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Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2007

SI 2007/2968. (Negative instrument). Together with an explanatory memorandum from the department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Coming into force 7 November 2007.

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

SI 2007/2968

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Framework agreement with Norway concerning cross-boundary petroleum co-operation (Oslo 2005) (previously Cm 6792).

Type

Treaties; Command papers

Date

31 August 2007

Reference

Cm 7206;Treaty 20 (2007)

House

House of Commons

Dairy Farming: Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the volume of milk production was in (a) Cornwall, (b) the South West and (c) England in each year for which figures are available.

Asked by

Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 July 2007

For answer on

11 July 2007

Answered on

18 July 2007

Precise estimates of milk production in these regions are not readily available. However, the following table provides estimates of the volume of milk produced in Cornwall, the South West and England for the years 1979 to 2006 calculated by applying the average UK milk yield to the number of dairy cows in each region.

Milk production (million litres)
	Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	South West region	England
1979	509	3,648	10,979
1980	519	3,698	10,970
1981	516	3,683	10,793
1982	557	3,904	11,396
1983	581	4,041	11,765
1984	555	3,813	11,043
1985	545	3,751	10,797
1986	563	3,827	10,983
1987	540	3,665	10,439
1988	524	3,584	10,184
1989	517	3,546	10,038
1990	531	3,630	10,290
1991	517	3,503	9,940
1992	517	3,461	9,800
1993	515	3,474	9,790
1994	531	3,598	10,054
1995	521	3,506	9,766
1996	526	3,515	9,889
1997	530	3,503	9,840
1998	508	3,356	9,484
1999	535	3,516	9,896
2000	513	3,332	9,418
2001	555	3,448	9,457
2002	536	3,424	9,495
2003	539	3,428	9,500
2004	520	3,267	9,055
2005	501	3,196	8,886
2006	503	3,157	8,775

Date

18 July 2007

Reference

149220; 463 c381-2W

House

House of Commons

Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) (England and Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

SI 2007/1943. (Negative instrument). Together with an explanatory memorandum from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Coming into force 1 August 2007.

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

10 July 2007

Reference

SI 2007/1943

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Waste Management: Newspapers and Magazines

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 4 June (WA 178), what account they have taken of the energy usage of the production of newspaper supplements, free newspapers and magazines and their collection for recycling and reconstitution; and

Asked by

Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2007

Reference

4319; 693 c63-4WA

House

House of Lords

Waste Management: Newspapers and Magazines

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 4 June (WA 178), whether they will open discussions with newspaper proprietors to introduce a charge for newspaper supplements in order to reduce the weight and volume of domestic refuse.

Asked by

Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2007

Reference

4320; 693 c63-4WA

House

House of Lords

Waste Management: Newport

asked Her Majesty's Government:On what date production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ceased at the Monsanto site in Newport, Wales; and on what date and from which sites all production of PCBs by any manufacturer ceased in the United Kingdom.

Asked by

Countess of Mar (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 May 2007

Reference

3220; 691 c204WA

House

House of Lords

Waste Management: WEEE Directive

asked Her Majesty's Government:What actions they have taken to encourage the design and production of electrical and electronic equipment which take into account and facilitate dismantling and recovery, as required by the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 April 2007

Reference

3286; 691 c169-70WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

asked Her Majesty's Government:What evidence they require from biofuels plants that qualify for enhanced capital allowances of significant carbon dioxide emission savings; and whether this evidence is publicly available.

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 March 2007

Reference

2605; 690 c273-4WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

asked Her Majesty's Government:How much tax has so far been written off under enhanced capital allowances for capital expenditure to fund plant and machinery in the biofuels industry.

