Sentences with phrase «rural affairs said»

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More than seven billion plastic bags were handed out by seven main retailers in 2014, but this figure dropped to just over half a billion in the first six months of this year after the 5p charge was introduced in October last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

The Greens said it would refer the allegations to a Senate inquiry on the country's working visa system, and Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs Joel Fitzgibbon tweeted «retailers will need to do better than cite unenforced & unaudited codes & agreements».

The industry supports the official recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee» said the CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

Speaking at the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania yesterday, Joost Korte, Deputy Director General for Agriculture and Rural Affairs in Brussels, said «measures are being prepared to address that issue.»

But the House of Commons» Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee chair Neil Parish said: «Councils in the dozens of other English cities currently exceeding EU pollution limits must also be given the option of using such powers if their communities support action.»

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) refused to confirm what would be in the Queen's speech - which sets out legislation for the coming year - but said ministers were looking at «all the options» on climate change.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

In her first session at the despatch box 48 hours after joining the Cabinet, Truss said she had decided to progress with the government's two culling pilots this autumn after speaking with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs» (Defra) scientific adviser.

The Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael has said the Government would neither «oppose nor support» an application from the Countryside Alliance to delay the implementation of the ban on fox hunting.

Baroness Parminter, Deputy Leader in the Lords & Spokesperson for Environment and Rural Affairs, said: «We as a party support all those involved in responsible shooting, and I personally endorse this position.

Speaking after the Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Committee meeting, BASC NI director Tommy Mayne said: «BASC commends the Minister, the Committee and the department for their pragmatic approach to what some people might consider to be an emotive issue.

Commenting on Michael Gove's speech stating that Farm subsidies «must be earned», Welsh Lib Dem Rural Affairs Spokesperson Cllr William Powell said;

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the new proposal would ensure that the social cost caused by pollution was considered in all government decisions.

«With climate change gone from Hilary Benn's [environment, food and rural affairs secretary] in - tray, his department must spend more time banging heads together across Whitehall to really make thorough «rural proofing» of government policy a reality,» he said.

Rachael Maskell quit as shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary, telling the Guardian: «I said I would first of all serve my constituents and that is the most important thing for me.»

Cllr William Powell, a qualified teacher, school governor and the Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson for rural affairs, said:

«The media has certainly portrayed the University of East Anglia situation as a crisis,» said Bob Watson, a former IPCC chairman who is now the chief scientist for the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

On Friday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs declared East Anglia to be in drought and said large parts of Wales, the Midlands and southwest and southeast England were on the brink of drought.

Farmers in England and Wales, where TB is a particular problem, are keen to get on with the controversial cull, which the UK government's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) says the farming industry will fund.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Insaffairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InsAffairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones said more than half the responses during consultation on the ban were in favour.

â $ œLarge animal medicine has been hit especially hard by the shortage, â $ said Karter Neal, who serves as the supervising veterinarian for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona and is the stateâ $ ™ s Rural Affairs Task Force coordinator.

One report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) says that emissions have risen by 18 % between 1992 and 2004, while a report by the Stockholm Environment Institute says that greenhouse gas emissions are in fact 49 % higher than currently reported.