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1176661

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	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	Dogs: Animal Welfare
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps her Department is taking to tackle the drugging of dogs for use by buskers.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	900660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>There are already laws and regulations in place to protect animals used by buskers. Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, it is a criminal offence to cause unnecessary suffering to an animal, and to administer an injurious or poisonous drug to an animal. Specific concerns about the welfare of dogs used by buskers can be reported to local authorities, the police or the RSPCA.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/02/2020 17:17:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1176780

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	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	Agricultural Machinery: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support the Government plans to provide for farmers to de-carbonise agricultural vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
	uin	13504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to take action to mitigate climate change and to adapt to its impact. We have committed significant funding for agri-tech innovation, including research and development to move us towards net zero farming systems. We will offer financial assistance to enable farmers, foresters, and growers to invest in the equipment, technology, and infrastructure that they need, to improve their productivity, manage the environment sustainably, and deliver other public goods.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) supports the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from fuel supplied for use in transport. The RTFO is a certificate trading scheme which rewards those supplying low carbon fuels in the UK for use in road vehicles and some other forms of transport, including tractors.</p><p> </p><p>Low carbon fuels supplied under the RTFO saved 2.88 million tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in just the last three quarters of 2018. The Government has nearly doubled targets for supply from 2018 to 2020, and set further targets out to 2032, providing investment certainty.</p><p> </p><p>Agricultural fuel and energy use represent around 1% of the total UK emissions, and constitutes just 10% of agricultural sector emissions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/02/2020 17:25:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1365028

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2021
	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	Jo Churchill
	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 Answer of 28 October 2021 to Question 59956, on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ministerial Responsibility, which policy areas the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in his Department, the hon. Member for Bury St Edmonds, has covered in meetings at the Department.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	67254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The ministerial responsibilities of the hon. Member for Bury St Edmonds have been published on gov.uk. External meetings will be published in the usual way on the transparency data publications, available on gov.uk in due course.</p><p>I can confirm the hon. Member for Bury St Edmonds is a paid member of the Government.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 67253 67255 question first answered 09/11/2021 09:48:52 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1176089

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Cumbria
	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 the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of a buffer zone around the minimum infected area in Cumbria for the vaccination of badgers, and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	12245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>A ‘buffer zone’ currently operates around the minimum infected area in Area 32-Cumbria; this is referred to as the outer cull area (OCA). Both the minimum infected area and the outer cull area together make up the intervention area.</p><p> </p><p>The OCA is based on estimated average badger social group territory size surrounding the minimum infected area, to take into account the possibility that infection may have already spread in the badger population. The boundary was adjusted to adhere to natural barriers to badger movement as far as practical to minimise the risk of possible perturbation effects.</p><p> </p><p>The results of testing of badgers from the 2019 cull are still being analysed. When completed they will inform decisions as to what type of badger control method should be applied in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/02/2020 11:51:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1176021

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Compensation
	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 she has made an assessment of the potential merits of equalising compensation payments to farmers in England for TB-affected cattle with those paid to farmers in devolved areas of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
	uin	12376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Responsibility for animal health policies, including statutory compensation schemes, is fully devolved. Defra carried out a statutory review of the relevant legislation in England - the Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2012 (SI 2012 No.1379) and the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2012 (SI 2012 No.1380) - in 2016. A summary report of that review published in July 2017 is available on the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/02/2020 11:54:25 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1176087

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	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 her Department plans to continue expanding the boundary of the minimum infected area in Cumbria in the event that the Animal and Plant Health Agency continues finding badgers outside that area which are infected with TB; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	12243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>In Area 32-Cumbria the cull area is made up of two parts, the minimum infected area and the outer cull area. The minimum infected area is based on:</p><p> </p><ol><li>the location of the infected badgers, associated farms and contiguous breakdown areas, plus a radius of the estimated average social group territory based on main sett distribution; and</li></ol><p> </p><ol><li>the location of another farm with a TB breakdown very strongly suspected on epidemiological grounds to be badger related.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Therefore the boundary could be expanded if evidence shows that infected badgers are found outside the boundary, as it was in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/02/2020 12:00:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1176782

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	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: Competition
	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 her Department has made an assessment of the effect a mutual recognition agreement with the US on animal welfare standards on the competitiveness of UK animal produce in the UK market.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	13506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>US animal products are produced to a range of US animal welfare standards, partly because some US regulatory requirements apply at state level and others apply at federal level. Industry farm assurance schemes also exist in the United States and involve scheme members meeting scheme standards, which may exceed US regulatory requirements. The quality standards which apply to particular products imported from the US also reflect the commercial supply chain requirements of the importer, which may exceed the baseline regulatory standards applying in the US.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/02/2020 17:29:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1175733

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2020
	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
	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 she plans to bring forward legislation to recognise animal sentience.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	11532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for City of Chester, Christian Matheson, on 20 January 2020, WQ <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-15/3774" target="_blank">3774</a>.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/02/2020 16:23:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1361934

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2021
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Responsibilities
	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 the Ministerial responsibilities of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in his Department, the hon. Member for Bury St Edmonds.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	59956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>The Ministerial responsibilities of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in my Department, the hon. Member for Bury St Edmonds, will be published on gov.uk in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/10/2021 13:29:05 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1176083

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	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 cost to the public purse is of each badger cull zone; and what estimate she has made of the economic cost-benefit of each of those areas to date; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	12241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Bovine TB is one of the greatest animal health threats to the UK and the disease costs the public over £100 million a year, with the cost to the farming industry around £50 million a year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government badger cull costs are published annually on the GOV.UK website and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-government-badger-control-costs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-government-badger-control-costs</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The 2019 costs are still being calculated and will be published later this year. Costs are not broken down by cull zone.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent badger control policy value for money analysis, carried out in 2019, estimates the Net Present Value i.e. the monetised benefits of Badger Control over 11 years at £1.08 million per area.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found on GOV.UK at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-badger-control-policy-value-for-money-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-badger-control-policy-value-for-money-analysis</a>.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/02/2020 11:52:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown