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419518

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date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Hunting Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations her Department has received on amendments to the Hunting Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	10625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government has received representations from a wide range of interested parties both for and against any repeal or amendment to the Hunting Act 2004.</p><p>The measures proposed in the draft Hunting Act 2004 (Amendment) Order 2015 would not remove the ban on hunting. Given this we judged that more consultation would not have been likely to add to the information available to us.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 10578 10621 10624 question first answered 12/10/2015 11:54:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

419523

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Marine Conservation Zones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to announce her decision on the designation of the 23 marine conservation zones proposed in tranche 2.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	10553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on the marine conservation zones being designated in the second tranche will be announced by the end of January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/10/2015 11:50:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

419097

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many confirmed cases of bovine tuberculosis there were in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	10507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle within Great Britain are published monthly on GOV.UK</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/incidence-of-tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/incidence-of-tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain</a>.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/10/2015 11:45:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies

419098

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Ivory
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent illegal trade in ivory products.
tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
uin	10397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The UK has played a leading role in galvanising international action to combat the illegal wildlife trade, including the illegal trade in ivory. We hosted the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade in February 2014 and actively supported the Government of Botswana in its hosting of a follow-up Conference in Kasane in March 2015. The UK has also supported the Elephant Protection Initiative, of which nine African elephant range states are now members and which is designed to help them to secure and maintain healthy elephant populations.</p><p>The UK is committed to maintaining the current global ban on any new international trade in ivory, established under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). In addition, the UK does not permit trade in raw ivory tusks of any age and we are pressing for this approach to be taken across the whole of the European Union.</p><p>We have committed £13 million to support projects around the world to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. These projects seek to reduce demand, strengthen law enforcement and develop sustainable livelihoods for communities affected by illegal wildlife trade, principally through Defra’s Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund. A second round of the Challenge Fund was launched on 5 August.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 12/10/2015 11:41:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

418914

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Eastern Europe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the prevalence of rabies in puppies imported from Eastern Europe using false documents; and what steps she is taking to tackle the risks posed by such illegal importation.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Turner
uin	10347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>There has been no EU Member State to EU Member State transmission of rabies by any pet moved either legally or illegally since the EU pet travel scheme began in 2004. Over the last 20 years the level of rabies across the EU has decreased dramatically through targeted vaccination campaigns. This has resulted in many EU countries becoming free, or nearly free, of the disease.</p><p>We take the illegal importation of animals, including dogs and puppies, very seriously. We are aware that some unscrupulous individuals are importing pet animals, particularly puppies, under the cover of the EU pet travel scheme but with the intention of selling them on arrival in the UK. Our actions to tackle this illegal trade are focused on three areas which taken together are helping to address the supply of, and demand for, these puppies.</p><p>Firstly, responsibility for stopping the illegal movement of puppies begins in the country where they are born, where the authorities have a duty to ensure that the welfare of pets intended for sale is safeguarded and that EU pet passports are issued correctly. Where there is evidence that veterinarians in other Member States are prepared to falsify pet travel documentation, the UK Chief Veterinary Officer will raise this with officials in the country concerned as well as the European Commission. Intelligence collected in the UK by the Animal and Plant Health Agency, local authorities and animal welfare organisations has resulted in investigations in other EU countries and action has been taken where individuals have been found to be at fault.</p><p>Secondly, we will maintain effective border controls. The UK carries out more checks on pets at the border than most other EU Member States and stringent penalties are in place for breaking the rules.</p><p>Thirdly, the illegal trade is driven by demand for cheap pedigree puppies. We have published guidance on the steps pet owners can take to avoid buying an illegally imported pet: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog</a>. We are also working with the Pet Advertising Advisory Group, which has developed minimum standards for online pet advertisers that have led to the removal of over 130,000 problematic adverts in the last year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/10/2015 11:36:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1426 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Turner