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1109869

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date	04/04/2019
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	Environment Agency: Rural Payments Agency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Environment Agency computer systems share information with the computer systems of the Rural Payments Agency; and if not, when this might be introduced.
tabling member printed	Lord Colgrain
uin	HL15061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>At present, there are no direct system-to-system data exchanges between Rural Payments Agency and Environment Agency systems. Defra is committed to sharing data internally within the Department, externally across Government and with any interested party. Both the Rural Payments Agency and the Environment Agency publish datasets on the publicly available Defra Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside website, and within the Defra Spatial Repository and Toolkits which are accessible to all Defra Group organisations. Defra also publishes more than 8,000 datasets, which are publicly available under open licence.</p><p> </p><p>However, both organisations have access to the Defra Customer and Land Database (CLAD) which is due to be replaced in 2019 by a system called CLARIS, which will enable the Environment Agency to have access to Rural Payments Agency land data. Additionally, the Rural Payments Agency periodically provides the Environment Agency with a manual extract of data relating to the ownership of land within Nitrate Vulnerable Zones for cross-compliance purposes.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its wider consolidation and upgrade of IT systems the Defra Group is adopting shared IT platforms, for example cloud email services, document management, customer relationship management and identity management platforms. Agency data will coexist within the same physical platforms which may facilitate data sharing where there is a specific purpose for that data to be shared, and this is done in accordance with regulations such as the Data Protection Act and appropriate interagency data sharing agreements.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/04/2019 13:55:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4596 label Biography information for Lord Colgrain

1109872

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Cattle: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many live calves under two months old were exported in each year from 2014 to 2018; and what percentage of the total amount of the calves exported went for slaughter in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL15064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) issues Export Health Certificates (EHC) for animals and products of animal origin. APHA does not record the age of animals when they are exported. The following information is taken from consignments of Bovine animals exported to the EU in 2016, 2017 and 2018 where a consignment included unweaned animals.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 a total of 3786 bovine animals were recorded as being exported on a Journey Log containing unweaned animals</p><p> </p><p>In 2017 a total of 6024 bovine animals were recorded as being exported on a Journey Log containing unweaned animals</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 a total of 5425 bovine animals were recorded as being exported on a Journey Log containing unweaned animals</p><p> </p><p>None of the animals were exported directly for slaughter.</p><p> </p><p>This data includes exports from holdings in England, Scotland and Wales. Movements between Northern Ireland (NI) and The Republic of Ireland (RoI) is a devolved matter, data for this can be requested from DAERA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/04/2019 13:57:34 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1109873

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Sheep: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many live sheep were exported in each year from 2014 to 2018; where those sheep were exported to; and what percentage of the total amount of sheep exported went for slaughter in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL15065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The table for the total number of sheep exported in the years 2014 to 2018, including the destination country and the percentage of sheep exported for slaughter in each year is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Country exported to</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>Percentage of the total number of sheep exported went for slaughter</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>52886</p></td><td><p>4.90%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>6216</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Czech Republic</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>26357</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>1804</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Guernsey</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>isle of Man</p></td><td><p>668</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>332</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Malta</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>8171</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>8927</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>40824</p></td><td><p>8.10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2696</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>23858</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>562</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Guernsey</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>770</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>7381</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>4994</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>66165</p></td><td><p>10.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>4319</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Finland</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>20225</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>15028</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Guernsey</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hungary</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>1079</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>3265</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>10085</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>11780</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>44781</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>7278</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Czech Republic</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>8719</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>1781</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>5889</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>4944</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>11989</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sweden</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>3872</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>40626</p></td><td><p>9.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2347</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>12506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Guernsey</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hungary</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>11042</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>648</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>10711</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Serbia</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2364</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data includes exports from holdings in England, Scotland and Wales. Movements between Northern Ireland (NI) and The Republic of Ireland (RoI) is a devolved matter, data for this can be requested from DAERA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/04/2019 13:32:27 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1109874

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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	Cattle: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many live cattle were exported in each year from 2014 to 2018; and what percentage of the total amount of cattle exported went for slaughter in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL15066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The below table shows the number of cattle exported from Great Britain and the percentage of cattle exported for slaughter from Great Britain from 2014 to 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of cattle exported</p></td><td><p>Percentage of cattle exported that went for slaughter</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>7,539</p></td><td><p>45.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,212</p></td><td><p>39.70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>11,070</p></td><td><p>23.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>17,960</p></td><td><p>36.40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>15,183</p></td><td><p>33.80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>56,964</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Of the 56,964 animals exported from 2014 to 2018, 19,781 were exported directly for slaughter. Of this number, 18,629 were destined for Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>This data includes exports from holdings in England, Scotland and Wales. Movements between Northern Ireland (NI) and The Republic of Ireland (RoI) is a devolved matter, data for this can be requested from DEARA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/04/2019 14:18:06 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1109885

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to promote improved global cooperation and governance of research and use of greenhouse gas removal and solar radiation management technologies.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL15077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides a mechanism for global cooperation to assess research into Greenhouse Gas Removal technologies (GGRs) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). These technologies are included in the scope of the upcoming 6th Assessment Report, due for publication in 2021.</p><p>The UK is a leading member of a number of multi-lateral initiatives focused on accelerating progress, and improving global cooperation, of Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) which is an important enabler of some GGRs. This includes the UK co-leading the Carbon Capture Challenge under Mission Innovation and the CCUS Initiative under the Clean Energy Ministerial. The UK also co-hosted, with the International Energy Agency, a Global CCUS Summit in Edinburgh last November bringing together senior energy leaders from governments and industry on how to accelerate global progress on CCUS.</p><p>As a leading provider of International Climate Finance, the UK supports developing countries to restore degraded forest landscapes to support local livelihoods and restore carbon stocks as part of their contributions under the Paris Agreement.</p><p>We have no plans to increase global cooperation and governance of research on and use of SRM technologies. A resolution on SRM governance was recently put before the UN Environment Assembly by Switzerland, but did not gather enough support from other countries, and the resolution was withdrawn.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 17/04/2019 16:01:06 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1109886

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the recommendation in the report by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering Greenhouse gas removal, published in September 2018, to incentivise demonstrators and early stage deployment to enable development of greenhouse gas removal methods.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL15078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>We agree with the need for further research, development and demonstration of early-stage greenhouse gas removal methods, as well as the need to look how best to incentivise responsible deployment. The Department is addressing these recommendations by conducting a more detailed study of different policy options for incentivising removals, and through constructive discussions with the UK Research &amp; Innovation (UKRI) about the possibility of new research funding for demonstrators in the near future.</p><p>BEIS is co-funding an £8.6 million GGR research programme with UK Research &amp; Innovation (UKRI) which will continue until 2021. In addition, projects for some GGR approaches are in scope for both our £20 million Carbon Capture and Utilisation Demonstration (CCUD) Programme and £24 million Call for Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation. The details of these successful CCUS and CCUD projects will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 17/04/2019 16:02:24 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1109890

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Yemen: Arms Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 28 March (HL14604), whether third parties have provided information specifically about weapons made or sold by British companies and then used in Yemen; and if so, whether they will publish (1) that information, and (2) their assessment of it.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL15082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>We are aware that some UK licensed weapons have been used by Saudi Arabia in the conflict in Yemen. We examine every export licence application rigorously on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, including an assessment of whether there is a clear risk that the items might be used in the commission of a serious violation of international humanitarian law (IHL). We regularly raise the importance of compliance with IHL with the Saudi Arabian Government and other members of the Coalition and draw on a range of sources in making assessments, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international organisations and continue to monitor the situation closely, seeking further information where appropriate. We welcome any further information NGOs and international organisations can provide. The Department for International Trade publish export licensing statistics quarterly, which can be found on the gov.uk website.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 18/04/2019 14:37:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans