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1243634

registered interest
date	15/10/2020
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	Agriculture: Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to promote UK agricultural produce abroad.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Simon Baynes
uin	907595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>We work in tandem with the Department for International Trade to open new markets and secure export opportunities for our farmers and food producers. Our Food is GREAT campaign builds demand, drives awareness and increases positive perceptions of UK food and drink products in key overseas markets. Furthermore, the ‘bounce-back’ package of trade support and promotion measures announced in June will continue to help our food and drink businesses grow their exports.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 15/10/2020 17:05:16 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes

1243635

registered interest
date	15/10/2020
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	Zoos Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to help ensure that zoos and aquariums affected by covid-19 can access the Zoos Support Fund.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	907597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The £14 million Zoos Support Fund ended and has been replaced by the £100 million Zoo Animals Fund. To make this fund even more accessible, we have expanded the eligibility criteria so that grant payments to zoos begin when they reach their final 12 weeks of financial reserves, rather than six weeks, and so that zoos can apply for funding at any time before reaching this 12 week point to help with their business planning. Defra officials have been engaging regularly with larger zoos to understand their concerns and will continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 15/10/2020 16:51:19 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1243637

registered interest
date	15/10/2020
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	Horses: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce the practice of horse tethering.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	907600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>People who tether their horses inappropriately risk causing their animals distress and suffering and could be liable to prosecution for offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The statutory Code of Practice for the Welfare of Horses, Ponies, Donkeys and their Hybrids provides keepers with information on how and when tethering may be used. We remain committed to tackling the issue of inappropriate horse tethering through effective partnership working, enforcement and dissemination of best practice.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 15/10/2020 17:04:34 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1242838

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
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: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2020 to Question 97481 on Animals: Exports, if he will make it his policy to ban all exports of live animals for slaughter.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	102700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The Farm Animal Welfare Committee has reported to us on animal welfare issues concerning live exports and noted that animals should only be transported if absolutely necessary. We are carefully considering the report and recommendations in terms of what they mean for ending excessively long journeys. We intend to launch a consultation on how we deliver on our manifesto commitment later this year.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 101997 101998 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:55:47 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1242463

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2020 to Question 97481, when he plans to launch the consultation on a ban on the export of live animals for slaughter.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	101997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The Farm Animal Welfare Committee has reported to us on animal welfare issues concerning live exports and noted that animals should only be transported if absolutely necessary. We are carefully considering the report and recommendations in terms of what they mean for ending excessively long journeys. We intend to launch a consultation on how we deliver on our manifesto commitment later this year.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 101998 102700 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:55:47 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1242465

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2020 to Question 97481 on Animals: Exports, how his Department defines excessively long journeys; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	101998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The Farm Animal Welfare Committee has reported to us on animal welfare issues concerning live exports and noted that animals should only be transported if absolutely necessary. We are carefully considering the report and recommendations in terms of what they mean for ending excessively long journeys. We intend to launch a consultation on how we deliver on our manifesto commitment later this year.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 101997 102700 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:55:47 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1242510

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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	Recreation Spaces: Urban Areas
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 potential effect of increasing green public spaces in urban areas on (a)(i) physical and (ii) mental health and (b) the environment.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	102094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>There is good and growing evidence that connecting people with green space can deliver positive health outcomes through the prevention of mental ill-health, as an alternative option for managing mild to moderate mental health conditions and in some cases supporting the management of more severe conditions. It can also deliver important benefits for recreation, physical health, social well-being and employment.</p><p> </p><p>Green social prescribing links people to nature-based interventions and activities. We have recently been awarded £4.27 million from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund to deliver a joint project with the Department of Health and Social Care, Natural England, NHS England, Public Health England and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to test green social prescribing in four pilot locations, run national experimental work to understand its scalability and deliver a robust project evaluation. The project will test how to increase use and connectivity to green social prescribing services in order to improve mental health outcomes, reduce health inequalities, reduce demand on the health and social care system, and develop best practice in making local systems more resilient and accessible.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England and Public Health England have published a <a href="http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/4799558023643136" target="_blank">Rapid Scoping Review of Health and Wellbeing Evidence</a> for the National Framework of Green Infrastructure Standards, which was undertaken by the University of Exeter.</p><p> </p><p>Green Infrastructure includes greenspace such as parks and woodlands but also other environmental features such as street trees, hedgerows and green walls and roofs. It also includes blue infrastructure, such as canals, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and their borders. Natural England is working with Defra and other partners and stakeholders to develop a National Framework of Green Infrastructure Standards. This will show what good green infrastructure looks like and help all local authorities, developers and communities to improve provision in their area.</p><p> </p><p>Well-designed and managed green public spaces and other green infrastructure provide multiple benefits at a range of scales. They can contribute to biodiversity recovery, sequester carbon, absorb surface water, cleanse pollutants, absorb noise and reduce high temperatures.</p><p> </p><p>Defra and Natural England have made use of a wide body of evidence to understand the potential environmental effects of increasing green infrastructure in urban areas.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics has produced the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/uknaturalcapital/urbanaccounts" target="_blank">UK Natural Capital: Urban Accounts</a> in partnership with Defra, which quantify the value of cooling, removal of air pollution, carbon removal, noise mitigation and recreation from urban green space.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 15/10/2020 16:59:13 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1242599

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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	Bus Services: Air Pollution
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the potential for the National Bus Strategy to deliver improved air quality and carbon emissions.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	102047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>My department works closely with the Department for Transport through our shared Joint Air Quality Unit. As a result, officials in both departments have regular engagement to ensure evolving bus policy considers the potential impacts on air quality. The Joint Air Quality Unit also engages directly with the bus sector to understand how to reduce emissions from buses in those areas currently exceeding legal NO<sub>2</sub> limits, particularly through the ongoing delivery of Government-funded retrofit schemes to fit technologies to buses to reduce their tailpipe emissions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 15/10/2020 11:34:44 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1242037

registered interest
date	09/10/2020
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	Food: Sugar
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 discussions with Public Health England on the voluntary target of a 20 per cent reduction in the sugar content of foods on sale to the public.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	101249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) oversees the voluntary sugar reduction programme on behalf of the Government, as set out in all parts of the childhood obesity plan. PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Government department responsible for nutrition policy and the Government’s obesity strategy.</p><p> </p><p>PHE published the third progress report for the sugar reduction programme on 7 October 2020. This showed a 3.0% reduction in overall average sugar per 100g for retailers and manufacturer branded food products. Larger reductions were seen in some categories, but increased sales of higher sugar categories reduced the impact of these reductions. The eating out of home sector saw hardly any change in average sugar levels. The 2021 progress report will provide a fourth assessment towards the 20% reduction ambition.</p><p> </p><p>DHSC will hold discussions with PHE on the sugar reduction programme and the voluntary ambition. Defra will work with other Government departments and agencies including PHE to respond to recommendations in Part Two of the forthcoming National Food Strategy relating to healthy eating.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 14/10/2020 14:41:49 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1241824

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
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	Animals: Exports
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 he is taking to end the export of live animals for consumption.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	101026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given to the Rt Hon Member for Chipping Barnet on 11 June 2020, PQ UIN 55899.</p><p> </p><p>[<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-06-08/55899" target="_blank">questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-06-08/55899</a>]</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 13/10/2020 12:57:29 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion