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Trade Effluent
Chris McCafferty:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many significant consents to discharge trade effluent to watercourses were held by industry in (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004; what percentage of these consents were monitored for compliance purposes and inspections made by the Environment Agency; what the level of
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compliance with these consents was; what enforcement actions were taken against sites that breached their consents; what percentage of these consents were reviewed; how many reviews led to a tightening of the discharge consent; and what percentage of consents included red list substances. [31923]
Mr. Morley: The table details the significant consents issued to industry by the Environment Agency for tradeeffluent discharges to watercourses and the corresponding information my hon. Friend requested.
Urban Gulls
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will estimate the number of urban gulls in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each sub-regional area; and if she will provide corresponding estimates for any earlier period for which estimates are available. [32020]
Jim Knight: The Seabird 2000 survey was conducted by Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in partnership with other organisations including English Nature and RSPB. The survey looked at breeding populations of seabirds between 1998 and 2002. A full report of the survey can be found at:
http://www.incc.gov.uk/pdf/Summary Britain Ireland seabird breeding numbers.pdf
The report includes a number of tables setting out seabird populations which provides figures for Operation Seafarer and Seabird Colony Register census in comparison to Seabird 2000 at administrative area and country level. Specific data for each region and sub regional area is not available.
It can be seen from the report that the number of roof nesting gulls in England were approximately;
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/PDF/S2000 14 heg tabs and figs web.pdf
Lesser Black—backed Gulls 44,200 pairs
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/PDF/S2000 13 Ibbg tabs and figs web.pdf
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Great Black-backed Gulls 1470 pairs
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/PDF/S2000 15 gbbg tabs and figs web.pdf
Warm Front Scheme
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many households in Tamworth constituency have received assistance under the Warm Front scheme in each year since its introduction. [32035]
Mr. Morley: Between the launch of the Warm Front Scheme in June 2000 and the end of March 2005, the number of households assisted in each year in Tamworth constituency are as follows:
| Period | Number assisted |
|---|---|
| 2000–01 | 309 |
| 2001–02 | 391 |
| 2002–03 | 303 |
| 2003–04 | 279 |
| 2004–05 | 414 |
| Total | 1,696 |
Wild Birds
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information she collects on numbers of wild birds in the United Kingdom; and if she will make a statement. [31336]
Jim Knight: DEFRA annually monitors the numbers of a whole range of birds, through the Breeding Bird Survey. This survey, conducted and funded jointly by the British Trust for Ornithology, the RSPB and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, assesses trends in the numbers of common species of birds across the country. A range of other surveys, funded by these organisations, assesses trends in scarcer species. Annual reports are produced for each of the surveys, but summary information derived from them is contained in the report The State of the UK's Birds 2004" 1 which was published in July 2005.
Major successes since 1970 include scarce breeders with mainly southern distributions, such as little ringed plovers, woodlarks and Dartford warblers, that may be benefiting from climate change; species such as the buzzard that may be experiencing less persecution than in the past; and species such as the woodpigeon, which may be benefiting from changes in agricultural cropping patterns.
Recent surveys have detected encouraging increases for some of our most vulnerable breeding species: corncrakes, bitterns and nightjars. One species, the hen harrier, showed encouraging increases in the north and west but worrying declines elsewhere in its range.
The all-species, farmland and woodland wild bird indicators for the UK have all shown a slight increase over the last year. However, the farmland bird indicator remains below 60 per cent. of its 1970 value.
2004 was the poorest breeding season on record for many of our seabirds, such as kittiwakes and guillemots, raising concerns about environmental changes in the seas surrounding the UK.
The report recognised encouraging progress towards meeting species' targets in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan where concerted conservation action has resulted in increases in numbers of bitterns, corncrakes, stone-curlews and cirl buntings—all species that were at serious risk of extinction as recently as the mid-1990s. While there is no reason for complacency, indications are that the dramatic rate of long-term decline in overall bird populations may have been halted.
1 Eaton M. A., Noble D. G., Cranswick P. A., Carter N., Wotton S., Ratcliffe N., Wilson A., Hilton G. M., and Gregory R D., 2004. The state of the UK's birds 2003. BTO, the RSPB and WWT, Sandy.
TREASURY
Deaths (Statistics)
Lembit Öpik: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people under the age of 18 years have been killed in accidents in each of the last five years; [32116]
(2) how many people under the age of 18 years have committed suicide during each of the last five years. [32117]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 30 November 2005:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent questions concerning how many people under the age of 18 years have (a) been killed in accidents and (b) committee suicide, during each of the last five years. I am replying in her absence. (32116, 32117)
The most recent available figures are for the calendar year 2004. The figures below show the number of deaths from (a) accidents and (b) intentional self harm among those aged 0 to 17 for the calendar years 2000 to 2004.
(4) Figures are for deaths occurring in each calendar year.
(5) The cause of death for accidents was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E800-E869 and E880-E928 for the year 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2004, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes V01-X59.
(6) The cause of death for suicide was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E950-E959for the year 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2004, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes X60-X84.
(7) The cause of death for injury of undetermined intent was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E980-E989 excluding E988.8 for the year 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2004, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes Y10-Y34 excluding Y33.9 where the coroner's verdict was pending. It is assumed likely that most of these deaths at ages 13 and over are cases where the harm is self-inflicted but there was insufficient evidence to prove that the deceased deliberately intended to kill themselves. As there were no intentional self harm deaths in children under the age of 13, data for injury of undetermined intent have not been included.
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Mr. Kemp: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many deaths in (a) Houghton and Washington, East, (b) Sunderland and (c) Tyne and Wear alcohol was the primary cause in each of the past five years. [32871]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 30 November 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking in how many deaths in (a) Houghton and Washington East, (b) Sunderland and (c) Tyne and Wear alcohol was the primary cause in each of the last five years. (32871)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the numbers of deaths among residents of the parliamentary constituency of Houghton and Washington East, metropolitan district of Sunderland and former metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 2000 to 2004.
(8) For the year 2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed as follows:
291—Alcoholic psychoses
303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol
For the years 2001–04 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were used:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
142.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
K70—Alcoholic liver disease
K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol
Notes:
1. Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
2. The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in:
Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly" 17, pp 5–14.
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