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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cetaceans have been reported stranded during the 2004-05 season of the pair trawl sea bass fishery.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 April 2005

Reference

432 c1661-2W;432 c1657W; 219865

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dead harbour porpoises have been stranded on the coasts of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset in each of the past five years; and what the cause of death was in each case.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 March 2005

For answer on

5 April 2005

Answered on

5 April 2005

Ms Atherton: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many dead harbour porpoises have been stranded on the coasts of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset in each of the past five years; and what the cause of these deaths was. [222863] Mr. Bradshaw: From 1 January 2000 until 17 March 2005 a total of 352 harbour porpoises were stranded on the coasts of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. Table 1 gives a breakdown for each county. The number of carcases reported is always higher than the number which are suitable for or actually go to post mortem. I have provided a breakdown for each county for each year, and the causes of death where post mortems were carried out can be found in tables 2 to 4. Strandings data is obtained under the Defra-funded Cetacean and Turtle Strandings Scheme, carried out by the Natural History Museum in partnership with the Institute of Zoology and Scottish Agricultural College. Table 1: Total number of stranded harbour porpoise for 2000-- up to 17 March 2005 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Cornwall 20 25 68 40 114 13 Devon 8 13 5 11 21 9 Dorset 2 2 1 1 0 0 Total 30 40 74 52 135 22 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 2: Results of post mortems for harbour porpoise stranded in Cornwall _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cause of death 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Bycatch 3 3 12 3 26 1 Dystocia or stillborn 0 0 0 0 1 0 Gastropathy and/or 1 0 0 0 0 0 enteropathy Live stranding 0 1 0 0 0 0 Not established 0 2 4 3 2 1 Others 0 0 0 1 0 0 Physical trauma 0 2 0 2 0 1 Physical trauma 0 1 0 0 1 0 (Bottlenose dolphin kills) Pneumonia, parasitic 0 2 2 1 0 1 Pneumonia, parasitic and 0 1 0 0 0 0 bacterial Pneumonia, parasitic and 0 1 0 0 0 0 mycotic Starvation (neonate) 0 0 0 0 1 0 Total 4 13 18 10 31 4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 3: results of post mortems for harbour porpoise stranded in Devon _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cause of death 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Bycatch 1 3 3 1 0 1 Gastropathy and/or 0 0 0 0 1 0 enteropathy Live stranding 0 0 0 0 1 0 Not established 1 0 0 0 0 0 Physical trauma 0 2 0 0 0 0 Physical trauma 0 0 0 0 2 0 (Bottlenose dolphin kills) Pneumonia, parasitic 1 2 0 0 0 0 Pneumonia, parasitic and 1 0 0 0 0 0 bacterial Total 4 7 3 1 4 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 4: Results of post mortems for harbour porpoise stranded in Dorset _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cause of death 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Bycatch 0 1 1 0 0 0 Physical trauma 1 0 0 0 0 0 Physical trauma 0 1 0 0 0 0 (Bottlenose dolphin kills) Total 1 2 1 0 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

432 c1358W;432 c1354W; 222863

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the North Kerrier Home Zone project to be completed.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

432 c815W; 222657

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many UK fishing vessels are expected to start the deployment of pingers to prevent porpoise deaths in set net fisheries in the North Sea in June; and if she will bring forward the mandatory deployment of pingers...

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2005

Reference

432 c640W; 222860

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make the reduction of cetacean deaths in European fisheries a priority for the UK's Presidency of the European Union.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2005

Reference

432 c640W; 222859

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department is spending in 2004-05 on deployment trials to test the practicality and durability of various pinger models in gill net and tangle net fisheries off southwest England how much was spent in each of...

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2005

Reference

432 c640-1W;432 c640W; 222888

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total fishing effort in km/hours using gill net and tangle net gear in the English Channel and Celtic Sea, ICES areas VIId, e, f, g, h and j was in (a) the 12 metre and over...

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 March 2005

Reference

432 c540W; 222861

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many UK fishing vessels fish with (a) gill net and (b) tangle net; and what length of each type of net is deployed.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 March 2005

Reference

432 c541W; 222862

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will break down by district council the allocation of neighbourhood renewal funds in West Cornwall.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 March 2005

Reference

432 c580W; 222837

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of Kerrier District Council's management of the funds for the North Close Home Zone project.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 March 2005

Reference

432 c465W; 222659

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on the North Close Home Zone project, broken down by main budget heading.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 March 2005

Reference

432 c464-5W; 222658

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultation was conducted by Kerrier District Council regarding the North Close Home Zone project; how much the consultation cost; and what conclusions were published.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 March 2005

Reference

432 c464W; 222656

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to monitor the pair trawl sea bass fishery in the south west; what recent reports she has received from observers in the south-west approaches monitoring the pair trawl sea bass fishery.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2005

Reference

431 c1930W;431 c1922W; 219807;219866

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent evidence she has found of pair trawlers fishing in the offshore sea bass fishery.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2005

Reference

431 c1930W;431 c1922W; 203879

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the European Commission regarding the pair trawl sea bass fishery.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2005

Reference

431 c1930-1W;431 c1922-3W; 219867

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recommendations she has made to local authorities regarding parental involvement in children's centres.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

31 January 2005

Reference

210128; 430 c659W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will discuss with mobile telephone operators the potential for using mobile phone masts to disseminate warnings of severe weather or other disasters that require localised warning messages.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 January 2005

Reference

209140; 430 c339-40W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many representatives serving on housing association and trust boards have had benefits cut as a result of such service in the last 12 months. - Disproportionate cost.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 January 2005

Reference

209139; 429 c1063W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will grant to board members of housing associations and trusts a state benefit waiver having the effect of disregarding renumeration they receive as a result of their service on a housing assocation board. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 January 2005

Reference

209138; 429 c1063W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she has received from the scientific community regarding the cessation of the compilation of Dobson Photospectrerra data from Camborne; what consultation she undertook before stopping research into ozone depletion at Camborne Meteorological Office; for how many...

Asked by

Candy Atherton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 January 2005

For answer on

18 January 2005

Answered on

18 January 2005

Ms Atherton: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what advice she has received from the scientific community regarding the cessation of the compilation of Dobson Photospectrerra data from Camborne; [207984] (2) what consultation she undertook before stopping research into ozone depletion at Camborne Meteorological Office; [207985] (3) for how many years the UK Government has collected data using the Dobson Spectrerra; [207986] (4) what analysis has been done of the data collected by the Dobson Photospectrerra; and if she will make a statement; [208092] (5) what representations she has received about the discontinuance of the collection at Camborne of data concerning ozone levels; [208100] (6) what steps she is taking to collect data in the south- west of England about ozone depletion. [208101] Mr. Morley: The Government are satisfied that the current arrangements for collecting ozone data are more cost-effective than those applying previously, and meet scientific and public information needs. The Met Office, for the UK Government, has collected Dobson Photospectrometer data since 1957. Measurements at Camborne were taken between 1957 and 1967 and then between 1989 and 2003. In the intervening period, measurements were taken at Bracknell, near Reading. There have been continuous measurements at Lerwick since 1957. Ozone measurements are also available from satellites and give complete coverage for the UK, although a few local measurements in an area the size of the UK are needed to calibrate the satellite data and to provide long-term data for analysing trends. At the renewal of the monitoring contracts in 2003, bidders were asked to propose a rationalisation of both the ozone and ultra-violet radiation (UV) monitoring networks. Following an analysis of network requirements, provided by Imperial College, it was decided to move measurements of ozone from Camborne to Reading, for the following reasons: There was a long record of UV measurements at Reading and co-location of the ozone and UV monitoring sites in the south was deemed to be useful. Ozone measurements had been made at Bracknell, near Reading, previously. Ozone measurements were also made in Valentia, Ireland, and that would be sufficient information, together with Reading, to provide cover for south west England. A separate formal consultation was not undertaken but was not considered necessary as the open tender process, which included key players in ozone monitoring, sought guidance on the monitoring requirement. The Met Office expressed the view to Defra that the measurements at Camborne should have been continued; but Defra, in reviewing all of the advice it had received, concluded that on balance relocation to Reading was the best option. The daily ozone data are analysed on a weekly basis, and the results, including those covering the south-west, are placed on a publicly accessible website (http:// www.airquality.co.uk/archive/ozone/). The record at Lerwick over the last 30 years shows a decreasing trend in overall ozone levels. However, there is some indication of ozone recovery in the last 10 years at both Lerwick and Camborne. If any short-term low or high ozone events occur, further analysis is carried out to ascertain the causes. Records are sent to international data centres where they are made available for studies to identify global ozone trends.

Date

18 January 2005

Reference

429 c845-6W;429 c849-50W; 207984;207985;207986;208092;208100;208101

House

House of Commons

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