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1144034

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Climate Change: International Cooperation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress has been made through international co-operation on tackling climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Liz Twist
	uin	912251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As the first G7 country to legislate for net zero by 2050, the UK is leading the world’s response to tackling the effects of climate change. That is why we are leading the resilience and adaption strand with Egypt at the upcoming Climate Change summit in New York. That is why we hope to host COP26 in Glasgow next year in partnership with Italy.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 03/09/2019 16:53:24 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

1144036

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What diplomatic steps he is taking to enhance UK soft power.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Dr Caroline Johnson
	uin	912258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Portland Index lists the UK as the World’s No.1 soft power. To maintain and develop this position, we have committed to strengthening our diplomatic network, and providing financial support for, amongst others, the BBC World Service, British Council and Chevening Scholarships.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 03/09/2019 16:55:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4592 label Biography information for Dr Caroline Johnson

1144038

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Climate Change: International Cooperation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress has been made through international co-operation on tackling climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	912261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As the first G7 country to legislate for net zero by 2050, the UK is leading the world’s response to tackling the effects of climate change. That is why we are leading the resilience and adaption strand with Egypt at the upcoming Climate Change summit in New York. That is why we hope to host COP26 in Glasgow next year in partnership with Italy.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 03/09/2019 16:53:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1142134

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Hill Farming: 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, what steps she plans to take to ensure that the UK's uplands landscape has a continued level of support through direct payments after the Environmental Land Management Scheme is phased out.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	282268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme will be available from late 2024, part way through the transition period over which the Basic Payment Scheme is to be phased out. ELM will enable farmers, foresters and other land managers to secure income in exchange for providing environmental benefits: public funds for public goods. Among the public goods for which payments will be available is the maintenance and enhancement of our landscape heritage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/09/2019 16:54:44 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1142137

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Hill Farming: 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, what steps she plans to take to ensure that uplands areas continue to receive support through changes to CAP and farm support.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	282269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Our ambitious new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme will be the cornerstone of our agricultural policy in England after we leave the EU. Due to the environmental quality of upland areas, upland farmers will be well placed to benefit from the new ELM system which will reward land managers for the public goods they provide and deliver an income stream.</p><p> </p><p>We have pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament, expected in 2022. This includes all funding provided for farm support under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We are working across Government to develop future funding arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>We will phase out Direct Payments in England during an agricultural transition period, giving time for farmers to adjust. We plan to start reducing payments in 2021. We aim to phase out Direct Payments completely by the end of the transition period, with the last payments being made for the 2027 scheme year.</p><p> </p><p>We expect that simplified versions of Countryside Stewardship will continue to be open to new applicants, including an uplands offer and capital grants. We are also currently considering whether or not to continue to extend certain Higher Level Stewardship Scheme agreements that offer strong continued environmental benefits expiring in 2019. Upland areas will continue to deliver outcomes and new agreements can be set up as we test and refine the new ELM arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/09/2019 16:56:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1141713

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	OnSide Youth Zones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2019 to Question 255690 on OnSide Youth Zones, how much Government funding is being provided to the new Onside Youth Zone in Croydon.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	281766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>DCMS does not currently provide funding to the new Onside Youth Zone in Croydon.</p><p> </p><p>Some local programmes funded by DCMS run by local delivery partners are delivered in OnSide Youth Zones. For example a money management programme through the Savers Support Fund, programmes through the Sport for Development fund and National Citizen Service local delivery.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 03/09/2019 17:39:29 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1141840

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the United Nations General Assembly of 17 December 2018 on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	281616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The government remains fully committed to protecting the Rights of the Child and to give due consideration to the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) when making policy and legislation. This was most recently re-iterated in a written ministerial statement for Universal Children’s Day on 20 November 2018 (HCWS1093), which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-11-20/HCWS1093" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-11-20/HCWS1093</a>/. In support of this, all civil servants have access to online children’s rights training and to a template for conducting a Childs Rights Impact Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The UK will submit its next periodic report to the United Nations (UN) by 14 January 2022, reporting on ongoing government measures to implement the UNCRC in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The UN General Assembly had a particular focus on gender equality in relation to the Rights of the Child and urged states to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls, particularly regarding access to and participation in education. ‘Gender equality at every stage: a roadmap for change’, published 3 July 2019 by the former Minister for Women and Equalities (Penny Mordaunt), my right hon. Friend for Portsmouth North, sets out the government's plans to address the persistent gendered barriers people face at every stage of life. The roadmap highlights plans to invest in programmes to increase participation, particularly by girls, in science, technology, engineering and maths education, to publish research and implement tools to tackle poor body image and examines how to engage boys and men on gender issues.</p><p> </p><p>2019 marks the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the UNCRC and the government is actively engaging with the UN to mark this important occasion and reflect on the work that we do to protect the rights of children in the UK and around the world.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 03/09/2019 16:57:38 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1141446

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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	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, with reference to the statement entitled Health and harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a green Brexit, published in September 2018, what steps his Department is taking to limit the costs for small land owners of the future environmental land management scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	281017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Agriculture Bill constitutes the first major agricultural reform in the UK for almost 50 years. It will allow us to break from the rules of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and presents a unique opportunity to devise a new Environmental Land Management system where the Government will work with farmers, land managers, environmental experts and stakeholders to test and trial new approaches and investigate innovative mechanisms for delivery of environmental outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>Small farmers and land owners will be well placed to benefit from any future scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/09/2019 16:58:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1141450

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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	Eggs: Import Duties
	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 evidential base is for the Government's proposal to apply zero rate tariffs for eggs and egg products.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	281019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>In setting that temporary regime the Government has sought to strike a balance between the impacts on consumers and producers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government considered the available evidence on tariff rates, exposure to competition, and the potential impact on business costs and employment, weighing this against the impact of tariffs on consumer prices and producers’ supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising that there are significant uncertainties, the Government believes it has adopted a policy that strikes the right balance between not exposing the UK market to an unreasonable level of competition, and liberalising tariffs to maintain current supply chains and to avoid an increase in consumer prices.</p><p> </p><p>The temporary tariff policy would only apply for up to 12 months. During the 12 month period, the Government will work with industry and remain responsive to businesses and consumers. We will consider exceptional changes where clear evidence is provided against the criteria set out by the five principles of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.</p><p> </p><p>After this, the Government intends to introduce a long-term tariff regime. This would be developed over the course of the next 12 months following an appropriate public consultation process with interested stakeholders, including the eggs sector.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 03/09/2019 17:00:02 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington