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1083519

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date	07/03/2019
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	Food: Imports
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 he has made of the implications for food imports from the US of the United States - European Union Negotiations: Summary of Specific Negotiating Objectives, published by the Office of the United States Trade representative in February 2019.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	229717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the publication of the United States - European Union Negotiations: Summary of Specific Negotiating Objectives, and the more recent publication of Specific Negotiating Objectives for the UK. These publications are of course important, but do not change the Government’s view that any future trade deal must work for UK consumers, farmers and businesses.</p><p>The Government has made it clear that we will not water down our food or animal welfare standards in pursuit of any trade deal. Existing food standards on issues such as chlorinated chicken will come across through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. For hormone treated beef the UK has transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC into UK law, which prohibits the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported products. This will continue when we leave the EU.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/03/2019 12:09:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1083571

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Consultation
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 many consultations by his Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	229742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>All public government consultations are uploaded onto GOV.UK where one can filter consultations by many criteria, including department, official document status and date of publication. As of 12 March 2019 Defra had:</p><p>a) 9 open public consultations,</p><p>b) 14 consultations closed awaiting a government response; and</p><p>c) 116 consultations published in total from 1 January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/03/2019 12:11:13 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1083718

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Pigs: Bovine Tuberculosis
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 many TB tests on pigs have returned a negative result after a primary inconclusive test result in England in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	229700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>We have interpreted the term ‘inconclusive test result’ as suspect pig slaughterhouse cases, tested in abattoirs when TB-like lesions are identified. For these ‘inconclusive’ cases, post mortem samples have been taken and processed for bacteriological isolation of Mycobacterium bovis <em>(M. bovis).</em></p><p>This information is available under the periodical statistics on Gov.UK:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/other-tb-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/other-tb-statistics</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total individual animal specimens submitted for post-mortem examination</p></td><td><p><em>of which:- </em>animal specimens where culturing was not attempted</p></td><td><p>Animal specimens which underwent laboratory culture</p></td><td><p><em>of which:-</em> animal specimens with culture results pending at end of period</p></td><td><p><em>of which:-</em> animal specimens that were culture positive for <em>M. Bovis</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>272</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>272</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>191</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q1-Q3 2018</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/03/2019 11:50:37 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1083719

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Pigs: Bovine Tuberculosis
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 average time taken is from the date of a first sample to a final test result in TB tests on pigs in England for each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	229701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The average time to obtain results from growing cultures in the laboratory from samples taken from pigs can vary between 42 and 98 days.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><strong> Animals</strong></td><td><strong>Average Days</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2013</strong></td><td>73</td><td>81</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2014</strong></td><td>68</td><td>111</td></tr><tr><td><strong> 2015</strong></td><td>65</td><td>93</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2016</strong></td><td>104</td><td>93</td></tr><tr><td><strong> 2017</strong></td><td>108</td><td>88</td></tr><tr><td><strong> 2018</strong></td><td>144</td><td>92</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>APHA’s laboratory IT system does not hold the date the sample was taken. The data provided above has been calculated using the date when the samples were received at the APHA laboratory. This data excludes any incomplete submissions or those currently pending.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/03/2019 11:38:16 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight