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http://www.detfra.gov.uk/farm/crops/industrial/energy/biomasstaskforce/pdf/btfreportgovresponse.pdf.
Biodiversity
Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department plans to take to maintain and increase biodiversity. [258777]
Huw Irranca-Davies: Our plans are set out in ‘Conserving Biodiversity—the UK Approach’. Working in partnership with others, and applying the ecosystem approach, our priorities are: protecting the best wildlife sites; promoting the recovery of priority species and habitats; embedding biodiversity in all sectors of policy and decision-making; engaging people and developing the evidence base. We have set targets to 2020 to increase the extent and quality of priority habitats and the range and populations of priority species.
Bluetongue Disease
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cases of human infection by the bluetongue virus have been reported in each of the last four years. [258360]
Jane Kennedy [holding answer 25 February 2009]: Bluetongue is a disease of animals affecting all ruminants, including sheep, cattle, deer, goats and camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, guanaco and vicuna). It does not affect humans.
BSE
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost to his Department of amending and updating the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations was. [257418]
Jane Kennedy: DEFRA does not keep records for amount of time spent on individual pieces of TSE work. The approximate cost of amending and updating the TSE regulations was £9,500.
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has spent on the consultation for the proposed changes to the system of testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. [257420]
Jane Kennedy: DEFRA does not keep records for the amount of time spent on individual pieces of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy work. The approximate cost of the consultation on increasing the age above which cattle must be tested was £5,800.
Carbon Emissions: Finance
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer of 16 July 2008, Official Report, column 429W, on Carbon Emissions: Finance, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent accounts of each of the three bodies. [252433]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: I have been asked to reply.
The Carbon Trust and The Energy Saving Trust are independent private companies limited by guarantee, and, as such, their accounts are a matter of public record and accessible at Companies House. Summaries are available on the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust's websites at:
Their accounts are not routinely placed in the Library of the House.
Envirowise is a service to business providing free and independent advice on how to make cost savings from improved resource efficiency. It is delivered under contract for DEFRA by AEA Technology which publishes its annual financial statement on its
Departmental Air Travel
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East of 21 October 2008, Official Report, columns 161-62W, on departmental air travel, when he plans to place in the Library a copy of the figures for the financial year 2007-08. [250190]
Huw Irranca-Davies: From information held centrally, 2007-08 air travel mileage figures available currently for all Government Carbon Offsetting Fund (GCOF) participants are as follows:
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