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1191978

registered interest
date	30/04/2020
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	Livestock: Hormone Treatments
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 5 March (HL1872), why they have adopted the EU's legislation on the use of growth hormones in food production; and what caused the change in policy held by previous governments on that legislation within the Council of European Agricultural Ministers.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL3775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2020 answer text <p>As a Member State, the UK transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC (as amended) into domestic law ‘Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015', with similar legislation for Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The law reflects UK Government policy on the use of growth hormones in food production and remains in force now we have left the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is committed to maintaining our current high food safety and animal welfare standards and these protections will continue now we have left the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 15/05/2020 10:11:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1189891

registered interest
date	23/04/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Wuhan Institute of Virology: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role played, if any, by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the spread of COVID-19. [T]
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL3402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2020 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the role played, if any, by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the spread of COVID-19.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 20/05/2020 15:56:47 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1180643

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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	Beef
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether beef from hormone-implanted cattle can be identified if there are higher levels of such hormones present in bull beef than beef from hormone-implanted steers.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL1871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>There are prototype analytical methods that give a good indication of whether a substance is naturally occurring. However, these need further refinement before they can be considered suitably robust and reliable for regulatory use.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the UK has transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC (as amended) into national law ‘Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015', with similar legislation for Wales and Northern Ireland. This legislation prohibits the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported products as well as provides for the monitoring of residues of substances. This protection will continue now we have left the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2020 13:50:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1180644

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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	Beef
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether new evidence has appeared since the European Economic Community imposed a ban on sales of hormone-implanted beef in 1989 about the safety of such beef; and if so, (1) whether that evidence has changed the UK's view that the practice of hormone implantation is safe, and (2) what is the nature of that evidence.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL1872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>No new evidence in relation to the use of hormones as growth promotors has been reviewed by the UK Government’s independent Veterinary Products Committee since 2007.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC (as amended) into national law ‘Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015', with similar legislation for Wales and Northern Ireland. This legislation prohibits the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported products as well as provides for the monitoring of residues of substances. This protection will continue now we have left the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2020 13:50:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1178128

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Weather: Forecasts
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 Duncan of Springbank on 14 January (HL222), why the Public Weather Service Customer Group's targets each year for the accuracy of forecasts do not include rainfall.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL1583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>The Met Office measures the accuracy of its rainfall forecasts by comparing forecast rainfall accumulation against rainfall estimates from radar and actual rainfall measurements from gauges. The Met Office reports on the accuracy of rainfall forecasts to the Public Weather Service Customer Group (PWSCG). Since 2017, the PWSCG has included verification of the forecast weather symbol as part of this formal forecast accuracy target. This measures how accurate the forecast was in terms of whether it was sunny, cloudy or raining. Since its introduction, this metric has shown that the accuracy of the forecast weather symbol has improved at all forecast time scales.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 26/02/2020 16:19:42 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1178129

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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	Fisheries: Foreign Companies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will list (1) the involvement of overseas companies in UK-based fishing companies, and (2) the percentage of overseas involvement in all the quotas and total allowable catch allocations applied to the UK under the Common Fisheries Policy.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL1584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK’s quota is currently allocated on the basis of Fixed Quota Allocation (FQA) units which are attached to UK vessel licences. These can only be allocated to vessels registered and licensed in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>A decision by a British fisher to sell a licence to, or buy a licence from, another fisher or company is a commercial one, and one for fishers alone to make.</p><p> </p><p>An economic link condition was introduced to UK licences in 1999 to make sure a genuine economic benefit is accrued to the UK from the fishing of UK quota. The Government is considering reform of the economic link condition after the transition period as part of the development of our future fisheries management arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The FQA Register is a list of fishing vessel licences, the FQA units linked to them and the owners. The FQA Register can be found online at: <a href="http://www.fqaregister.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.fqaregister.service.gov.uk</a></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 26/02/2020 17:45:00 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1169646

