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833627

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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	Non-native Species
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to invasive non-native species, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions, for example, risk assessments and diagnostics, (4) response functions, including control activities, and (5) research.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £3.8m on invasive non-native species in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£2.2m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£1.6m).</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Biosecurity and control of invasive non-native species are devolved matters.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In England in 2016/17 the government spent an estimated total of £922,000 on biosecurity measures relating to invasive non-native species.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The overall cost can be apportioned as £145,000 for policy functions, £90,000 on risk analysis, £335,000 for early warning and rapid response measures, £210,000 on coordination, £80,000 on communication and awareness raising activities, and £62,000 on research.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/02/2018 13:51:04 question first ministerially corrected 21/02/2018 18:49:37 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble previous answer version 39616 answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

833629

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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	Plants: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to plant diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions, for example, risk assessments and diagnostics, (4) response functions, including control activities, and (5) research.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £13.2m on plant and tree diseases in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£10.1m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£3.1m).</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/02/2018 13:51:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

833630

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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	Trees: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to tree diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions, for example, risk assessments and diagnostics, (4) response functions, including control activities, and (5) research.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £13.2m on plant and tree diseases in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£10.1m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£3.1m).</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/02/2018 14:59:47 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

833631

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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 and Plants: Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the annual cost to the English economy from (1) animal diseases, (2) bee diseases, (3) fish diseases, (4) invasive non-native species, (5) plant diseases, and (6) tree diseases.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Data on all these matters are not held centrally. Collation of this information would involve analysts across different organisations (Defra, APHA, Environment Agency, Fera and the Forestry Commission) analysing and collating data stored in different formats for a wide range of pests and diseases. As a result, we are not able to provide the information within the given timeframe.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/02/2018 16:18:58 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

832891

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to animal diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions (for example, risk assessments and diagnostics), (4) response functions (including control activities), (5) research, and (6) total budget.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £200m on animal diseases in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£117m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£83m).</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/02/2018 14:39:20 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

832892

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Bees: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to bee diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions (for example, risk assessments and diagnostics), (4) response functions (including control activities), (5) research, and (6) total budget.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £2.8m on bee diseases in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£1.6m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£1.2m).</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/02/2018 14:49:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

832893

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Fish: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to fish diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions (for example, risk assessments and diagnostics), (4) response functions (including control activities), (5) research, and (6) total budget.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>Data on government spending cannot be broken down against these categories for biosecurity measures relating to fish diseases and pests. However, the spend on aquatic animal health in the financial year 2016–17, which includes disease controls and biosecurity measures for fish and other aquatic animals in England and Wales, is as follows:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Policy functions – £147,765, this includes salary rates and variable and fixed overheads.</p></li><li><p>Inspectorate functions, diagnostics and response functions - £2,080,917.</p></li><li><p>Technical support functions (e.g. epidemiology, risk assessments, test exercise) - £142,858.</p></li><li><p>Response function – these is included in (2) inspectorate functions.</p></li><li><p>Research - £730,768.</p></li><li><p>Total - £3,102,308.</p><p> </p><p>Aquatic animal health is a devolved policy. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate aquatic animal health budgets which are not covered in the figures above.</p></li></ol> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/02/2018 13:50:16 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

803046

registered interest
date	08/12/2017
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	Non-native Species
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take in response to the findings of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 that new and emerging invasive non-native species are one of six urgent climate change risks for the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL4011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK has long recognised the threats posed by invasive non-native species. In 2008, we published a comprehensive Great Britain Non-native Species Strategy designed to tackle these threats, the first of its kind in Europe.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our strategy, we carry out horizon-scanning for new invasive non-native species likely to pose a significant risk if they arrive in the UK. These threats are formal assessments using a comprehensive risk framework that takes climate change into account. We will be carrying the next horizon scanning exercise in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We also carry out risk analysis for individual species which specifically takes the potential impacts from climate change into account.</p><p> </p><p>We have set up a Great Britain working group to consider research needs relating to invasive non-native species, which includes the impacts from climate change.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/12/2017 13:58:53 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

802519

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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 and Plants: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was spent in each of the past ten years on biosecurity in England in relation to (1) animal health, (2) bee health, (3) fish health, (4) invasive non-native species, (5) plant health, and (6) tree health, broken down by (a) policy functions, (b) inspectorate functions, (c) technical support functions, (d) response and control functions, and (e) research.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Data on all these matters are not held centrally. Collation of this information would involve finance teams across five different organisations (Defra, APHA, Environment Agency, Fera and the Forestry Commission) analysing, collating and reconciling ten years of financial data stored in different formats and IT platforms. As a result, we are not able to provide the information within the given timeframe.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL3982 question first answered 21/12/2017 15:35:15 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

802520

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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 and Plants: Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the annual cost to the economy in each of the past ten years of (1) animal diseases, (2) bee diseases, (3) fish diseases, (4) invasive non-native species, (5) plant diseases, and (6) tree diseases, in England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Data on all these matters are not held centrally. Collation of this information would involve finance teams across five different organisations (Defra, APHA, Environment Agency, Fera and the Forestry Commission) analysing, collating and reconciling ten years of financial data stored in different formats and IT platforms. As a result, we are not able to provide the information within the given timeframe.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL3981 question first answered 21/12/2017 15:35:15 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern