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933785

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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	Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill
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 he plans to publish his response to the consultation on the draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	159486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>I refer my Hon Friend to the reply given to the Hon Member for Bristol East on 27 March 2018 to PQ 133919.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/07/2018 11:43:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

914825

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Food Supply
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 recent assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on food security.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	148595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK has a high degree of food security, as demonstrated by the 2010 UK Food Security Assessment. Defra is currently undertaking a periodic review of the overall assessment. The UK sources food from a diverse range of countries, in addition to a strong domestic production base. The main drivers of food price changes are oil prices and weather events. This will not change after leaving the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/06/2018 12:21:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

914827

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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
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 he is taking to ensure that the poultry meat sector has adequate access to skilled staff after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	148597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>Access to a sufficient and appropriately-skilled workforce is essential to continued industry growth, productivity and safety. We are working with industry to ensure that we understand the labour supply and demand across the food chain, including the poultry sector, and the effect of leaving the EU.</p><p>Until we have left the EU, employers can continue to recruit EU workers to meet their labour needs. In December 2017 the UK Government reached an agreement with the EU that will allow those EU citizens to work and live here broadly as they do now.</p><p>Defra is working closely with the Home Office as we work towards developing a new immigration system following our departure from the EU. As part of this, the Government has commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to assess the role that EU citizens play in the UK economy and society.</p><p>For the longer term, Defra is working with industry to raise awareness of the career opportunities within the agriculture and food industry to attract domestic workers, and is exploring the potential for innovation and automation in meeting future labour demands.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 148598 148599 question first answered 07/06/2018 14:50:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

914828

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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
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 his Department has made an assessment of the effect of leaving the EU on the labour requirements of the poultry business to (a) sustain and (b) increase levels of production.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	148598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>Access to a sufficient and appropriately-skilled workforce is essential to continued industry growth, productivity and safety. We are working with industry to ensure that we understand the labour supply and demand across the food chain, including the poultry sector, and the effect of leaving the EU.</p><p>Until we have left the EU, employers can continue to recruit EU workers to meet their labour needs. In December 2017 the UK Government reached an agreement with the EU that will allow those EU citizens to work and live here broadly as they do now.</p><p>Defra is working closely with the Home Office as we work towards developing a new immigration system following our departure from the EU. As part of this, the Government has commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to assess the role that EU citizens play in the UK economy and society.</p><p>For the longer term, Defra is working with industry to raise awareness of the career opportunities within the agriculture and food industry to attract domestic workers, and is exploring the potential for innovation and automation in meeting future labour demands.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 148597 148599 question first answered 07/06/2018 14:50:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

914829

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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
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 his Department is taking to ensure the maintenance of the poultry meat sector workforce after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	148599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>Access to a sufficient and appropriately-skilled workforce is essential to continued industry growth, productivity and safety. We are working with industry to ensure that we understand the labour supply and demand across the food chain, including the poultry sector, and the effect of leaving the EU.</p><p>Until we have left the EU, employers can continue to recruit EU workers to meet their labour needs. In December 2017 the UK Government reached an agreement with the EU that will allow those EU citizens to work and live here broadly as they do now.</p><p>Defra is working closely with the Home Office as we work towards developing a new immigration system following our departure from the EU. As part of this, the Government has commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to assess the role that EU citizens play in the UK economy and society.</p><p>For the longer term, Defra is working with industry to raise awareness of the career opportunities within the agriculture and food industry to attract domestic workers, and is exploring the potential for innovation and automation in meeting future labour demands.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 148597 148598 question first answered 07/06/2018 14:50:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

909090

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Furs: Import Controls
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 seek legal advice on whether the UK can introduce a ban on the import of fur while the UK is a member of the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	146054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2018 answer text <p>The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) places restrictions on the introduction of measures that impair the free movement of goods within the EU market.</p><p> </p><p>Where there are EU harmonising measures relevant to the movement of fur – including the Animal By-Products Regulation in respect of untreated fur and the Seal Products Regulation – any derogation from those in the form of a national restriction would need to meet the requirements of Article 114 TFEU or any specific safeguard measure included in the harmonising legislation. This would involve notifying the measures to the European Commission who would need to be satisfied that the issue is “specific to that Member State”, that it would not amount to a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade, or an obstacle to the functioning of the internal market.</p><p> </p><p>Introducing a ban in the absence of such consent where it is needed would breach Article 114 TFEU.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/06/2018 15:09:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

909128

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Livestock: Exports
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 enforcement checks were carried out by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (a) during the loading of live animals and (b) at ports from which live animals were exported in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	146056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) are not an enforcement body but do carry out regulatory checks, in this case supervised loadings and checks at port.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, APHA conducted:-</p><p>(a) <strong>71</strong> checks during the loading of live animals export consignments.</p><p>(b) <strong>85</strong> mid-journey compliance checks were undertaken at the ports from which live animals were exported.</p><p> </p><p>When approving proposed journeys for the export of livestock, APHA conduct a risk assessment which scores proposed journeys with a final destination of the EU, or where transiting the EU, against criteria affecting the likelihood of non-compliances.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/06/2018 12:30:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

903909

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which EU (a) networks, (b) information systems and (c) databases his Department expects to (i) lose access to and (ii) pay to be part of and (iii) replicate after the UK has left the EU; and what assessment his Department has made of the cost of (A) paying for access and (B) replicating those systems.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	143619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>We are seeking a deep and special partnership with the EU consistent with this taking back control of our borders, laws, money and trade. Our relationship with the EU's agencies and systems upon departure will be evaluated on this basis.</p><p>No decisions have yet been made on our future relationship with the EU's agencies and systems after leaving the EU. We are considering a range of options very carefully.</p><p>Where there is a demonstrable advantage in pursuing a continued relationship with an agency or other EU body, the Government will carefully examine whether we should pursue this. This will be a matter for negotiations.</p><p>We are also making preparations to replicate some EU systems where this may be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/05/2018 09:25:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

895307

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
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 the timetable is for his Department to introduce legislative proposals to raise the maximum sentence for animal cruelty to five years; and whether his Department plans to do this by means of primary legislation.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	139924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government proposes to introduce legislation to increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty offences as soon as Parliamentary time permits.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/05/2018 16:30:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

894962

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Balloons and Sky Lanterns: Agriculture
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 his Department is reduce the risks of helium balloons and sky lanterns to livestock keepers and the wider agricultural community.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	139345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>We have been taking forward a series of non-regulatory measures, aimed at minimising the risks associated with sky lanterns and helium balloons and driving up safety standards. These include a voluntary Code of Practice for sky lanterns to ensure that sky lanterns are manufactured to be safe and are sold responsibly. NABAS the National Association of Balloon Artists and Suppliers, (the trade association for the balloon industry), has also published a code of conduct on balloon releases.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 09/05/2018 16:50:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake