Asked by: Sarah Newton (Conservative - Truro and Falmouth)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what identifiable expenditure her Department has spent on Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in each year since 2007-08.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The Department does not hold consolidated information at this level of detail. The main source of funding for waste, environmental and other Defra-related local authority functions comes from the annual Revenue Support Grant. Since 2007-08, funding received by Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from Defra and its Arms Length Bodies has additionally included:
· waste PFI credits
· grants for water and sewerage infrastructure works on the Isles of Scilly
· flood and coastal defence capital grant in aid for flood and funding for resilience projects
· rural development programme funding
· catchment restoration funding for the South Cornwall River Improvement Project
· European Fisheries Fund money to support sustainable development of fishing communities
· grant aid for Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service to help crews to deal with local flood emergencies
· funding for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
· capital grants for catchment sensitive farming
· funding for the South West Bioheat Programme
Asked by: Sarah Newton (Conservative - Truro and Falmouth)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government will publish the National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England.
Answered by George Eustice
After engaging with interested parties over recent months, including holding a public consultation between 6 March and 2 May, we plan to publish the final National Pollinator Strategy this summer.