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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.


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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:

and

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

website at:

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:


26 Feb 2009 : Column 912W
Participant Domestic miles Short-haul miles Long-haul miles Total miles

DFID

2,442,620

3,925,809

42,143,843

48,512,272

MOD

1,482,742

8,013,589

34,520,713

44,017,044

Red Arrows

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

HMRC

13,803,977

1,885,521

2,435,769

18,125,267

VOA

67,078

6,180

32,297

105,554

BERR

1,850,032

2,798,771

11,157,261

15,806,064

HO

3,096,510

1,616,014

3,956,040

8,668,564

IPS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

CRB

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

PS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

FSS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

DWP

7,825,984

650,331

867,756

9,344,071

HMT

1,568,881

249,645

916,195

2,734,720

DEFRA

3,612,104

2,486,524

5,204,594

11,303,222

CEFAS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

DCMS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

DH

413,688

576,208

1,456,328

2,446,224

CO

183,400

7,400,286

2,466,762

10,050,448

No.10

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

DfT

693,997

821,311

1,939,471

3,454,778

RH

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

GCDA

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

DCLG

98,617

297,057

195,831

591,505

DfES

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

LOD

63,425

395,429

1,053,994

1,512,848

CPS (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

SFO (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

RCPO (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

AGO (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

HMCPSI (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

Tsol (LOD)

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

NIO

1,992,239

60,536

160,637

2,213,412

MOJ

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TLR

13,842

25,650

99,170

138,663

TTBC

27,958

49,171

222,404

299,532

ECGD

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

Parl HC

1,049,576

1,072,394

2,674,252

4,796,222

BAPG

TBC

TBC

121,271

121,271

Parl HL

177,949

249,940

419,955

847,844

TRS

9,180

0

0

9,180

GLA

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

MPS

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TfL

54,569

690,967

1,458,757

2,204,293

LDA

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

SDC

TBC

TBC

TBC

TBC

Note:
As the deadline for returns is 30 April 2009, the abbreviation TBC is used to signify where finalised returns are yet to be confirmed/supplied.

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