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943833

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will assess the potential merits of ensuring that farm support payments are dependent on farmers improving performance against animal welfare standards after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	165543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>We have some of the highest welfare standards in the world and will maintain these once we leave the EU. We have recently consulted on our future agricultural policy, which included proposing using public money to fund public goods including animal welfare. We are considering the responses and will publish a report of the findings in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 13:10:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

943040

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Poultry: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to make an assessment of the potential merits of banning the use of electrical water bath systems for the stunning of poultry after the UK has left the European Union.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>European Council Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2009 requires all animals to be stunned before slaughter using the methods and parameters listed in Annex 1 to the Regulation, which includes electrical waterbath stunning. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 will convert the existing body of EU animal welfare law into UK law.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>According to a survey carried out by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2013, 71% of poultry in GB were stunned using a gas stunning system with 25% being electronically stunned. Defra and Welsh Government have asked the FSA to carry out an updated version of the survey for 2018. We hope to publish the results of the survey later in the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to reviewing the legislation on protecting animals at the time of killing before 2020 and considering the extent to which the objectives of the legislation have been met.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 13:07:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

943055

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Rabies
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 plans he has to reintroduce rabies blood testing with an extended wait period before entering the UK after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Defra takes the threat to public and animal health posed by animals entering the United Kingdom seriously and requires appropriate rabies vaccination for pet animals (cats, dogs and ferrets) entering the country, as well as other high risk species entering zoos or pets destined for the pet trade.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Pet travel between EU Member States and from some lower risk third countries requires a rabies vaccination followed by a 21 day waiting period. For third countries with higher rabies risk stricter rules apply involving a rabies titration test and waiting period. A quantitative risk assessment was carried out in 2011. They assessed the risk of a pet animal with rabies entering the UK under the EU pet travel rules as very low.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra has no plans to amend the rabies controls for pet animals, rabies susceptible species for zoos or the pet trade entering the United Kingdom but continues to monitor the disease situation and will undertake a further, formal risk assessment if the evidence indicates that one is warranted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 11:03:17 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

943058

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Pet Travel Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains his Department's policy to maintain the conditions of the EU Pet Travel Scheme after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Whilst we remain a member of the EU, we continue to be signed up to the requirements of the Pet Travel Scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>After we leave the EU we want pet owners to continue to be able to travel to and from the EU with the minimum of disruption whilst maintaining high biosecurity and welfare standards. The Government is negotiating our departure from the EU and Defra is working with the Department for Exiting the European Union to look at future arrangements, including those for the pet travel. We are also putting in place contingency arrangements in the event of a no-deal outcome.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 11:38:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

943059

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Ticks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require (a) dogs and (b) cats to be treated for ticks before entering the UK after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Defra is concerned about the risks of non-native tick species entering the UK, and in particular, the diseases that ticks can carry. Tick surveillance has shown that tick distribution and abundance is changing throughout the UK for many reasons, including habitat and climate change. Small numbers of localised infestations with non-native tick species have been reported in recent years, and imported rescue dogs have been demonstrated to be a higher risk for carrying ticks or being infected with tick-borne diseases. For these reasons, Defra strongly encourages pet owners to treat their pets to safeguard their animals against ticks and tick transmitted diseases when travelling abroad. Further advice can be obtained from their local vet, and via the Public Health England (PHE) leaflet available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Whilst Defra has no immediate plans to amend the tick controls for pet animals entering the United Kingdom, we remain concerned about the threat of ticks and tick-borne disease. As such, a risk assessment is being planned to guide future policy. Defra also continues to monitor the disease situation through the Tick Surveillance Scheme and encourages members of the public, health practitioners, veterinary practitioners, wildlife groups and others to submit ticks to the scheme, run by PHE.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 10:52:38 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

943061

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Animals: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the timeframe for the treatment of tapeworm before entry into the UK from 120 hours to 48 hours after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Defra takes the risk of the notifiable disease caused by the tapeworm, Echinococcus multiocularis, very seriously, because of the profound impact this could have on human health if it were to establish within the UK. When the UK harmonised with EU pet travel rules in 2012, Defra undertook a risk assessment and as a result maintained the requirement for tapeworm treatment, but decided to increase the treatment window in consideration of the likely increased level of compliance of a longer window. Since January 2012, the UK has remained free of Echinococcus.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra has no plans to amend the tapeworm controls for pet animals entering the United Kingdom but continues to monitor the disease situation through routine surveillance measures and will undertake a further, formal risk assessment if the evidence indicates that one is warranted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 24/07/2018 11:30:29 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

942625

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	Non-native Species: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to replicate the EU Alien Species Regulation after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The government is preparing a Statutory Instrument that will implement the EU Invasive Species Regulation in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 10:22:20 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

942628

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	Non-native Species
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to compile a list of priority species of concern of invasive species.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As a member of the EU, we already have a list of 49 risk-assessed species of Union concern. Outside the EU, this list will be the starting point for the UK’s own list.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 10:19:09 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

942633

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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	Birds: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to restrict the importation of wild-caught birds for the pet trade.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	164407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The sale and possession of wild birds native within the EU is prohibited by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Furthermore, EU regulation 139/2013 limits imports of birds from outside the EU, to only those which have been bred in captivity. This was originally put in place for bird health reasons but has wider implications for the trade and importation of birds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), to which the UK is a signatory, protects endangered species by ensuring trade is environmentally sustainable. CITES is one of the key mechanisms through which the UK Government acts to protect endangered species of plants and animals, including birds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Given the strength of the legislation already in place to control the trade and importation of wild birds there are no plans to regulate the trade further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 10:15:10 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord