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856928

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
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 plans his Department has to allocate funding to the (a) National Wildlife Crime Unit and (b) CITES Border Force team at Heathrow, to prevent the illegal trade in wildlife after 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Defra, together with the Home Office, have committed funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) until 2019/20. Decisions on funding and departmental allocations beyond 2020 will be taken at the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 12:26:25 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856931

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the amended Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) regulations will (a) be published and (b) come into force.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The consolidated regulations, Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations 2018, will be laid before Parliament this spring. Subject to parliamentary clearance the regulations will come into force before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 12:31:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856932

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Caviar
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 his Department has made of the effectiveness of the civil sanctions in the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 as a deterrent to people selling caviar illegally.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 contain criminal penalties to address offences. These regulations are being revised to consolidate a number of amendments and to bring in new offences including some related to the caviar trade.</p><p>In the case of new offences related to mixing, marking, labelling and record keeping for caviar, the Government considers a civil sanction is a proportionate response. Existing offences relating to the trade in caviar will continue to be enforced through criminal sanctions.</p><p><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/03/2018 17:37:36 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856933

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
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 cybercrime is planned to be an agenda item at the October 2018 London conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Defra is preparing for the London 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade conference. This includes working closely with representatives from conservation organisations, enforcement agencies and the business sector.</p><p> </p><p>I cannot confirm details of individual sessions and speakers because the agenda for the conference has not yet been set.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 131446 131447 question first answered 14/03/2018 12:09:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856934

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
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 representatives of (a) online marketplaces and (b) social media companies will be invited to the October 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade conference.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Defra is preparing for the London 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade conference. This includes working closely with representatives from conservation organisations, enforcement agencies and the business sector.</p><p> </p><p>I cannot confirm details of individual sessions and speakers because the agenda for the conference has not yet been set.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 131445 131447 question first answered 14/03/2018 12:09:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856935

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
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 role (a) NGOs (b) enforcement agencies and (c) conservation organisations will play at the October 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade conference; and whether speaking slots will be made available for them.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Defra is preparing for the London 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade conference. This includes working closely with representatives from conservation organisations, enforcement agencies and the business sector.</p><p> </p><p>I cannot confirm details of individual sessions and speakers because the agenda for the conference has not yet been set.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 131445 131446 question first answered 14/03/2018 12:09:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856936

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Ivory: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to publish its response to the consultation on banning UK sales of ivory; and what assessment he has made of the time-scale for introducing a proposed ban.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>We received over 70,000 responses to our consultation on banning sales of ivory in the UK, of which over 30,000 arrived in the final week. Many of the responses were very detailed and all must be carefully analysed to help inform our final policy. We will publish our response to the consultation shortly, including indications of next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 12:24:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856937

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Ivory: Sales
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 support the proposed EU ivory ban; and whether the Government has responded to the public consultation on ivory trade in the EU, which closed on 8 December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	131449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is leading global efforts to close legal domestic ivory markets that can contribute to poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. The UK does not authorise the sale of, or other commercial trade in, raw elephant ivory of any age. We have recently consulted on proposals to go further and ban all ivory sales in the UK subject to limited exemptions. At the EU Environment Council meeting on 5 March the UK, alongside France, called on the EU and its Member States to ban, as a first step, the commercial trade in raw ivory within the EU as soon as possible.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK supports the European Commission’s guidance, issued in May 2017, which recommended that, as of 1 July 2017, EU Member States should suspend issuing re-export certificates for raw ivory from the EU except in exceptional cases. This is in line with UK policy which has been in place over a decade.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission has recently consulted to gather information and views on ivory trade within the EU to help inform what further steps the EU might take regarding ivory trade. The UK Government has not responded to this public consultation, as in April 2017, we responded to a European Commission questionnaire to EU Member States examining options for possible restrictions on ivory trade in and from the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/03/2018 12:23:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy