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1627581

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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	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, whether it remains her policy to implement the Action Plan for Animal Welfare, published on 12 May 2021.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>We plan to take forward our ambitious agenda of animal welfare and conservation reforms, as outlined in the 2021 Action Plan for Animal Welfare, during the current Parliamentary session and beyond. We will continue to introduce and support legislative and non-legislative reforms when we can.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/05/2023 10:45:19 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627240

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Batteries: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, steps her Department is taking to increase investment in the domestic battery recycling industry.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>The Critical Minerals Refresh published in March, sets out our approach to delivering on the Critical Minerals Strategy, and confirms our participation in the Minerals Security Partnership. Working with international partners, this aims to spur investment in supply chains across four pillars, including recycling and reuse, and will support our work to accelerate a circular economy of critical minerals in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also funding record investment in battery innovation and commercialisation, including in recycling. The £541m Faraday Battery Challenge is supporting projects such as REBLEND, which is developing commercial processes to directly recover valuable cathode active materials (CAM) for reuse in automotive batteries. The project is led by Ecoshred, with University of Leicester, University of Birmingham, Minviro, Iconichem Widnes, Watercycle Technologies, Ecolamp Recycling, and Cornish Lithium.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 17/05/2023 10:55:25 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627242

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
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 Housing
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 28 March 2023 to Question 173051, what steps her Department have taken to examine the use of cages for laying hens.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>We are providing a range of financial incentives for improving animal health and welfare to farmers through the new Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. These incentives focus on published health and welfare priorities for each sector and will include support for farmers wishing to transition away from the use of enriched ‘colony’ cages for laying hens.</p><p> </p><p>Specifically, we are exploring options for large infrastructure grants, building on the animal health and welfare grants already available towards the cost of equipment and technology which offer improvements in the health and welfare of livestock.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/05/2023 14:16:17 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627243

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
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	Agriculture: Animal Housing
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 she plans to provide funding to farmers to transition to cage-free farming systems in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>We are providing a range of financial incentives for improving animal health and welfare to farmers through the new Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. These incentives focus on published health and welfare priorities for each sector and will include support for farmers wishing to transition away from the use of enriched ‘colony’ cages for laying hens and farrowing crates for pigs.</p><p> </p><p>Specifically, we are exploring options for large infrastructure grants, building on the animal health and welfare grants already available towards the cost of equipment and technology which offer improvements in the health and welfare of livestock.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/05/2023 14:12:37 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627244

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
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 Housing
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 implications for her policies of undercover investigation footage from Carr Farm in East Yorkshire published by the Daily Mail newspaper on 14 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>All livestock are protected by comprehensive and robust animal health and welfare legislation: the Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes it an offence either to cause any captive animal unnecessary suffering or to fail to provide for the welfare needs of the animal; and The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 set down detailed requirements on how farmed livestock should be kept. Breaches of animal welfare legislation are taken very seriously and every allegation that is reported to us is investigated.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate action is taken where welfare regulations are breached. It is imperative that any suspicion of animal cruelty is alerted to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in the first instance, so that timely investigations can take place and the welfare of animals can be safeguarded.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/05/2023 14:19:50 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627245

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
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 Housing
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 20 April 2023 to Question 179978 on Poultry: Animal Housing, if she will make an estimate of the costs to industry of a ban on the use of cages for laying hens.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to estimate the cost to industry of a ban on the use of cages for laying hens.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 17/05/2023 14:09:27 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1626212

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether animal testing has taken place in the UK since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>Information on animal testing regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 that has taken place in the UK since 2019 can be found in the annual published statistics here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 17/05/2023 14:27:08 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1625653

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
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	Fishing Vessels
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 that pelagic supertrawlers licensed to fish in UK waters are fulfilling their legal duty to report marine mammal bycatch to the Marine Management Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	183697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The UK introduced new rules in 2021 making it a mandatory requirement under fishing vessel licence conditions for fishers to report any marine mammal bycatch to the MMO. On the introduction of this requirement, communications were sent out by Defra, the Devolved Administrations and the MMO to ensure that industry understood the new obligations. Responsibility for enforcing licence conditions in Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p><p>The Sea Mammal Research Unit have carried out monitoring of pelagic trawlers targeting herring and mackerel for a number of years and reported no bycatch of marine mammals in these fisheries in recent years, whilst other sections of the UK pelagic fleet are working on bycatch mitigation projects to reduce the likelihood of these events occurring more broadly.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 15/05/2023 11:45:59 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1625402

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Public Lavatories: Men
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to amend (a) building regulations and (b) his Department's guidance to require the provision of sanitary bins in men's public toilets.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	183398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>Improving the accessibility and use of buildings is already a part of the Government’s agenda on the built environment. A process has been underway since 2020 to update the building regulations and associated guidance contained in Approved Document M. Simultaneously, a call for evidence on toilet provision was undertaken earlier this year and Written Ministerial Statement <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-statements%2Fdetail%2F2022-07-04%2Fhcws172&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C57c7c3ef37a84863358d08db52d0abfd%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638194828402222641%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=17hWxQ%2F8LkBqajocH4F9NWenewr4vV2l4eL6dstlgaI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">HCWS172</a> followed from it.</p><p>The Government is committed to undertaking further technical consultations on both of these workstreams in due course. Upon conclusion of those consultations, responses will be considered, and policy announcements will then be made in the appropriate way.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 15/05/2023 14:23:34 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1623196

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on supporting disabled people into work.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	904583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>It was a pleasure in February to visit Crawley Job Centre and meet the Work Coaches with My Honourable Friend.</p><p>He will know we have helped over one million more disabled people into work and our Health and Disability White Paper and the budget support will do so much more.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/04/2023 16:06:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith