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487020

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date	24/03/2016
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	Animals: 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 preparedness is of the Animal and Plant Health Agency to react to and control a potential future animal health outbreak similar in scale to the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	32500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), compiles the UK contingency plan for exotic notifiable disease that sits above plans designed by Defra and the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Governments.</p><p>These are key documents that describe the strategic, tactical and operational responses required to any incursion of exotic notifiable disease, such as foot and mouth disease. These plans are complemented by specific GB disease control strategies and APHA work with the Government Departments in each administration to produce the necessary operational instructions.</p><p>To ensure the plans and instructions are fit for purpose, the UK runs a national animal disease exercise roughly every other year on various exotic diseases and we regularly include foot and mouth disease in those exercises.</p><p>The next national exercise will be in June 2018 and will be based on a foot and mouth disease scenario.</p><p>APHA also create and manage an annual programme of regional or country exercises designed to identify best practice and any gaps in existing plans or procedures. They also run table-top exercises for APHA’s policy customers to identify issues that may arise from new and emerging threats such as African Horse Sickness.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 10:58:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

487024

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
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	Dairy Products: Prices
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 she is taking to ensure that farmers receive fair pricing for their dairy produce.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	32564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The £26.2 million aid package we secured from the European Commission has helped to provide some immediate relief. A number of supermarkets have also pledged to pay a premium over and above the current market price.</p><p> </p><p>Longer term, we are working to develop futures markets in the dairy sector to help farmers manage risk.</p><p> </p><p>At the most recent council meeting in the EU, the UK supported a package of new measures to try to help the dairy sector recover.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 11:07:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

485611

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Whales: Pollutants
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 she has made of the levels of toxic heavy metals, cadmium and mercury, in the sea on the brains and organs of pilot whales in 2012.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	32259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Scientists working for Defra have not made any assessment of the levels of cadmium and mercury in the brains and organs of pilot whales in 2012.</p><p>However, I am aware that the University of Aberdeen carried out assessments of this kind on pilot whales stranded on Scottish beaches in the same year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 10:42:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

485614

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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: Fines
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 much her Department has paid in fines for what reasons to the EU in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	32318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Newton Abbott, Anne Marie Morris, to PQ UIN 31252 on 21 March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>As from financial year 2010/11 Defra has accrued £336m for disallowance following the conclusion of EU audits, broken down by financial year as shown in the table below. This relates to a number of different Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Schemes over a number of historical scheme years as disallowance is paid in arrears. These are the only fines that have been imposed on Defra by the EU since 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Disallowance (*) £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>14/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(*) Reflects the sums the European Commission have ruled cannot be reimbursed (i.e. the amounts they have “disallowed”).</p><p> </p><p>Disallowance is applied when we are considered to not have adequate controls in place to protect CAP expenditure, for example, where our inspection processes or the quality of our mapping have been deemed to be insufficient.</p><p> </p><p>We are making a significant investment to improve the quality and currency of our mapping data, which is historically our biggest disallowance risk.</p><p> </p><p>Other key sources of historic disallowance include failures to adequately control cross compliance, the Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organisation scheme and some of the Rural Development schemes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 10:35:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

485617

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Pets: 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 plans she has to reintroduce tick treatment for pet animals returning to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hertford and Stortford
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Prisk
uin	32374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The requirement for tick treatment was dropped as part of the harmonisation of the EU pet travel rules for movement and import of non-commercial dogs following a qualitative risk assessment and economic impact assessment for the introduction of Mediterranean Spotted fever (MSF) and the Brown Dog tick, <em>Rhipicephalus sanguineus</em>.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence which informed these pieces of work has not changed and therefore there is still no strong scientific basis for reintroducing the requirement for tick treatment to control MSF, a zoonotic disease.</p><p> </p><p>Treatments for ticks are readily available and veterinary practices are able to advise on the most appropriate treatments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 10:51:44 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1424 label Biography information for Mr Mark Prisk

485618

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	White Fish: Conservation
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 her Department has taken in response to the Resolution of the House of 11 February on conservation of sea bass and the effect of related EU measures on the UK recreational fishing industry.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	32444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has noted carefully the points of the Resolution of the House, which have informed the ongoing development of UK policy on bass as we continue to work to improve the sustainability of the stock at both national and EU level.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 10:10:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

485634

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Africa: Poverty
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 she has made of the effect of the Common Agricultural Policy on the level of poverty among farmers in Africa.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	32240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>In the past, the CAP ‘dumped’ EU surpluses on global markets through export subsidies. These export subsidies lowered prices for producers in the rest of the world and represented unfair competition with farmers, particularly in developing countries.</p><p> </p><p>However, over time the CAP has reformed and negative impacts on producers in the rest of the world have been reduced. In the 1980s, export subsidies accounted for around one-third of the CAP budget, but during the last CAP period they represented only around one per cent of the CAP budget. Furthermore, the EU, along with other developed countries, recently committed to eliminating all export subsidies by 2020 as part of the February World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement in Nairobi.</p><p> </p><p>The EU also grants tariff-free access to its market to Least Developed Countries through the ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) agreement. Many of the countries covered by this agreement are in Africa.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/04/2016 09:58:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall