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1127867

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Wildlife: Africa
	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 evidence there is that sustainable hunting has led to an increase of wildlife in African trophy hunting concession areas.
	tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
	tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
	uin	257000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has previously commissioned a report by Professor Macdonald on Lion Conservation with Particular Respect to the Issue of Trophy Hunting. This report found that the primary benefit associated with trophy hunting is the protection of wildlife habitat by reducing the major threat of habitat loss. Lion trophy hunting enables land to be maintained under wildlife-based land use and often prevents the conversion of the area to other forms of land use such as agriculture. This habitat protection is also important for many other species, including endangered species. The report notes that a total area of around 1.4 million km2 was conserved for trophy-hunting in sub-Saharan Africa, which exceeded the area of national parks in those countries by 22%. The report also cited studies on the number of jobs supported by trophy hunting.</p><p> </p><p>Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) take different views on trophy hunting. My Hon. friend may be interested in the evidence cited by the</p><p><strong>IUCN</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf</a>)</p><p><strong>WWF</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf</a>),</p><p>and <strong>Save the Rhino</strong> (<a href="https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 256999 257001 question first answered 30/05/2019 09:54:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1127808

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Plastics: Recycling
	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 discussions he has had with businesses on the use of detectable black pigment in plastics to facilitate the recycling of plastic.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	257075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>Defra Ministers and officials have met industry representatives to highlight the importance of increasing the recyclability of materials, including black plastics. As part of our proposals to reform the UK packaging producer responsibility system, we have outlined options that provide a financial incentive for producers to move towards using more easily recycled packaging materials and formats. We expect these initiatives by industry, combined with our reforms, to work together to eliminate from use the problematic and difficult to recycle plastic packaging.</p><p> </p><p>Industry has committed to taking action on implementing solutions to prevent black plastic waste going to landfill and encourage recycling. In April 2018, WRAP and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation published its Plastics Pact with support from Defra and 80 businesses, NGOs, government organisations and service providers. The Pact brings these organisations together with the aim of making 100% of plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. A number of UK Plastic Pact members, including Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl have committed to reducing or eliminating black plastic packaging, while other companies are using detectable pigment that enables black plastic to be recycled.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/05/2019 09:06:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1127803

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Plastics: Packaging
	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 discussions he has had with representatives of supermarket chains on the reduction of single-use plastics for product packaging.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	257073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is currently working with retailers and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to encourage their efforts to reduce waste and to explore the introduction of plastic-free supermarket initiatives in which fresh food is sold loose, giving consumers the choice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently consulted on reforms to the packaging producer responsibility system to ensure that packaging producers meet the full cost of managing and recycling packaging waste. This provides a strong incentive to producers to reduce the amount of packaging they use and to make packaging that is more easily collected and recycled.</p><p> </p><p>Industry is already taking action. In April last year, WRAP and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched their world-leading UK Plastics Pact, with support from the Government, and all the major supermarkets have signed up to it. The Pact brings these organisations together with four key targets for 2025 that aim to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated, which include action to eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use plastic packaging items. Our proposed reforms will support supermarkets in achieving those targets.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/05/2019 09:13:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1127807

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Plastics: Packaging
	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 he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to restrict the use of (a) polystyrene and (b) PVC in plastic packaging.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	257074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>In our Resources and Waste Strategy we committed to reform our current packaging producer responsibility system. We recently consulted on measures to ensure that producers pay the full costs of disposal for packaging they place on the market, as well as mechanisms to incentivise producers to make better, more sustainable decisions at the design stage and point of manufacture. This includes making producers pay more if their products aren’t easily recyclable.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider legislative proposals as necessary in achieving our objective.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/05/2019 09:59:40 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1127866

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Lions: Hunting
	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 evidence there is that wild lion trophy hunting has contributed to the conservation of the species.
	tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
	tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
	uin	256999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has previously commissioned a report by Professor Macdonald on Lion Conservation with Particular Respect to the Issue of Trophy Hunting. This report found that the primary benefit associated with trophy hunting is the protection of wildlife habitat by reducing the major threat of habitat loss. Lion trophy hunting enables land to be maintained under wildlife-based land use and often prevents the conversion of the area to other forms of land use such as agriculture. This habitat protection is also important for many other species, including endangered species. The report notes that a total area of around 1.4 million km2 was conserved for trophy-hunting in sub-Saharan Africa, which exceeded the area of national parks in those countries by 22%. The report also cited studies on the number of jobs supported by trophy hunting.</p><p> </p><p>Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) take different views on trophy hunting. My Hon. friend may be interested in the evidence cited by the</p><p><strong>IUCN</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf</a>)</p><p><strong>WWF</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf</a>),</p><p>and <strong>Save the Rhino</strong> (<a href="https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 257000 257001 question first answered 30/05/2019 09:54:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1127868

