Subject | Evidence sessions in 2007-08
| Outcome |
Avian influenza and Notifiable Animal Diseases
| N/A [an informal "Observatory" has monitored developments in these areas]
| Briefings from Defra and from Sir Ian Anderson, author of the review of the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2007
|
Defra priorities | 2
| Evidence, November 2007 and April 2008
|
The UK Government's "Vision for the Common Agricultural Policy": Government response to the Committee's Fourth Report, Session 2006-07
| 0 | Comments on Government response
|
Climate change: the "citizen's agenda": Government response to the Committee's Eighth Report, Session 2006-07
| 0 | Comments on Government response
|
Badgers and Cattle TB: Final Report of the Independent Scientific Group
| 3 | Report, February 2008;
Comments on eventual Government response contained in Tenth Report
Further evidence session, November 2008, and Government response to Tenth Report awaiting publication.
|
Flooding
| 10 | Report, May 2008
Government response, July 2008
|
Climate change: the "citizen's agenda" and the Bali Summit
| 1 | Evidence, February 2008
|
Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966
| 2 | Report, May 2008
Government response, July 2008
|
Committee on Climate Change
| 1 | Evidence, March 2008
|
Implementation of the Nitrates Directive in England
| 1 | Report, June 2008
Government Response, October 2008
|
British Waterways: follow-up
| 2 | Report, July 2008;
Government response, October 2008
|
The potential of England's rural economy
| 4 | Report, October 2008
|
Draft Marine Bill: Coastal Access Provisions
| 4 | Report, July 2008;
Government response, September 2008
|
Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
| 0 | Inquiry discontinued
Special Report, October 2008
Inquiry reopened, November 2008
|
Defra science | 0
| Committee developing inquiry
|
Food security | 0[1]
| Committee developing inquiry
|
Waste Strategy for England 2007
| 4 | Report in preparation
|
English pig industry
| 2 | Report in preparation
|
Defra Annual Report 2008
| 1 | |
Biodiversity
| 0 | Informal briefing from Natural England
|