Written Question
Thursday 12th June 2014
Asked by:
Graeme Morrice (Labour - Livingston)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what level of funding his Department provides to tackle the effects of climate change; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
Defra spent £8.3 million in 2013-14 under its core adapting to climate change programme. This included £4.1 million to the Met Office Hadley Centre for the provision of world-leading climate science, and £1.6 million to the Environment Agency's Climate Ready support service to help organisations across England adapt to a changing climate. Adaptation is mainstreamed across Government. Other departments and other Defra programmes also fund activities that build resilience to climate change.
Written Question
Thursday 1st May 2014
Asked by:
Graeme Morrice (Labour - Livingston)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has any plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Leicester South on Thursday, 03 April 2014: Official Report column 765w.
Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his Department is (a) undertaking or (b) plans to undertake a review of the check-off union subscription provision. [194039]
Dan Rogerson: DEFRA is currently reviewing the provision of check-off for trade union subscriptions.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"T9. I welcome the Government’s action plan for tackling wildlife crime and the renewal of funding for the national wildlife crime unit until 2016, even though it needs to be much more long term than that. Will the Minister explain his view on making wildlife crime offences recordable and what …..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Oct 2013
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"T3. Is the Secretary of State aware of the most recent piece of scientific research on the Cayman turtle farm? It supports the position of the World Society for the Protection of Animals that: “There is no humane way to farm sea turtles”. Will he, along with the Foreign and …..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Oct 2012
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"9. What recent assessment he has made of the potential risks of a badger cull...."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Oct 2012
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"Obviously, I am aware that there will be a major debate on this subject later today, but may I ask the Secretary of State why DEFRA got the number of badgers living in each pilot cull area so wrong? Why did he undertake a survey only last month, weeks before …..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 19 Jan 2012
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"What discussions has the Minister had with the devolved Administrations about the future of Forest Research?..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Nov 2011
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"T8. Business groups have warned that the Government’s decision to delay the establishment of marine conservation zones will impede investment in marine industries, including renewable energy and sustainable fishery projects. Does the Secretary of State agree?..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2011
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"9. What representations she has received from the scientific community on her plans to pilot the free shooting of badgers...."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2011
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"I thank the Minister for his answer, but why is he blindly following the free shooting option and excluding others, such as vaccination, regardless of the scientific advice, and why did he cancel five of the six vaccination trials entered into by the previous Labour Government?..."Graeme Morrice - View Speech
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