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	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation to increase the maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences from six months to five years imprisonment before the end of this parliamentary session.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL13334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government will introduce the necessary legislation to increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty from 6 months’ imprisonment to 5 years’ imprisonment, as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 11/02/2019 11:48:59 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1054357

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Plants: Research
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide open access to the results of plant and seed research.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL13409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Government-funded plant and seed research is predominantly commissioned by the Research Councils and Defra. Such research is undertaken by a number of organisations, each of which have different routes for publication.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2005, Research Councils UK have had open access policies that support and provide guidance about publishing on open platforms. This guidance can be found on the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) website. Independent advice commissioned by the Government has reinforced this guidance. Most recently, a report entitled “<em>Open Access to Research- 2018; Independent Advice</em>” was published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>In line with Government policy on transparency, Defra is committed to publishing the reports generated by its research programmes. Final reports from Defra-funded research are quality assured and published on the “Defra Science Search” website.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 11/02/2019 11:47:05 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch