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Departmental Manpower
Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of employees in his Department are (a) women and (b) men; and what the average hourly pay of the (i) male and (ii) female employees in his Department was in the latest period for which figures are available. [287556]
Dan Norris [holding answer 20 July 2009]: The latest published data are as at 31 March 2008 and held within the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey statistics published by ONS, which can be accessed by using the following link.
Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will request the Waste and Resources Action Programme to produce best practice guidance on the operation of weekly collections of residual household waste. [288979]
Dan Norris:
WRAP has produced guidance on a wide variety of collection approaches and best practice for specific material streams. Its forward work programme is agreed annually with DEFRA. DEFRA has not asked WRAP to produce guidance specifically on best practice on weekly collections of household waste to date. We will continue to work with WRAP to ensure the guidance that it provides gives a range of advice that
is valuable to local authorities in assisting them in the decisions they have to make about approaches to collecting household waste at a local level.
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 9 October 2008, Official Report, column 724W, on domestic waste: waste management, whether other local authorities have reinstated weekly collections of residual household rubbish (a) in whole and (b) in part for summer months. [288987]
Dan Norris: DEFRA does not keep such records and the Waste and Resources Action Programme is not aware of any other local authorities that have reinstated weekly collections of residual waste either in whole or in part since 9 October 2008.
Fisheries: Prosecutions
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many prosecutions for offences involving harm or disturbance to marine wildlife and habitats have been brought in each of the last five years. [288208]
Huw Irranca-Davies: The following table from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) shows the number of prosecutions brought under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (for those sections for which data are available) from 2003 to 2007. The MOJ cannot separately identify from the Act those offences that specifically relate to offences involving harm or disturbance to marine wildlife and habitats.
Gatwick Airport: Noise
Sir John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to send to the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling a copy of the report sent to the European Commission in relation to noise mapping of the area around Gatwick airport which he undertook to enclose in his letter to the right hon. Member of 9 June 2009. [288557]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Two copies of the report sent to the European Commission in relation to noise mapping around Gatwick airport were sent to the right hon. Member on 16 July.
Genetically Modified Organisms: Hampshire
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his Department has authorised sites in the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire for use for experiments relating to genetically-modified foods. [288400]
Dan Norris: Between 1995 and 1998 we authorised experimental trials of GM crop plants to take place at various sites in Hampshire, as set out in the following table. No trials have been authorised in Hampshire since 1998.
| Town or village | Ordnance Survey grid reference | Crop type |
| (1) Best available information | ||
Glasgow
John Mason: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to visit Glasgow on official business during the summer Adjournment. [288916]
Dan Norris: My right hon. Friend has no current plans to do so.
Nature Conservation: Crime
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many reported incidents of wildlife crime there were in each of the last 10 years. [288211]
Huw Irranca-Davies: The National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) has recorded wildlife incidents across the UK since April 2007. Information on incidents that occurred prior to April 2007 is not held centrally but would be available from each individual police force across the UK.
The NWCU cannot currently provide details of how many of the following incidents have since been given a crime number by the reporting force. Therefore, these figures must be looked at only as incidents, not accurate figures of wildlife crime.
| Incidents reported to NWCU (April 2007 to December 2007) for whole of UK | |
| Category of incident | Total |
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