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51 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 15 December (HL Deb, col 1981), (1) what is the detailed breakdown of the figure of £122 billion spent annually in the UK on the low carbon economy, and (2) for each el
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many press and public relations staff are employed by (a) the Forestry Commission, (b) the Water Services Regulation Authority, (c) the Animal and Plant Health Agency, (d) the Cent
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 16 December. Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved. There will next be legislative deliberations on the proposal for a Directive on the reduction of national emissi...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 16 December. Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved. T...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has served any French cheeses at receptions within that Department in the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposals to revise the costs capping scheme for environmental legal challenges on the UK's ability to meet the requirement in the EU Public Participation Di
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of his proposals to increase the cost cap for environmental legal challenges to £10,000 for individuals on the affordability of such challenges for such people.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of proposals to revise the costs capping scheme for environmental legal challenges on ease of access to redress through the courts.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions a special adviser in her Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on climate change of the recently published report by the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, entitled Executive Guide to Car
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost was of maintaining her Department's properties in (a) London and (b) nationally in 2014-15.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in her Department are in the redeployment pool.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to consult (a) parliamentarians and (b) the public on her Department's 25 year plan for a healthy natural economy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of her Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what training her Department has provided to staff on the family test; what other steps she has taken to raise awareness of the family test among staff of her Department; and if she wi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the inclusion of renewable energy in the Climate Change Levy on incentives for businesses to operate in a more environmentally friendly w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when she next plans to publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the amount in the Levy Control Framework increased when the Carbon Price Floor was frozen in the 2014 Budget.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what long-term plans the Government has to protect and maintain the English coast.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials in her Department are working on matters related to High Speed 2; and what the grades of those officials are.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made on establishing marine protection zones in British Overseas Territories; and whether each such zone will require the consent of that Territory's nationa
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to encourage investment in improvement of the environment as part of the Northern Powerhouse initiative.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer on improving the environment as part of the Northe
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) completing the network of Marine Conservation Zones and (b) creating a blue belt around British Overseas Territories.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to protect and conserve the UK's coastlines.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost of protection and conservation of UK coastlines has been over the last five years; and what the projected cost of such protection and conservation will be over the next f
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its arm's length bodies has spent on staff redundancies in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on what grounds the decision was taken to refuse Crown consent for provisions within the Environment Bill currently passing through the Welsh Assembly.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's forecast expenditure against Departmental Expenditure Limits is in 2015-16; and what her Department's forecast Annually Managed expenditure in 2015-16 was (a) at
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising (i) in 2014-15 prices and (ii)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of the family test on her Department's policies; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of her Department's policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps she has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments that have been carried out; and if
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to implement the family test.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which regulations her Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations her Department expects to implement as a result
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what average time her Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to support the creation of jobs through low carbon growth (a) within and (b) outside the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
I attended the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. After adopting the agenda, Ministers set out preliminary positions on the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System for the period 2021 – 2030 signalling the range of issues to be resolved...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I attended the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. After adopting the agenda, Ministers set out preliminary positions on the ref...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015
A Bill to amend the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (the "1990 Act") to establish additional factors, including environmental performance, health and safety and maintenance costs, as matters to be taken into account by the Secretary of State in considering whether to include, retain or release a building, or part thereof, in or from a list compiled or approved under the 1990 Act due to its architectural or historic interest; to make provision about excluding parts of buildings and structures within their curtilage from such lists; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the value of stationery that has been (a) lost and (b) stolen from her Department in each of the last five fiscal years; and what the cost was of replacin
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the change in projected Government expenditure for 2020 under the Levy Control Framework resulting from the decision to freeze the level of the carbon price floor in the 2014 Budget.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 16 September (HL2047) regarding the Committee on Toxicology's advice about toxic chemicals in food and the environment, when they intend to write to the members o
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in her Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015
I will attend the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. Following the adoption of the agenda the list of “A” items will be approved. During the legislative deliberations, there will be a policy debate on the proposal for a Directive reformin...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. Following the adoption of the agenda the list of “A” items will be approve...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to promote the use of credit unions in the work of her Department; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of her Department in each of the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much surplus land owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its agencies they estimate is suitable for building new houses on; how much has been released in each year since 2010–11; and how muc
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 October 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to prepare for the implementation of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation; which non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and agencies over