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1010274

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Game: Birds
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 mortality rate was for game bird farms in each year from 2010 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	192783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) do not hold information on the mortality rate for game bird farms in each year from 2010 to 2018.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not maintain year on year statistics for game farms.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 22/11/2018 11:50:43 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1010276

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Game: Birds
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 game bird farms have more than (a) 20,000 and (b) 50,000 birds.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	192784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) do not hold accurate or reliable figures on the number of birds on game bird premises.</p><p> </p><p>APHA do not maintain year on year statistics for game farms.</p><p> </p><p>At the time of registration the owner of the birds will normally supply APHA with an estimate of the usual numbers likely to be held on the holding.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 22/11/2018 11:45:27 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1010277

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Game: Birds
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 commission research comparing the welfare of caged game birds with those that are not caged.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	192785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Defra conducted research into gamebird welfare in different rearing systems. The 2010 to 2012 project AW1303 looked at whether cage-based breeding can meet the needs of gamebirds, and if not, to identify best practice. This research found that for pheasants and partridges, providing increased space does not necessarily equate with enhanced welfare.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to this, Defra’s advisory body, the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC), was tasked with considering all aspects of gamebird farming in order to inform future work in this area. This assessment included a range of traditional and more intensive methods of gamebird breeding and rearing, including: breeding partridges in cages; breeding pheasants in grass pens or raised cages; rearing partridges and pheasants in brooder huts with grass pens; and commercial broiler chicken-type sheds with outdoor runs.</p><p> </p><p>In 2008 FAWC published an Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Gamebirds, and its recommendations fed into Defra’s current Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69379/pb13356-game-birds-100720.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69379/pb13356-game-birds-100720.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 22/11/2018 15:37:27 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1002718

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	Birds of Prey: Conservation
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 bring forward legislative proposals on vicarious liability for crimes against birds of prey.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	188753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>All wild birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which provides a powerful framework for the conservation of wild birds, their eggs, nests and habitats.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to introduce vicarious liability in England for offences related to wildlife crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/11/2018 11:09:19 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

994071

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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: Antibiotics
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 16 October 2018 to Question 176052 on animals: antibiotics, whether the legislation the Government plans to bring forward will ban rather than restrict the administration of antibiotics to groups of animals for disease prevention in line with the EU veterinary medicines legislation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	183298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The EU Veterinary Medicine legislation proposals included measures to tighten controls on the use of antibiotics, in particular restrictions on their use for disease prevention.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers have confirmed the Government’s intention to implement restrictions on the preventative use of antibiotics in line with new EU legislation.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/10/2018 18:09:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

983146

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: Antibiotics
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 the Government has plans to ban the preventative use of antibiotics in groups of animals in line with proposals by the EU to introduce such a ban; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	176052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The proposed EU veterinary medicines legislation includes provisions to restrict the use of antibiotics in animals for preventative purposes. The UK has played a key role in the revision of this legislation and supported the Commission’s main aims. The UK Government plans to implement the restrictions on preventative use of antibiotics in line with the EU proposals.</p><p>We will continue to work closely with the veterinary profession, the livestock sectors and other stakeholders in developing, interpreting and implementing policy and legislation for tackling antimicrobial resistance.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2018 13:18:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

967772

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Poultry: 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, how many and what proportion of slaughterhouses in the UK are not compliant with the European Union regulation EC 1099/2009 Annex I on stunning poultry in electric water baths.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	170283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The information that we have received from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) suggests that currently 3 out of the 50 poultry plants in England and Wales are using non Annex 1 water bath stunning parameters for religious slaughter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra and the Welsh Government commissioned the FSA to carry out a survey on our behalf on how animals are sourced, slaughtered and then distributed in England and Wales. We hope to publish the results of that survey shortly. Any further reforms in this area will be considered in light of the FSA survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where stunning is carried out, including for religious slaughter, it must be effective in rendering the animal unconscious and insensible to pain and the animal must remain unconscious and insensible to pain until death. Where animals are not stunned correctly the FSA will take appropriate action to prevent animals from suffering. The legislation in England permits religious slaughter to be carried out by a Muslim or Jewish person for the food of Muslim or Jewish people respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 170284 170285 170286 170287 question first answered 10/09/2018 14:00:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

967773

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Poultry: 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, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of electric waterbaths for stunning poultry that use frequencies outside of the parameters set out in Annex 1 of EC 1099/2009.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	170284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The information that we have received from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) suggests that currently 3 out of the 50 poultry plants in England and Wales are using non Annex 1 water bath stunning parameters for religious slaughter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra and the Welsh Government commissioned the FSA to carry out a survey on our behalf on how animals are sourced, slaughtered and then distributed in England and Wales. We hope to publish the results of that survey shortly. Any further reforms in this area will be considered in light of the FSA survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where stunning is carried out, including for religious slaughter, it must be effective in rendering the animal unconscious and insensible to pain and the animal must remain unconscious and insensible to pain until death. Where animals are not stunned correctly the FSA will take appropriate action to prevent animals from suffering. The legislation in England permits religious slaughter to be carried out by a Muslim or Jewish person for the food of Muslim or Jewish people respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 170283 170285 170286 170287 question first answered 10/09/2018 14:00:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

967774

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Slaughterhouses: 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, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require post-cut stunning for animals that are slaughtered without being pre-stunned.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	170285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The information that we have received from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) suggests that currently 3 out of the 50 poultry plants in England and Wales are using non Annex 1 water bath stunning parameters for religious slaughter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra and the Welsh Government commissioned the FSA to carry out a survey on our behalf on how animals are sourced, slaughtered and then distributed in England and Wales. We hope to publish the results of that survey shortly. Any further reforms in this area will be considered in light of the FSA survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where stunning is carried out, including for religious slaughter, it must be effective in rendering the animal unconscious and insensible to pain and the animal must remain unconscious and insensible to pain until death. Where animals are not stunned correctly the FSA will take appropriate action to prevent animals from suffering. The legislation in England permits religious slaughter to be carried out by a Muslim or Jewish person for the food of Muslim or Jewish people respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 170283 170284 170286 170287 question first answered 10/09/2018 14:00:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

967775

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Meat: Ritual Slaughter
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 bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that the volume supply of non-stun meat meets only the domestic demand of the communities that want to eat it.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	170286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The information that we have received from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) suggests that currently 3 out of the 50 poultry plants in England and Wales are using non Annex 1 water bath stunning parameters for religious slaughter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra and the Welsh Government commissioned the FSA to carry out a survey on our behalf on how animals are sourced, slaughtered and then distributed in England and Wales. We hope to publish the results of that survey shortly. Any further reforms in this area will be considered in light of the FSA survey.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where stunning is carried out, including for religious slaughter, it must be effective in rendering the animal unconscious and insensible to pain and the animal must remain unconscious and insensible to pain until death. Where animals are not stunned correctly the FSA will take appropriate action to prevent animals from suffering. The legislation in England permits religious slaughter to be carried out by a Muslim or Jewish person for the food of Muslim or Jewish people respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 170283 170284 170285 170287 question first answered 10/09/2018 14:00:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy