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1088231

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date	13/03/2019
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: South West
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 herds were tested for bovine tuberculosis in the badger cull areas of (a) Gloucestershire area 01, (b) Somerset area 02 and (c) Dorset area 03 in each of the calendar years from 2010 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	231888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>A report providing analysis of TB incidence in cattle for the licensed badger control areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset, which began in 2013, and Dorset, which began in 2015, has been published. This report includes the number of herds in each of the cull areas. These herds have remained in an annual testing area since 2010, which means they are required to be skin tested each year. Any herd with overdue testing will have been put under movement restrictions until tested with negative results. Some herds will have been tested more than once a year if they have had their official TB-free status suspended or withdrawn, and any licenced finishing units may be exempt from skin testing but subject to slaughterhouse surveillance. The data is published in the below link and will be updated in due course.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-incidence-of-tb-in-cattle-in-licenced-badger-control-areas-in-2013-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-incidence-of-tb-in-cattle-in-licenced-badger-control-areas-in-2013-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/03/2019 15:53:49 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1088259

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Coastal Areas: Sea Level
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 risk to those coastal areas likely to be worst affected by rising sea levels.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	231927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has strong national policies on coastal management that actively integrate adaptation to climate change. We defend the coast where it is sustainable and affordable to do so, and let it function naturally in areas where it is not.</p><p> </p><p>UK Climate Predictions 2018 (UKCP18) published in November show that sea levels around the UK will continue to rise to the year 2100 under all emission pathways, with increases generally greater in the south than in the north. We can continue to expect increases in extreme coastal water levels driven mainly by increases in mean sea level rise. Over the next six months, the Environment Agency (EA) will be undertaking work to better understand the implications of UKCP18 for flood and coastal erosion activities.</p><p> </p><p>In England, coastal authorities have developed a network of Shoreline Management Plans covering the entire coast of England. These plans provide a high level, long term policy framework to manage coastal change over three time horizons: 20, 50 and 100 years. The EA is now working with those coastal authorities to refresh the plans, to ensure that they are up to date and using the latest evidence.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/03/2019 10:37:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1088260

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold a public consultation on changes to the (a) guidance and (b) principles related to the regulation of pesticides in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, any future changes would follow the Cabinet Office guidance on consultation principles. This would entail public consultation if a substantive policy change was proposed. Changes to guidance could conceivably have significant or very minor effects, so a judgement would be needed if public consultation was warranted based on the specific circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/03/2019 17:44:00 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088262

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Expert Committee On Pesticides
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will increase the (a) capacity and (b) operating budget of the Expert Committee on Pesticides in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 will ensure the plant protection products regime can operate in a national context, if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement. These Regulations contain provisions enabling the UK competent authorities to take independent scientific advice, in areas where this was previously provided by the European Food Safety Authority in the EU regime. This includes the ability to seek independent scientific advice as part of the process for approving active substances used in plant protection products. Independent scientific advice would be sought from Defra’s existing Expert Committee on Pesticides from the day we leave the EU, and we would continue to build on these arrangements in the future.</p><p> </p><p>We have been working closely with the Expert Committee on Pesticides and its secretariat within the Health and Safety Executive to assess the Committee’s capacity in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal and to ensure that plans are in place to enable it to access both the scientific advise and resourcing it would need to deliver this expanded role.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231976 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:47:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088264

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 his Department is taking to include independent scientific advice within the authorisation process for active substances used in plant protection products in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 will ensure the plant protection products regime can operate in a national context, if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement. These Regulations contain provisions enabling the UK competent authorities to take independent scientific advice, in areas where this was previously provided by the European Food Safety Authority in the EU regime. This includes the ability to seek independent scientific advice as part of the process for approving active substances used in plant protection products. Independent scientific advice would be sought from Defra’s existing Expert Committee on Pesticides from the day we leave the EU, and we would continue to build on these arrangements in the future.</p><p> </p><p>We have been working closely with the Expert Committee on Pesticides and its secretariat within the Health and Safety Executive to assess the Committee’s capacity in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal and to ensure that plans are in place to enable it to access both the scientific advise and resourcing it would need to deliver this expanded role.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231975 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:47:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088265

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 his Department has taken to ensure that the UK's future pesticide regime will provide equal levels of accountability and scrutiny to the EU pesticide regime in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the Government will retain the current EU regulations on plant protection products with only such changes as are required so that the regime can operate sensibly in a national context. Ministers will be more accountable for decision making than at present as this will be their direct responsibility (along with the devolved administrations), rather than being subject to voting by all EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>There will also continue to be effective scrutiny. For example, there will be a formal public consultation process on each active substance with full supporting documentation such as the draft assessment report published, in the same way as there is under the EU regime. In addition to our national regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we have put arrangements in place to ensure that we have access to independent scientific advice from exit day from the Expert Committee on Pesticides and we will continue to build on these arrangements in future. HSE will publish its assessment reports online (less any confidential data). The Expert Committee on Pesticides also routinely publishes its minutes online so its advice will be open and transparent.</p><p> </p><p>The powers to extend active substance approvals and product authorisations will be retained and repatriated to national level, with no changes to the provisions setting out how they can be used. These powers will therefore continue to be available under the national regime to be used where necessary, as the European Commission has done routinely under the current EU regime. It would clearly be inappropriate to attempt to extend approvals and authorisations indefinitely.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231978 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:53:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088267

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Pesticides: Regulation
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 his Department has taken to ensure that renewals for approvals of (a) active substances used in plant protection products and (b) plant protection products cannot be extended indefinitely by the relevant public bodies in the event that UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	231978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>If the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, the Government will retain the current EU regulations on plant protection products with only such changes as are required so that the regime can operate sensibly in a national context. Ministers will be more accountable for decision making than at present as this will be their direct responsibility (along with the devolved administrations), rather than being subject to voting by all EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>There will also continue to be effective scrutiny. For example, there will be a formal public consultation process on each active substance with full supporting documentation such as the draft assessment report published, in the same way as there is under the EU regime. In addition to our national regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we have put arrangements in place to ensure that we have access to independent scientific advice from exit day from the Expert Committee on Pesticides and we will continue to build on these arrangements in future. HSE will publish its assessment reports online (less any confidential data). The Expert Committee on Pesticides also routinely publishes its minutes online so its advice will be open and transparent.</p><p> </p><p>The powers to extend active substance approvals and product authorisations will be retained and repatriated to national level, with no changes to the provisions setting out how they can be used. These powers will therefore continue to be available under the national regime to be used where necessary, as the European Commission has done routinely under the current EU regime. It would clearly be inappropriate to attempt to extend approvals and authorisations indefinitely.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 231977 question first answered 21/03/2019 17:53:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1088467

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Shellfish: 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, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) the sentience of decapod crustaceans and (b) their capability to feel pain; whether decapod crustaceans are included in the definition of animal in the draft sentience Bill; and when he plans to publish the Farm Animal Welfare Council investigation into decapod crustacean sentience.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	231995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of research in relation to the sentience of decapod crustaceans and their ability to feel pain. We are continuing to engage with stakeholders to further refine the Government’s proposals on animal sentience, including which animals are covered by those proposals. The Farm Animal Welfare Committee’s advice on the definition of sentience will be published soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/03/2019 17:42:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1088573

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Poultry: Slaughterhouses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether chickens are still being killed commercially by electrocution, upside down, on a conveyer belt; if not, how they are killed commercially; and if so, what assessment they have made of the use of that method on the spread of campylobacter.
tabling member printed	Lord McColl of Dulwich
uin	HL14533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>A 2018 survey conducted by the Food Standards Agency on all slaughter methods used in approved slaughterhouses in England and Wales showed that during the survey period around 70% of broiler chickens were gas stunned and around 20% were stunned in an electrical water bath. The results of the survey can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/farm-animals-survey-of-slaughter-methods-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/farm-animals-survey-of-slaughter-methods-2018</a>.</p><p>The particular features of permitted stunning methods are based assessments by the EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of the scientific evidence relating to welfare at slaughter. In terms of food safety, all permitted stunning and slaughter methods have to meet the same official controls and requirements on the spread of campylobacter.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 28/03/2019 16:07:14 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1892 label Biography information for Lord McColl of Dulwich

1088582

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Air Pollution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to secure agreements with EU countries to work on reducing levels of air pollution after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL14542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK remains a signatory to the 1979 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and will continue to be at the forefront of international action and cooperation to tackle transboundary air pollution alongside the EU.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Air quality targets agreed at an EU level have already been given effect in domestic law to ensure that they continue to have effect in the UK. This includes a continued commitment to the Best Available Technique approach to regulating industrial emissions.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 26/03/2019 17:02:09 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick