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1462952

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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: Pest Control
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 members of the (a) Welsh Assembly and (b) Welsh Government on the change to general licences for the control of wild birds.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is the licensing authority responsible for granting general licences for the control of wild birds in Wales. Defra officials discuss general licensing issues with NRW staff as appropriate. This includes the recent changes to the 2022 Welsh general licences for the control of wild birds.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/05/2022 13:44:49 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1274481

registered interest
date	06/01/2021
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: Pest Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to publicise the changed conditions of GL40 licences to kill or take certain wild birds to conserve wild birds and to conserve flora and fauna, and (2) to inform licence holders and affected bodies about the changes to the conditions of such licences.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL11795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2021 answer text <p>On 1 January the Government issued three new general licences, GL40, GL41 and GL42. The new general licences set out when actions can be taken against certain wild bird species, and for what purpose.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to this, Defra published drafts of the new licences on 9 November 2020 on GOV.UK and contacted key representatives of farming, shooting and pest control industry bodies to alert them to this. Defra also met with representatives from the farming and shooting industry to discuss the draft licences. This enabled these groups to inform their members of the changes to help them make any preparations necessary before the licences came into force.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 20/01/2021 17:00:46 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1202452

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 applications for individual licences for the control of (a) jackdaws, (b) jays and (c) rooks to conserve wildlife within European protected sites have been refused.
tabling member constituency	Wealden
tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
uin	58008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>In 2020 Natural England has refused 19 such individual licences for jackdaws, 13 for jays and 11 for rooks within European protected sites and a 300 metre buffer zone around them.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England has not granted any such licences for jackdaws or rooks this year but has granted one for jays.</p><p> </p><p>Before granting such an individual licence Natural England requires evidence that:</p><p> </p><ul><li>there is a genuine problem to resolve or need to satisfy, for which a statutory licensing purpose applies</li><li>there are no satisfactory alternatives, including non-lethal solutions having been tried or considered and shown to be ineffective</li><li>the licensed action will contribute to resolving the problem or meeting the need</li><li>the action to be licensed is proportionate to the problem or need</li><li>the licenced action will not have an adverse effect on the conservation status of any species or habitat</li></ul> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 58009 58010 question first answered 16/06/2020 08:03:05 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1202456

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 individual applications for wildlife management licencees for control of (a) jackdaws, (bi) jays and (c) rooks within (a) European protected sites and (b) buffer zones for those sites were granted by Natural England in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Wealden
tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
uin	58009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>In 2020 Natural England has refused 19 such individual licences for jackdaws, 13 for jays and 11 for rooks within European protected sites and a 300 metre buffer zone around them.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England has not granted any such licences for jackdaws or rooks this year but has granted one for jays.</p><p> </p><p>Before granting such an individual licence Natural England requires evidence that:</p><p> </p><ul><li>there is a genuine problem to resolve or need to satisfy, for which a statutory licensing purpose applies</li><li>there are no satisfactory alternatives, including non-lethal solutions having been tried or considered and shown to be ineffective</li><li>the licensed action will contribute to resolving the problem or meeting the need</li><li>the action to be licensed is proportionate to the problem or need</li><li>the licenced action will not have an adverse effect on the conservation status of any species or habitat</li></ul> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 58008 58010 question first answered 16/06/2020 08:03:05 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1202459

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 evidence is required for applications for individual licences for the control of (a) jackdaws, (b) jays and (c) rooks to conserve wildlife within (a) European protected sites and (b) the buffer zones of those sites.
tabling member constituency	Wealden
tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
uin	58010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>In 2020 Natural England has refused 19 such individual licences for jackdaws, 13 for jays and 11 for rooks within European protected sites and a 300 metre buffer zone around them.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England has not granted any such licences for jackdaws or rooks this year but has granted one for jays.</p><p> </p><p>Before granting such an individual licence Natural England requires evidence that:</p><p> </p><ul><li>there is a genuine problem to resolve or need to satisfy, for which a statutory licensing purpose applies</li><li>there are no satisfactory alternatives, including non-lethal solutions having been tried or considered and shown to be ineffective</li><li>the licensed action will contribute to resolving the problem or meeting the need</li><li>the action to be licensed is proportionate to the problem or need</li><li>the licenced action will not have an adverse effect on the conservation status of any species or habitat</li></ul> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 58008 58009 question first answered 16/06/2020 08:03:05 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1200200

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 applications for individual licences were made in 2020 for the control of common pest and predatory corvids to conserve wildlife within European protected sites and 300m buffer zones; and how many of those have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	54260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2020 answer text <p>Natural England has received approximately 160 applications to control Corvid species on or close to European protected sites. To date, 26 of these applications have been granted, 8 rejected, with 126 still to be determined or have been withdrawn. For some applications, not all corvid species for which a licence has been requested have been granted.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/06/2020 11:08:39 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1176847

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 her Department is taking to ensure the timely issuance of new general licences for the control of pest birds in England.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	13603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State granted general licences for the lethal control of certain wild birds in June 2019, which are valid until 29 February 2020. Since June 2019, Defra has been undertaking a review of these general licences, including a public survey which generated over 4,400 responses, a review of scientific evidence and a series of workshops with licence users and other stakeholders. The Secretary of State will make an announcement soon on licensing arrangements from 1 March.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/02/2020 16:29:36 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1148122

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 she has made of the effectiveness of the general licences for bird control that were introduced in April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	294170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith question first answered 08/10/2019 16:31:31 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1138993

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 licences his Department has issued to kill (a) cormorants and (b) goosanders in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	277096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The numbers of cormorant and goosander licences issued between 2014 and 2019 (to date) by Natural England on behalf of the Secretary of State are given in the table below. Individual licences are licences issued to an individual or angling club/fishery. An area based licence is one licence issued to a primary contact which covers multiple individuals amongst a group of fisheries within a defined catchment or area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Species</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong> <strong>(to date)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cormorant (Individual)</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>435</p></td><td><p>429</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goosander (Individual)</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cormorant only (Area Based Licence)</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goosander only (Area Based Licence)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cormorant / Goosander (Area Based Licence)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/07/2019 14:33:27 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

1129602

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Birds: Pest Control
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 he plans to announce the new rules on General Licences.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	259813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We intend to make an announcement on the Secretary of State’s decision on general licences shortly.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 10/06/2019 10:26:19 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching