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Correspondence
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South will receive a reply to his letter of 14 April, concerning Mrs. Gillian McCubbin. [123068]
Dawn Primarolo: I wrote to my hon. Friend on 16 May.
Working Families Tax Credit
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the average cost per week, per recipient, of the Working Family Tax Credit, to the Inland Revenue in administration. [122575]
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Dawn Primarolo: During the six months to March 2000, the average Inland Revenue cost per recipient of administering the Working Families Tax Credit (and the remaining Family Credit awards) was £1.61 per week.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Calf Exports
Mr. Wigley: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the Government's policy on the export of calves. [119582]
Ms Quin: The UK is currently banned from exporting calves. Despite the progress that we have made with the lifting of the beef export ban, it is unlikely that the European Commission will propose the removal of the ban on live cattle exports in the near future. We are, however, working with the NFU to explore possibilities such as opportunities for high welfare standard veal exports as an alternative outlet for dairy calves.
Badger Culling
Mr. Baker: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department applied for a Home Office licence under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 for its recent badger culling experiment; and if he will make a statement. [120777]
Ms Quin: The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which regulates animal experiments, only applies where animals are killed in establishments specifically designated under the Act. It does not apply to the badger culling trial.
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Robertson: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will answer the Question tabled by the hon. Member for Tewkesbury on 17 January (Ref. 105197). [120923]
Ms Quin: I refer the hon. Member to my answer given to him on 18 May 2000, Official Report, column 269W.
GM Crops
Joan Ruddock: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will list, in relation to those who have submitted to him a request to be heard orally in respect of the proposed decision to add the genetically modified maize variety Chardon LL to the UK National List, each of the locations in the UK where such hearings have been requested, and the numbers requesting hearings at each such location; [121447]
- (2) if he will break down by region the representations and requests for oral hearings he has received on the proposed decision to add the genetically modified maize variety Chardon LL to the UK National List, indicating how many have (a) objected to and (b) supported the proposed decision. [121449]
Ms Quin: The information requested is set out in the table. To date, 227 individuals/organisations have submitted written representations, of which 63 have also requested to be heard by a person appointed by Ministers.
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A further four requests for a hearing have been received where no written representations have been made. Of the 227 written representations, four supported the proposed decision and the remainder objected. Of the 67 requests for a hearing, one supported the proposed decision and the remainder objected.
| Written representations | Requests to be heard | |
|---|---|---|
| England | ||
| Avon | 4 | 2 |
| Bedfordshire | 4 | 1 |
| Berkshire | 3 | -- |
| Buckinghamshire | 6 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire | 12 | 1 |
| Cheshire | 4 | 1 |
| Cornwall | 4 | 1 |
| Cumbria | 3 | -- |
| Derbyshire | 4 | 1 |
| Devon | 12 | 4 |
| Dorset | 2 | -- |
| Durham | 1 | 1 |
| Essex | 8 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire | 4 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 8 | -- |
| Herefordshire | 3 | 2 |
| Hertfordshire | 6 | 3 |
| Isle of Wight | 9 | -- |
| Kent | 5 | 3 |
| Lancashire | 16 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 4 | 1 |
| London | 23 | 8 |
| Middlesex | 3 | 1 |
| Norfolk | 2 | 1 |
| Northamptonshire | 2 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2 | 2 |
| Oxfordshire | 8 | 4 |
| Shropshire | 2 | 1 |
| Somerset | 6 | 2 |
| Staffordshire | 1 | -- |
| Suffolk | 4 | 1 |
| Surrey | 6 | 2 |
| Sussex | 2 | 2 |
| Wiltshire | 5 | 3 |
| Worcestershire | 1 | -- |
| Yorkshire | 17 | 1 |
| Total for England | 206 | 59 |
| Northern Ireland | ||
| Belfast | 1 | 1 |
| County Antrim | 1 | 1 |
| County Londonderry | 1 | -- |
| Total for Northern Ireland | 3 | 2 |
| Scotland | ||
| Borders | 2 | -- |
| Edinburgh and Lothians | 6 | 2 |
| Glasgow | 2 | 1 |
| Total for Scotland | 10 | 3 |
| Wales | ||
| Camarthenshire | 3 | 1 |
| South Glamorgan | 3 | 1 |
| North Wales | 1 | -- |
| Pembrokeshire | 1 | 1 |
| Total for Wales | 8 | 3 |
| Overall total | 227 | 67 |
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Action Plan for Farming (Budget)
Mr. Yeo: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list, for each UK-funded component of the Government's £203.5 million Action Plan for Farming, the departmental budget concerned. [121425]
Mr. Nick Brown [holding answer 9 May 2000]: The departmental budgets concerned with each UK-funded component of the Government's Action Plan for Farming are listed:
(20) MAFF--Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
IB--Intervention Board
SE--Scottish Executive
NAW--National Assembly for Wales
DARD--Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern Ireland)
FSA--Food Standards Agency
DTI--Department of Trade and Industry
DETR--Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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