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2007

Reference

2604; 690 c216WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the targets for United Kingdom market share of biofuels include all biofuels, irrespective of their different carbon emission mitigation benefits; and

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 March 2007

The Government support biofuels primarily because of the carbon savings they can offer. Biofuels also offer a number of ancillary benefits, including contributing to the diversity and security of the UK's transport fuel supplies and creating opportunities for the rural economy. The renewable transport fuel obligation (RTFO) will, in its early years, reward all biofuels equally, irrespective of the carbon savings they offer. It will, however, include a requirement on transport fuel suppliers to report on the environmental impacts and lifecycle carbon performance of any biofuels for which they wish to claim certificates. Over time, the Government are proposing to move to a system where the RTFO rewards different biofuels accordingto their environmental performance. The RTFO consultation document published on 22 February, and available in the House Libraries, seeks views on this issue. The biofuels that will be needed to meet the RTFO's targets are expected to come from a mixture of imports and domestic production. A number of UK biofuel production plants have come on stream since the announcement of the RTFO and several more are at the planning and development stage. Fuel duty incentives are a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Chancellor announced in Budget 2006 that, over time, the Government expect that the emphasis will move from the duty incentive towards the buy-out price as the principal support mechanism for biofuels in the future. Biobutanol has a number of potential advantages over bioethanol, including its ability to be used at up to a 10 per cent blend without any modification to existing vehicle technology. It also has a higher energy content than bioethanol, and has the potential to be more easily incorporated into the existing UK fuel supply infrastructure. The Government have not, however, carried out any detailed assessment of the extent to which biobutanol could reduce total emissions from road transport. Its total emissions benefits would, as with all biofuels, depend on the nature of the feedstock from which it was produced, as well as the energy used to cultivate, process, refine and transport it.

Date

21 March 2007

Reference

2645; 690 c197-8WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

What assessment they have made of the potential for emissions mitigation from transport from the use of blends of biobutanol in fuel; and

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 March 2007

Date

21 March 2007

Reference

2709; 690 c197-8WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

Whether they support the expansion of (a) domestic production of biofuels, and (b) importation of biofuels for use in the United Kingdom; and whether this is primarily for reasons of climate change mitigation or for reasons of energy security; and

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 March 2007

Date

21 March 2007

Reference

2650; 690 c197-8WA

House

House of Lords

Energy: Biofuels

Whether the introduction of the renewable transport fuels obligation will be accompanied by a reduction of fiscal incentives to produce biofuels.

Asked by

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 March 2007

Date

21 March 2007

Reference

2710; 690 c197-8WA

House

House of Lords

Cement

asked Her Majesty's Government:What assessment they have made of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted in the production of one tonne of cement; and what is the estimated total emission of carbon dioxide in the production of cement in the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Asked by

Lord Lewis of Newnham (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 March 2007

The UK calculates emissions from cement production as part of the greenhouse gas inventory. Emissions occur both from fuel combustion in the cement sector to provide heat for the calcination process, and from the calcination process itself. Emissions of CO2 in 2004 from fuel combustion in the cement industry amounted to 4,661.6 thousand tonnes and emissions associated with the cement production process were 5,455.7 thousand tonnes. This equates to a total emission of 10,117 thousand tonnes of CO2. Total clinker (the main raw material for making cement) production was 10,813 thousand tonnes—emissions of carbon dioxide from the UK cement industry in 2004 were therefore approximately 0.94 tonnes per tonne of clinker produced. Comparable emissions from fuel combustion are not available for the EC or for other European countries, since these are reported combined with other sectors as ““other industry””. Emissions associated with the calcination process, however, are available. The table below contains emissions of CO2 for a number of European countries, together with the amount of clinker produced, wherever this is available. The total report in the EC greenhouse gas inventory is also included in the table. The fourth column contains the ““IEF”” (implied emission factor)—this is the amount of CO2 emitted (thousand tonnes, kt) per thousand tonnes (kt) of clinker produced. This value is slightly lower for the UK than elsewhere.

	Clinker produced (kt)	CO2 emission (kt)	IEF (kt/kt)
Austria	3120	1754	0.56
Belgium	5201	2837	0.55
Czech Republic	3017	1661	0.55
Denmark	2861	1539	0.54
Estonia	698	369	0.53
EC	-	83946	-
Finland	1064	560	0.53
France	17157	9007	0.53
Germany	26281	13929	0.53
Greece	11755	6382	0.54
Ireland	4283	2290	0.53
Italy	33049	17846	0.54
Latvia	-	144	-
Lithuania	633	330	0.52
Luxembourg	-	445	-
Netherlands	804	446	0.55
Norway	1324	726	0.55
Poland	9621	5070	0.53
Portugal	6980	3538	0.51
Slovakia	2271	1195	0.53
Slovenia	898	486	0.54
Spain	30798	16631	0.54
Sweden	2385	1284	0.54
UK	10813	5456	0.50

Other greenhouse gases are not emitted as part of the production process, only as a result of the associated fuel combustion. Emissions of methane and N2O are small—0.54 thousand tonnes and 0.17 thousand tonnes in 2004, respectively.

