Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK contributes financially to the United Nations Environment Programme.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
Defra contributes £3.3 million on an annual basis to the operation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Defra also pays mandatory subscriptions to a range of UN conventions that the UK is signed up to relating to specific environmental issues that UNEP oversees including climate change, biological diversity and ecosystem management, international wildlife trade, organic pollutants, chemicals and waste.
Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 12 December 2016, in response to Q311, who in her Department is responsible for assessing whether grant applications for Horizon 2020 funding are (a) value for money and (b) in line with Government objectives.
Answered by George Eustice
I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my Rt Hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 20 December 2016 to PQ UIN 57694.
Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Environment Agency on the implications for its remit of the draft Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Answered by George Eustice
The Department for International Trade is the lead department on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and has established a process for regular cross-Whitehall engagement with relevant parts of Government, including Defra, to ensure matters arising from the TTIP discussions have been considered appropriately.
Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has consulted the Office of Water Services on the implications for its remit of the draft Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Answered by George Eustice
The Department for International Trade is the lead department on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and has established a process for regular cross-Whitehall engagement with relevant parts of Government, including Defra, to ensure matters arising from the TTIP discussions have been considered appropriately.