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Expenditure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the levels of defence spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (1) currently spent by members of NATO, and (2) spent by each member of NATO at the time of the 2014 Wales NATO summit.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>Please see the table below for levels of defence spending by % of GDP currently spent by members of NATO, and spent by each member of NATO at the time of the 2014 Wales NATO summit.</p><p> </p><p>This information is according to the NATO press release (COMMUNIQUE PR/CP(2019)123) ‘Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2013-2019)’ published on 29 November 2019.</p><p> </p><p>https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_11/20191129_pr-2019-123-en.pdf</p><p> </p><p><strong>Defence expenditures as per cent of GDP - Based on 2015 prices and exchange rates</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Nation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Defence expenditure as a % of GDP 2014 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Defence expenditure as a % of GDP 2019e (current) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Albania</p></td><td><p>1.35</p></td><td><p>1.26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>0.98</p></td><td><p>0.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bulgaria*</p></td><td><p>1.32</p></td><td><p>3.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canada</p></td><td><p>1.01</p></td><td><p>1.31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croatia</p></td><td><p>1.84</p></td><td><p>1.68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Czech Republic</p></td><td><p>0.95</p></td><td><p>1.19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>1.15</p></td><td><p>1.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>1.93</p></td><td><p>2.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>1.82</p></td><td><p>1.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>1.18</p></td><td><p>1.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greece</p></td><td><p>2.21</p></td><td><p>2.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hungary</p></td><td><p>0.86</p></td><td><p>1.21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>1.14</p></td><td><p>1.22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>0.94</p></td><td><p>2.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>0.88</p></td><td><p>2.03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luxembourg</p></td><td><p>0.38</p></td><td><p>0.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Montenegro</p></td><td><p>1.50</p></td><td><p>1.66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Netherlands</p></td><td><p>1.15</p></td><td><p>1.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norway</p></td><td><p>1.55</p></td><td><p>1.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>1.85</p></td><td><p>2.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>1.31</p></td><td><p>1.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>1.35</p></td><td><p>2.04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovak Republic</p></td><td><p>0.99</p></td><td><p>1.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovenia</p></td><td><p>0.97</p></td><td><p>1.04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>0.92</p></td><td><p>0.92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turkey</p></td><td><p>1.45</p></td><td><p>1.89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>2.16</p></td><td><p>2.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United States</p></td><td><p>3.73</p></td><td><p>3.42</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Defence Expenditure does not include pensions.</p><p>e - Figures for 2019 are estimates</p><p> </p><p>According to NATO’s latest spending figures, the UK’s Defence spending has increased year-on-year since 2017.</p><p> </p><p>When looking at Defence spending, it is not appropriate to compare ‘like for like’ because the nature of Defence spending changes over time.</p><p> </p><p>Defence spending is about assessing the threats we face and ensuring that we have the capabilities necessary to deal with them.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 22/01/2020 14:48:45 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1169647

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Weather: Forecasts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they monitor the accuracy of weather forecasts issued by the Meteorological Office; and whether the accuracy of forecasts has (1) increased, (2) decreased, or (3) remained the same during the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The core task of the Met Office is to deliver the Public Weather Service (PWS). The PWS Customer Group (PWSCG), which has an independent chair responsible to the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, monitors the delivery of the PWS against agreed performance indicators and targets, including the accuracy of public facing forecasts.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last 5 years, the PWSCG has set targets each year for the accuracy of forecasts for maximum and minimum temperature, 3 hourly temperature, wind speed and wind direction at days 1, 3, and 5 ahead. During this period the accuracy of all these forecasts has increased.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Met Office has a performance indicator that compares the accuracy of its global forecast model against other global modelling centres to demonstrate that it is maintaining its position in global forecast accuracy. Over the last 5 years the Met Office has maintained its position as the leading national meteorological service.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 14/01/2020 15:05:24 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1141928

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Chemical Weapons: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that traces of Novichok nerve agents were discovered in the London accommodation used by the two Russian suspects in the attacks in Salisbury in March 2018.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL17472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2019 answer text <p>On 5th September 2018, the former Prime Minister updated the House of Commons on the investigation into the two suspects involved in the Salisbury attack. The Prime Minister confirmed that traces of Novichok were found at the City Stay Hotel in Bow Road, east London, where the suspects stayed. This statement was repeated in the House of Lords on the same day by the Leader of the House of Lords. This can be found in Hansard Vol 792, col.1799 <a href="http://bit.ly/2ycrsCk." target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2ycrsCk. </a></p><p>The Chief Medical Officer made it clear in her statement on the 5th September 2018 that the room was only allowed back into use after experts deemed it to be safe.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/08/2019 14:45:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Statement - Sailsbury.docx title Statement - Sailsbury
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1139572

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Goldie on 2 July (HL Deb, col 1344), what representations they have made to the government of China with regard to the statement by the Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal that “it replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London in the highest appellate court in Hong Kong after 30 June 1997”.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL17219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Prior to the handover in 1997, the British Government had detailed discussions with the Chinese Government related to the establishment of a Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. I am not aware of any specific representations made by the British Government to the Chinese Government about a statement made by the Court of Final Appeal.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 31/07/2019 13:56:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling