written question – answered on 21 December 2010.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her policy is on compulsory microchipping of dogs.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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;...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...