Environment Food and Rural Affairs

written question – answered on 21 December 2010.

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  • Forestry Commission: Land

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 7 December 2010, Official Report, column 146W, on Forestry Commission: land, what the name is of...

  • Agriculture

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance her Department has issued to the pig and poultry industry on exposure of the animal population to the (a) H5N1...

  • Animal Products: EC Law

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations she has received on simplification of the implementation of the European Animal By-Products...

  • Animal Products: Waste Disposal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what definition of a covered area is used in (a) the European Animal By-Products Regulation and (b) the implementing...

  • Animal Welfare

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent scientific advice she has received on the exposure of the animal population in the United Kingdom to the (a)...

  • Animal Welfare: Circuses

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will assess the effects on animal welfare of live animal performances in circuses; and what her policy is on live...

  • Badgers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the licensing and monitoring systems that would be required for...

  • Birds of Prey: Crime

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps have been taken to implement the recommendations of the Raptor Working Group Report on (a) enforcement of...

  • Camels: Bovine Tuberculosis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what treatments her Department permits to be carried out on camelids suspected of carrying tuberculosis; and if she will make...

  • Carbon Emissions: Business

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress she has made on the implementation of Section 85(1)(a) of the Climate Change Act 2008.

  • Dairy Farming

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions the Food and Farming Minister has had with ministerial colleagues in the Department for Communities...

  • Dairy Farming

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effect of intensive indoor milk production units...

  • Dairy Farming

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she has considered the establishment of minimum separation distances between large scale, intensive, indoor dairy...

  • Dangerous Dogs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she plans to bring forward proposals to repeal the provisions on breed-specific prohibitions contained in the...

  • Dangerous Dogs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many seizures of dogs under the terms of section 5 (1) of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 there were in (a) England and (b)...

  • Dangerous Dogs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what her policy is on the extension of the provisions of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 to private dwellings; (2) what...

  • Dangerous Dogs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many entries have been made on the Index of Exempted Dogs in each year since 1991; and in respect of which types of dog...

  • Departmental Overtime

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much her Department spent on overtime for staff working within her private office in each of the last five years.

  • Departmental Pay

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many staff employed by her Department were not paid at a rate equivalent to or above the London living wage in the latest...

  • Departmental Procurement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible...

  • Departmental Procurement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what (a) steps she is taking to encourage small businesses to bid for contracts let by her Department and (b) recent...

  • Departmental Procurement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had with voluntary and community groups on bidding for contracts let by her Department.

  • Departmental Public Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent estimate she has made of the effect of the increase in the standard rate of value added tax on her Department's...

  • Dogs:Tagging

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her policy is on compulsory microchipping of dogs.

  • Environment Protection: Business

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will bring forward proposals to extend the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 to cover (a) water utility and...

  • Insurance Premiums

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate she has made of the number of properties which have insurance cover which is attributable to the July 2008...

  • Landfill

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what support her Department provides to companies to develop schemes to reduce the use of landfill; and if she will make a...

  • Mackerel: Quotas

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department plans to take following the break down of negotiations with Iceland and the Faroe Islands on...

  • Oil: Imports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the potential effect on UK food distribution and food security of (a) a complete and...

  • Rural Payments Agency: Complaints

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many complaints her Department received in relation to the processing of claims by the Rural Payments Agency in (a)...

  • Sewage: Rivers (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information her Department holds on the amount of raw sewage pumped into the river network by water utility companies;...

  • Trees

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much Forestry Commission land in each local authority area has sweet chestnut under management for coppicing.

  • Water Power: Fisheries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will meet representatives of anglers' and fisheries charities to discuss the effect on fish populations of hydropower...

  • Whales: Conservation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had with other member nations of the Antarctic Treaty on the conduct of the Japanese whaling...

  • Wood

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department plans to adopt in the UK to assist in global efforts against illegal logging and deforestation.

  • Wood: Imports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what precautions are in place to reduce the risk of importation of harmful (a) insects and (b) diseases through the...

  • Slaughterhouses

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what (a) departmental circulars and (b) other documents her Department has published consequent on the provisions of...