additional measures are necessary to ensure a robust enforcement regime to accompany any new rules.


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