To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what regulatory impact assessment has been carried out to establish the likely costs to (a) water companies, (b) other companies, (c) local authorities and (d) the Environment Agency arising from the implementation of the EU Shellfish Directive. -...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what regulatory impact assessment has been carried out to establish the likely costs to (a) water companies, (b) other companies, (c) local authorities and (d) the Environment Agency arising from the implementation of the EU Shellfish Directive. -...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what EU competence exists over (a) fish, (b) shellfish, (c) other products of the sea, (d) related quotas and (e) regulation in the (i) six and (ii) 12 mile limits.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what EU competence exists over (a) fish, (b) shellfish, (c) other products of the sea, (d) related quotas and (e) regulation in the (i) six and (ii) 12 mile limits.

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the shellfish industry in Devon.

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the shellfish industry in Devon.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the EU countries which (a) have classified shellfish waste as animal waste for the purposes of the Animal By-Products Regulation and (b) have obtained derogations exempting shellfish or fish producers in remote areas from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the EU countries which (a) have classified shellfish waste as animal waste for the purposes of the Animal By-Products Regulation and (b) have obtained derogations exempting shellfish or fish producers in remote areas from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what obstacles are delaying the introduction of a shellfish licensing scheme; and if she will make a statement. - Ref to 402 c69-70WS, 3 April 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what obstacles are delaying the introduction of a shellfish licensing scheme; and if she will make a statement. - Ref to 402 c69-70WS, 3 April 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to introduce a statutory instrument to ban the landing of buried lobsters; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to introduce a statutory instrument to ban the landing of buried lobsters; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many UK vessels are involved in scallop fishing; how many people work in scallop fishing in the UK; how many people are employed in the scallop processing industry in the UK; and what estimate she has made...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many UK vessels are involved in scallop fishing; how many people work in scallop fishing in the UK; how many people are employed in the scallop processing industry in the UK; and what estimate she has made...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer to the honourable Member for Argyll and Bute at European Standing Committee A on 23rd April, column 7, what steps she is taking to persuade the European Commission that banning trawling for nephrops will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer to the honourable Member for Argyll and Bute at European Standing Committee A on 23rd April, column 7, what steps she is taking to persuade the European Commission that banning trawling for nephrops will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, to the honourable Member for Argyll and Bute at European Standing Committee A on 23rd April, Official Report, column 7, if she will place in the Library (a) her Department's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, to the honourable Member for Argyll and Bute at European Standing Committee A on 23rd April, Official Report, column 7, if she will place in the Library (a) her Department's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on progress relating to the Shellfish Licensing System. - (Holding answer 27 June 2002).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on progress relating to the Shellfish Licensing System. - (Holding answer 27 June 2002).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the proposed European road map for the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy in respect of (a) in-shore fishermen, (b) the future management of shellfish, (c) the management of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the proposed European road map for the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy in respect of (a) in-shore fishermen, (b) the future management of shellfish, (c) the management of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to introduce shellfish licensing.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to introduce shellfish licensing.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in what circumstances compensation is available to workers in the shellfish industry if they are unable to pursue their livelihoods. - This Department does not operate any schemes of compensation for workers in the shellfish industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in what circumstances compensation is available to workers in the shellfish industry if they are unable to pursue their livelihoods. - This Department does not operate any schemes of compensation for workers in the shellfish industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the economic and employment consequences of the outbreaks of atypical diarrhetic shell fish poisoning in (a) the Thames Estuary, (b) the Wash, (c) Whitstable, (d) the Menai Straits and Anglesey, (e)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the economic and employment consequences of the outbreaks of atypical diarrhetic shell fish poisoning in (a) the Thames Estuary, (b) the Wash, (c) Whitstable, (d) the Menai Straits and Anglesey, (e)...