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date	05/12/2016
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	Pigs: 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, what steps she is taking to improve enforcement of (a) paragraph 15 on environmental enrichment for pigs of Schedule 8 to the Aftercare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 and (b) paragraph 5 on tail docking of pigs of Schedule 3 to the Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) Regulations 2007.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Meale
uin	56158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>Defra’s Code of Recommendations for pigs, which all pig-keepers must be familiar with, provides guidance on how to comply with the legal requirements in relation to environmental enrichment and routine tail-docking. When carrying out an inspection of a pig unit, the Animal Health and Plant Health Agency evaluate the provision of enrichment material and whether pigs are routinely tail-docked without a justifiable reason and will apply breaches where non-compliances are found.</p><p> </p><p>There are health and welfare reasons for continuing to tail-dock in certain circumstances, but we and the pig industry recognise a need to improve the quality of enrichment materials available for all pigs and increase opportunities to stop tail-docking.</p><p> </p><p>Defra contributed to a European Commission research project by Bristol University which informed the EU Commission’s recently published guidance on tail docking and enrichment materials. We are working with the industry to implement these recommendations on tail docking and enrichment which were published earlier this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/12/2016 17:56:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	361 label Biography information for Sir Alan Meale

631952

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Honours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, whether her nomination of people for a peerage takes account of age as well as merit; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Meale
uin	52210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>Any appointments would be made in the usual way and would be vetted for propriety by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 18/11/2016 10:18:22 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	361 label Biography information for Sir Alan Meale

383957

registered interest
date	18/06/2015
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to make payments of winter fuel allowance to those who qualify for such payments after the third Monday in September and before 1 January before the end of the same financial year.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Meale
uin	3123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Qualifying Week for Winter Fuel Payment assessments is set at the third week of September to ensure that the maximum number of payments (over 95 per cent of eligible cases) are made automatically before Christmas, typically the coldest part of winter. Those that are not paid automatically are accepted as clerical claims up to the 31 March, and payment is issued as soon as possible. There are no plans to review the Qualifying Week.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/06/2015 13:57:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	361 label Biography information for Sir Alan Meale

100218

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of changes in the rates of (a) alcohol-related crime and (b) binge drinking since the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Meale
uin	211227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>It is difficult to draw causality between the Licensing Act 2003 and changing behaviours. The Licensing Act 2003 came into force in November 2005. Data on offences which are ‘alcohol related’ are drawn from the Crime Survey of England and Wales, which asks victims of violent incidents whether they perceived the offender to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of the offence. By this measure, the number of violent incidents considered to be‘alcohol related’ has fallen from around 1.02 million incidents in 2005/06, to around 0.88 million incidents in 2012/13 (a fall of 14%). <br><br>The definition of binge drinking used by the NHS is drinking more than double the lower risk guidelines for alcohol in one session – more than 8 units for men and 6 units for women. The Opinions and Lifestyle survey, published by the Office of National Statistics provides our best measure for this. The data shows that in 2005, 23% of men and 15% of women drank over twice the lower risk guidelines on at least one day in the week before interview. This fell to 19 % of men and 11 % of women in 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 30/10/2014 11:50:15 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	361 label Biography information for Sir Alan Meale