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1465826

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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 Products: 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, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) costs and (b) benefits of banning imports of hunting trophies into the UK; and whether such assessments took into account the potential impact of such a ban on (i) levels of biodiversity and (ii) evolutionary harm to species.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	8989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The consultation and call for evidence on hunting trophies ran from 2 November 2019 to 25 February 2020. We received views and evidence on the costs and benefits of further restrictions, including the potential impacts on biodiversity and species.</p><p> </p><p>The summary of responses and Government response to the consultation and call for evidence are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/hunting-trophies-controlling-imports-to-and-exports-from-the-uk/outcome/summary-of-responses-and-government-response--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/hunting-trophies-controlling-imports-to-and-exports-from-the-uk/outcome/summary-of-responses-and-government-response--2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further information will be published when legislation is brought forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/06/2022 16:37:03 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1465827

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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 Products: 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, what estimate he has made of the number of hunting trophies from endangered species that have been imported into the UK since December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	8990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK recorded 63 imports of hunting trophies under CITES in 2019 and 26 imports in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2021 is currently being finalised and will be made available through the CITES trade database at <a href="https://trade.cites.org/" target="_blank">https://trade.cites.org/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 08/06/2022 15:17:39 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1465828

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
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 Products: 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, what steps his Department has taken to bring forward legislative proposals on banning the import of hunting trophies from endangered species announced in December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	8991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2022 answer text <p>We have pledged to bring forward legislation to ban imports of hunting trophies from thousands of species. This ban will be among the strongest in the world, leading the way in protecting endangered animals. We intend to bring this forward as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 10/06/2022 13:00:26 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1383486

registered interest
date	30/11/2021
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 Products: 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, when he plans to ban trophy hunting imports.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	84338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2021 answer text <p>This year we have already introduced our Animal Sentience and Kept Animals Bills to Parliament and we intend to legislate further to protect animals abroad as soon as parliamentary time allows. We will be setting out our detailed plans for action soon, including by publishing the Government’s response to the consultation on trophy hunting imports.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/12/2021 12:38:03 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1355058

registered interest
date	13/09/2021
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	Zoos
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 steps he has taken to ensure that his Department’s standards of modern zoo practice include (a) conservation activities on supporting endangered species through the collection of genetic material for research and (b) the provision of formal education sessions..
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	48214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>Section 1A of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981 currently sets the conservation, research and education requirements that licensed zoos in Great Britain must meet. The Government is proposing, via the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill currently before Parliament, to allow these standards instead to be set in the Secretary of State’s Standards of Modern Zoo Practice (‘the Zoo Standards’). This will mean that they may be updated more easily in future. The Zoo Standards are in the process of being updated by Defra, in consultation with the UK’s Zoos Expert Committee, and will include new conservation, research and education standards in preparation for the new legislation. Defra is aiming to publish a draft of the new Zoo Standards, for a targeted consultation of relevant zoo stakeholders, later this year.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 21/09/2021 13:01:15 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1287384

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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	River Derwent: Sewage
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 litres of untreated sewage spilled into the River Derwent in Mid Derbyshire in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	155007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>Event Duration Monitors (EDM) record the number of times there has been a discharge of storm sewage and for how long each discharge was for. The Water Companies send in an annual summary which gives the total number of discharges per year and the total duration per year for each site where it is a permit requirement. The 2020 data is not yet available as it is submitted at the end of February.</p><p> </p><p>Event Duration Monitors started being installed in 2016 and have been progressively installed across Combined Sewer Overflows, Sewage Pumping Stations and Sewage Treatment Works. Not all sites require EDM monitoring, this depends on the sensitivity of where the discharge is made.</p><p> </p><p>Direct storm sewage discharges to the River Derwent, Derbyshire (Source to confluence with River Trent)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of sites reporting EDM Data</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number of storm sewage spills</p></td><td><p>983</p></td><td><p>1788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total duration (hours) of storm sewage spills</p></td><td><p>3845</p></td><td><p>12475</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The discharge from these water company assets (in this case Severn Trent Water Ltd) is only permitted to occur when there is elevated flow in the combined (sewage and surface water) sewerage network due to rainfall/snowmelt. The discharge is known as storm sewage and the impact on water quality is reduced due to the increased dilution both within the sewer and the receiving watercourse.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2021 the Storm Overflows Taskforce announced plans by the water companies to accelerate work to install monitoring devices on all storm overflows by 2023. The Environment Agency is working with all water companies to increase the transparency of EDM data by 2022. This will provide readily accessible data in a consistent format, which will give greater visibility and increase responsibility of water companies to go faster and further in reducing harm from storm overflow discharges.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/02/2021 17:58:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1149306

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 Products: 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, which animals will be covered by the ban on trophy hunting imports to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Last month we announced that we will be consulting on whether to further restrict the import and export of hunting trophies.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation will cover a range of options. This is an important next step to determine how best to respond to conservation, welfare and ethical concerns. Following the consultation we will publish a Government response setting out any future policy actions required to move ahead on this important issue. The exact scope and timing of any further action will be subject to results of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith grouped question UIN 571 572 574 577 question first answered 21/10/2019 15:21:10 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1149307

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 Products: 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, what the timeframe is for the ban on trophy hunting imports to come into force.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Last month we announced that we will be consulting on whether to further restrict the import and export of hunting trophies.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation will cover a range of options. This is an important next step to determine how best to respond to conservation, welfare and ethical concerns. Following the consultation we will publish a Government response setting out any future policy actions required to move ahead on this important issue. The exact scope and timing of any further action will be subject to results of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith grouped question UIN 570 572 574 577 question first answered 21/10/2019 15:21:10 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1149308

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 Products: 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, which countries will be banned from exporting trophies from hunting to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Last month we announced that we will be consulting on whether to further restrict the import and export of hunting trophies.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation will cover a range of options. This is an important next step to determine how best to respond to conservation, welfare and ethical concerns. Following the consultation we will publish a Government response setting out any future policy actions required to move ahead on this important issue. The exact scope and timing of any further action will be subject to results of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith grouped question UIN 570 571 574 577 question first answered 21/10/2019 15:21:10 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1149309

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 Products: 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, which countries are allowed to import hunting trophies to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) permit system allows trade in hunting trophies of listed species, from any country party to CITES, only when it is satisfied that the export will not be harmful to the survival of the species. Import suspensions are in place for countries where hunting of certain species is considered unsustainable.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith question first answered 23/10/2019 15:22:10 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham