Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from tenants of the New Covent Garden market Authority on that market's redevelopment in the last five years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Defra Ministers have received various representations from New Covent Garden Market tenants in the past five years about the market redevelopment.
These have taken the form of formal correspondence and face to face meetings between the Covent Garden Tenants Association (CGTA) and the Minister, held at Defra and at New Covent Garden Market.
The representations have addressed a broad range of concerns about the plans for the redevelopment, its implementation and the role of the CGMA.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) positions and (b) pay were of the principal officers of the New Covent Garden Market Authority in the last five years; and what consultation process will take place before any pay increases are awarded.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The positions of the principal officers of the Covent Garden Market Authority are:
Mrs J Lloyd - Chief Executive Officer
Mr C Morton - Finance Director/Authority Secretary
Mr B Marlow - Operations Director
Mr C Townend - Project Director
Ms H Evans - Business development & Support Director
Their annual gross pay in the last 5 years is shown below:
| 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Mrs Lloyd | 198,316 | 172,110 | 227,249 | 191,715 | 222,569 |
Mr Morton | 154,979 | 147,978 | 164,772 | 151,199 | 166,977 |
Mr Marlow | 98,471 | 100,543 | 108,600 | 112,218 | 120,361 |
Mr Townend | n/a | n/a | 89,146 | 117,240 | 127,898 |
Ms Evans | n/a | 62,626 | 75,511 | 81,828 | 99,300 |
The remuneration policy for the principal officers is recommended and monitored by CGMA’s Remuneration Committee. A representative of Defra attends the Committee but is not a member of the Committee. The pay is set by the CGMA Board.
The position and pay of each of the principal officers is reported in CGMA’s Annual Report & Accounts, copies of which have been laid in the libraries of the Houses of Parliament.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse has been of policing the Dangerous Dogs Act each year since 2010.
Answered by George Eustice
The cost of policing the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 is a matter for each police force and is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs have been removed from their owners because those dogs were deemed dangerous in the last year.
Answered by George Eustice
Statistics on the number of dogs seized are not held centrally. Such information would be held by each police force.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions there have been for owning a dog banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in the last two years.
Answered by George Eustice
Defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court for offences under 1(3) of the Dangerous Act 1991(1), England & Wales, 2012-2013(2)(3) can be seen in the table below.
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(1) Possession, without exemption of a Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa or other designated fighting dog.
(2) The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from the administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services – Ministry of Justice PQC 830-14
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dangerous dogs have been destroyed in each month in the last two years.
Answered by George Eustice
Statistics on this are not held centrally but would be held by each police force.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dog attacks have been recorded in the last two years.
Answered by George Eustice
The Government do not keep records of dog attacks. However, the National Health Service records hospital admissions for dog bites. These showed that in England and Wales for the period February 2012 to January 2013 there were 6,372 admissions for dog bites and for the period February 2013 to January 2014 there were 6,743.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much organic waste went into landfill in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the policy of allowing organic waste to go to landfill.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
There are currently no plans to review the policy on organic waste entering landfill.
A combination of measures, such as the Waste and Resources Action Programme's Love Food Hate Waste campaign and the Government's Anaerobic Digestion Strategy, are in place to reduce the amount of organic material going to landfill and drive the waste that is produced into energy recovery or recycling. Considerable progress is being made on this, with the UK on course to meet the targets set out in the EU Landfill Directive for reducing the amount of biodegradable municipal waste entering landfill to 35% of 1995 levels by 2020.
Current evidence suggests that introducing bans or restrictions on sending organic waste to landfill would have an impact on businesses and local authorities in terms of compliance and monitoring, risking additional cost burdens on businesses.
The EU is reviewing a selection of waste policy legislation and further details about this will be known later in the year.