Date

21 March 2007

Reference

2485; 690 c192-3WA

House

House of Lords

Milk (Cessation of Production) (Revocation) Scheme 2007

SI 2007/476. (Negative instrument). Together with an explanatory memorandum from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. Coming into force 6 April 2007.

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

26 February 2007

Reference

SI 2007/476

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Climate Change

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many categories of carbon emissions from food production and preparation they track; and what are their current estimates for the emissions of each category.

Asked by

Duke of Montrose (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

20 February 2007

The table below shows greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food production by category included in the UK GHG inventory for 2005, in million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This is the most recent year for which data are available. The data on emissions from fuel combustion include forestry operations and food production. Emissions from energy use by the food anddrink industry (for example, emissions from the processing of raw ingredients into packaged, canned or frozen products), and emissions from the manufacture of fertilizer, are included in the inventory with industrial emissions, but these are not separately identified. Emissions outside the UK from the production of food imported to the UK are excluded in the UK inventory. The emissions are reported in accordance with internationally agreed guidelines. Statistics for carbon dioxide (CO2) indicators for food transportation are available on the Defra website. The most recent estimates show that CO2 emissions from food transport, including emissions from overseas transport, increased by 4 per cent between 2002 and 2004. The impacts of food transport are highly dependent on the mode of transport used: GHG emissions per tonne carriedare much higher for air transport than for sea transport.

2005 emissions (million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)
Category	Carbon dioxide	Methane	Nitrous oxide	Total
Combustion of fossil fuels
Agriculture/Forestry/Fishing: Stationary combustion	0.48	0.04		0.51
Agriculture/Forestry/Fishing: Emissions from off-road machinery	3.96		0.48	4.44

Enteric fermentation and manure management
Cattle (enteric fermentation and manure management)		13.82		13.82
Sheep (enteric fermentation and manure management)		3.56		3.56
Other animals (enteric fermentation and manure management)		1.06		1.06
Manure management nitrous oxide emissions			1.32	1.32

Fertilizer use
Agricultural Soils			25.12	25.12

Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry
Cropland—changes in non-forest biomass due to yield improvements, and lowland drainage	0.55			0.55
Cropland and Grassland—application of lime	0.73			0.73
Land converted to cropland or grassland—changes to soil carbon and biomass stocks due to change of land use, and emissions from biomass burning from forest conversion	5.68			5.68

Total				56.80

Date

20 February 2007

Reference

689 c220-2WA; 1840

House

House of Lords

Afghanistan: Opium

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the reply by the Lord President (Baroness Amos) on 29 January (Official Report, col. 10), on what basis they estimate that the costs of producing morphine in Afghanistan would be eight times higher than comparable costs in Australia.

Asked by

Lord Hylton (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 February 2007

Reference

1749; 689 c147WA

House

House of Lords

Gas Production

While such exploration is important, does my right hon. Friend agree that an economy built solely on the success or failure of fossil fuels is likely to result in an overall reduction in spending and economic activity?

Asked by

Gordon Banks (Labour)

Answering body

Scotland Office

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

23 January 2007

Reference

455 c1272

House

House of Commons

Gas Production

I am certainly happy to reiterate the hon. Gentleman’s points to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The hon. Gentleman is right to acknowledge the significant potential west of Shetland. It represents about 17 per cent. of the UK’s remaining oil and gas reserves, and presents a considerable challenge, on which the Government are working with industry.

Answered by

Douglas Alexander (Labour)

Answering body

Scotland Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

23 January 2007

Reference

455 c1271-2

House

House of Commons

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