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Lions: East Africa
	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 there is evidence that rural communities in (a) Tanzania, (b) Zambia and (c) Zimbabwe have benefited from lion trophy hunting in those countries.
	tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
	tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
	uin	257001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has previously commissioned a report by Professor Macdonald on Lion Conservation with Particular Respect to the Issue of Trophy Hunting. This report found that the primary benefit associated with trophy hunting is the protection of wildlife habitat by reducing the major threat of habitat loss. Lion trophy hunting enables land to be maintained under wildlife-based land use and often prevents the conversion of the area to other forms of land use such as agriculture. This habitat protection is also important for many other species, including endangered species. The report notes that a total area of around 1.4 million km2 was conserved for trophy-hunting in sub-Saharan Africa, which exceeded the area of national parks in those countries by 22%. The report also cited studies on the number of jobs supported by trophy hunting.</p><p> </p><p>Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) take different views on trophy hunting. My Hon. friend may be interested in the evidence cited by the</p><p><strong>IUCN</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/iucn_informingdecisionsontrophyhuntingv1_1.pdf</a>)</p><p><strong>WWF</strong> (<a href="https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf" target="_blank">https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/wwf_policy_and_considerations_re_trophy_hunting__july_2016_.pdf</a>),</p><p>and <strong>Save the Rhino</strong> (<a href="https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.savetherhino.org/assets/0001/7279/What_is_trophy_hunting.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 256999 257000 question first answered 30/05/2019 09:54:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1127865

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Lions: Africa
	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 wild lions there will be in Africa by 2025 if the current rate of hunting continues.
	tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
	tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
	uin	256998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of future numbers of African lions in 2025 if current hunting levels continue.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/05/2019 08:55:40 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1127415

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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	Hen Harriers: Conservation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 16 January (HL12536), what steps they will take in response to the report Patterns of satellite tagged hen harrier disappearances suggest widespread illegal killing on British grouse moors, published in Nature Communications on 19 May, which found that hen harriers are ten times as likely to disappear over grouse moors than elsewhere and that this is the primary cause of their decline; and whether this finding will be reflected in an update to the 2016 Hen Harrier Action Plan.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL15826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Defra and Natural England will continue working in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders, including moorland communities, conservation organisations, police and landowners to implement the Hen Harrier Action Plan, which is kept under regular review.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is also working with the Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group on a new action plan to tackle raptor persecution, led by a senior police officer and drawing together representatives from a range of stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/06/2019 11:01:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1128007

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Fire Resistant Materials
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 20 May (HL15634), whether DecaBDE is the same chemical as DecaPBDE; and whether production and use of DecaPBDE continues in the UK.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL15892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) is a group of chemicals consisting of brominated hydrocarbons, of which decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE) is one. When the term DecaPBDE is used in literature it usually refers to DecaBDE.</p><p> </p><p>The UK ceased production of DecaBDE in 1996 and its use has declined sharply since then. It has been banned under the UN Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants since December 2018 and this will be reflected in the revision to Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 on Persistent Organic Pollutants and also under the European chemical regulation regime, REACH, since March 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/06/2019 14:24:04 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

1127811

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Falkland Islands: Environment Protection
	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 the Government has to continue to fund environmental (a) research and (b) policy-making on the Falkland Islands after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	256922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Funding for environment projects for British Overseas Territories after we leave the EU will be assessed as part of the forthcoming Spending Review. As announced in the Chancellor’s Spring Statement package on 13 March, the Government has published a call for evidence which invites ideas on how the British Overseas Territories’ biodiversity can be safeguarded:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/safeguarding-the-environment-in-british-overseas-territories-call-for-evidence/call-for-evidence-document" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/safeguarding-the-environment-in-british-overseas-territories-call-for-evidence/call-for-evidence-document</a></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 04/06/2019 11:55:53 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn