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416929

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Expert Committee on Pesticides has not published the minutes of its meeting of 20 May; and what assessment they have made of whether, by not publishing those minutes, the Committee has breached its terms of reference.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Parminter
	uin	HL1849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>The minutes of the meeting of the 20 May have been published. They were published on 23 July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 22/09/2015 09:38:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4178 label Biography information for Baroness Parminter

416930

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Oilseed Rape: Neonicotinoids
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of recent field trials of rape seed treated with neonicotinoids and the impact of neonicotinoids on bumblebee populations.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Parminter
	uin	HL1850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Commission has begun a review of the science relating to neonicotinoids and bees. This will include effects on bees from seed treatment and granule uses of the restricted neonicotinoids on any crop. The Government will contribute fully to this review and will base its view on future regulation of neonicotinoids on all the available scientific evidence. We are aware that there have been a number of new studies since 2013. Initial results from a large field trial being carried out by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to look at honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees are expected later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK Expert Committee on Pesticides has the task of advising Ministers on issues relating to the authorisation of pesticides. It considered recent research on neonicotinoids and pollinators, including the recent report by Rundlöf et al, at its May 2015 meeting. The detailed record of the meeting states that the Committee “agreed that this was a complex and evolving issue that required careful judgement, based on a weight of evidence approach”. The Committee agreed to come back to the issue regularly at future meetings.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 15/09/2015 11:23:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4178 label Biography information for Baroness Parminter

416931

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Oilseed Rape: Neonicotinoids
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what date they took the decision to grant an emergency application from the National Farmers’ Union to use neonicotinoid seed treatments in the autumn of 2015; when this decision was announced; and, if there was a gap between the date of decision and date of announcement, what was the reason for the delay.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Parminter
	uin	HL1851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The decision was taken on 21 July and was communicated to the applicant on 22 July. Details of pesticide authorisations issued are placed on the Health and Safety Executive website. These authorisations were issued to the National Farmers’ Union on 24 July and were placed on the website on the same day.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 15/09/2015 12:18:07 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4178 label Biography information for Baroness Parminter

416932

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Expert Committee on Pesticides has not published the agenda for its meeting on 7 July and the minutes of its meeting on 20 May; and what involvement they had, if any, in the decision not to publish those documents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Strasburger
	uin	HL1852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Expert Committee on Pesticides published the agenda for the 7 July meeting and the minutes of its meeting of 20 May on 23 July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 17/09/2015 16:14:23 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4204 label Biography information for Lord Strasburger

416933

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Scientific Advisers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what grounds scientific advisory committees may choose not to publish their agendas and minutes; and what assessment they have made of whether such grounds comply with the need for transparency set out in the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Strasburger
	uin	HL1853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to openness and transparency, in particular in relation to scientific advice. The Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees sets out principles upon which departments and SACs set their own publication policy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defra’s Scientific Advisory Council, and Scientific Advisory Committees, may choose not to publish their agendas or minutes when they relate to:</p><p> </p><p>· confidential information;</p><p> </p><p>· there is non-disclosure associated with the meeting subject material;</p><p> </p><p>· Government Security Classified documents; or</p><p> </p><p>· commercially sensitive information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This decision to do so is assessed against the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees. A publicly available explanation is provided when Committees decide not to publish minutes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In assessing whether grounds for not publishing comply with the Code of Practice’s need for transparency, the committee considers:</p><p> </p><p>· public interest in the subject material;</p><p> </p><p>· the commercial impact should the material be published;</p><p> </p><p>· the timing of the material be published; and</p><p> </p><p>· the policy impact, for example, in relation to UK negotiations with another country.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 16/09/2015 12:40:18 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4204 label Biography information for Lord Strasburger

416934

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Marketing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many times this year the Department for Work and Pensions has published invented quotes and stock images purporting to be from and of real benefits claimants; and to what extent other government departments engage in similar practices.
	tabling member printed	Lord Strasburger
	uin	HL1854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 14/09/2015 13:45:01 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4204 label Biography information for Lord Strasburger

416935

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Network Rail: Planning Permission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce conditions that they have imposed upon Network Rail when approving a planning application.
	tabling member printed	Lord Krebs
	uin	HL1855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL1856 HL1857 HL1858 HL1859 HL1860 question first answered 21/09/2015 15:09:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3736 label Biography information for Lord Krebs

416936

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Network Rail: Planning Permission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce speed restrictions they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
	tabling member printed	Lord Krebs
	uin	HL1856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL1855 HL1857 HL1858 HL1859 HL1860 question first answered 21/09/2015 15:09:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3736 label Biography information for Lord Krebs

416937

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Network Rail: Planning Permission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce sound and vibration monitoring requirements they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
	tabling member printed	Lord Krebs
	uin	HL1857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL1855 HL1856 HL1858 HL1859 HL1860 question first answered 21/09/2015 15:09:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3736 label Biography information for Lord Krebs

416938

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Network Rail: Planning Permission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce a requirement to install rail dampers to reduce noise that they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
	tabling member printed	Lord Krebs
	uin	HL1858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL1855 HL1856 HL1857 HL1859 HL1860 question first answered 21/09/2015 15:09:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3736 label Biography information for Lord Krebs