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46447

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2014, Official Report, columns 595-6W, on public sector: food, whether the Manufacturing Advisory Service is unable to give grant aid to the farming industry due to state aid restrictions relating to existing Common Agricultural Policy payments.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	195018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The criteria for support from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) do not include any reference to state aid restrictions related to Common Agricultural Policy payments. MAS delivers support to manufacturers, and is able to support land based enterprises such as farmers, which have formally diversified their agricultural business from their product manufacturing activities.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

46708

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many representations he has received relating to concerns over Grant Thornton's handling of insolvency or bankruptcy cases since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	195094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Prior to the introduction of the Insolvency Service's Complaints Gateway in June 2013 no central record was maintained of numbers of complaints made against individual firms.</p><p> </p><p>Since June 2013 there have been 794 complaints received via the Complaints Gateway, of which 70 related to recorded complaints about insolvency practitioners from Grant Thornton in respect to formal insolvency procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

61041

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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: Antibiotics
	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 proportion of antibiotics used in the UK are given to farm animals.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	199824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Data on antibiotic use in the medical and veterinary sectors are currently collated in different formats, which prevents direct comparison; it is therefore not possible to accurately ascertain what proportion of total antibiotics used in the UK are given to farm animals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2012, sales of antibiotic active ingredient authorised for veterinary use (farm and companion animals) totalled 409 tonnes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/06/2014 14:47:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

61042

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Minister in his Department leads on anti-microbial resistance in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	199981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>I generally lead on this Government priority. My hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (Dr Daniel Poulter) has a specific interest in relation to healthcare associated infections. However, all Departmental Ministers act as advocates on this global public health issue that cuts across the Department's portfolio.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/06/2014 16:10:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

61752

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Influenza
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of reports that scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain; whether he has made an assessment of the potential threat to the UK population arising from that experiment; and whether the Government has made any representations to the US administration on this matter.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	200589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) was advised that the work undertaken at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been reviewed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, in keeping with the institute's implementation of the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, PHE understand that the research was carried out in secure facilities with high levels of containment. A key finding of the research was that people vaccinated with the current seasonal influenza vaccine (which protects against 2009 H1N1 influenza, a related virus) had some evidence of protection against the novel virus that had been created. In addition, the team showed that the novel transmissible virus is expected to be sensitive to the antiviral medication oseltamivir. Effective counter measures to this novel virus are therefore available.</p><p> </p><p>This research provides information on the mechanisms responsible for adaptation of avian influenza viruses to mammals. Knowing what genes are associated with a potentially severe pandemic strain can help predict the likelihood of a strain emerging and help devise appropriate counter measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 200875 question first answered 19/06/2014 15:44:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

62070

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Influenza
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of reports that scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain; whether he has made an assessment of the potential threat to the UK population arising from that experiment; and whether the Government has made any representation to the US administration on this matter.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	200875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) was advised that the work undertaken at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been reviewed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, in keeping with the institute's implementation of the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, PHE understand that the research was carried out in secure facilities with high levels of containment. A key finding of the research was that people vaccinated with the current seasonal influenza vaccine (which protects against 2009 H1N1 influenza, a related virus) had some evidence of protection against the novel virus that had been created. In addition, the team showed that the novel transmissible virus is expected to be sensitive to the antiviral medication oseltamivir. Effective counter measures to this novel virus are therefore available.</p><p> </p><p>This research provides information on the mechanisms responsible for adaptation of avian influenza viruses to mammals. Knowing what genes are associated with a potentially severe pandemic strain can help predict the likelihood of a strain emerging and help devise appropriate counter measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 200589 question first answered 19/06/2014 15:44:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

63067

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2014
	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	Veterinary Medicine: Antibiotics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral evidence of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environment to the Science and Technology Committee of 12 March 2014, HC 848, question 327, what the evidential basis is for his statement that antibiotics tend to be used in the veterinary world more sparingly than in the medical world.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	201646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Data on antibiotic use in the medical and veterinary sectors are currently collated in a different format, which prevents direct comparison.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that 376 tonnes of just one class of antibiotic, the β-lactams, was used in primary care in England in 2012. This does not factor in other classes of antibiotic, or those used in secondary care. In contrast the total sales of all antibiotics for use in animals for the whole UK was 409 tonnes, 82 tonnes of which were β-lactams.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/06/2014 15:47:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

63072

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cannabis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications have been made to the (a) National Institute for Health Research and (b) Medical Research Council for funding to research medicinal cannabis products since 2010; and how many such applications have been accepted.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	201653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Cannabis is naturally occurring plant and a Class B controlled drug; one of the main active chemicals in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Cannabis is not a medicinal product and is not licensed as a medicine in the United Kingdom and the Government has no plans to legalise raw cannabis for medicinal purposes, as cannabis has a number of acute and chronic health effects, such the possibility of developing mental health problems or harming the lungs when smoked.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 two applications for research funding into medicinal cannabis have been made to National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Programmes. Of these one, within the Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme, has been accepted.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR also provides support and facilities for research by funding a range of infrastructure facilities. Since 2010 seven projects related to medicinal cannabis have been supported through the NIHR infrastructure; however it is not possible to ascertain the number of applications received as the Department, and our managing agent, does not record this information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Between April 2010 and March 2014 the Medical Research Council received four applications for funding for research that related to the medicinal cannabis products. Of these four applications, two were successful.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 30/06/2014 14:54:04 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

63074

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Influenza
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns 703-4W, on influenza, whether the same experiment would be allowed to take place in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	201666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 30/06/2014 16:13:04 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

64972

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	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	Environment Protection: Seas and Oceans
	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 plans to take to implement the recommendations in the Global Ocean Commission's report, From Decline to Recovery: A Rescue Package for the Global Ocean.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	203414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK Government is already playing a key role in tackling a number of issues raised in this report. For example, we are already pressing for an agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, in ensuring implementation of UN Resolution 61/105 on sustainable fisheries, and in promoting action to combat illegal fishing. We are also working with partner countries in OSPAR on a range of environmental measures in the north-east Atlantic including a regional action plan to address marine litter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/07/2014 14:29:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park