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759296

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Foxes
	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 incentives his Department gives to help control fox numbers in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Wildlife management is a devolved matter so this reply relates to England only.</p><p> </p><p>Defra does not offer incentives to help control fox numbers in England and currently has no plans to control the number of foxes.</p><p> </p><p>Defra's general policy is that individuals should be free to manage wildlife within the law. The fox is not a protected species so the decision to control them lies with the owner or occupier of the property where the problem occurs.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England, on Defra’s behalf, has a team dedicated to providing wildlife management advice to the public, both through written material and directly by telephone.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/09/2017 10:27:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759298

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Avian Influenza
	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 avian influenza outbreaks there have been in the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Recent outbreaks in the UK</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Avian influenza</p></td><td><p>Location</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highly pathogenic avian influenza</p></td><td><p>H5N8 South Norfolk, June 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(HPAI)</p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lancashire, May 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lancashire, May 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Northumberland, February 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Suffolk, February 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lancashire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lancashire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lincolnshire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lancashire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lincolnshire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 North Yorkshire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Carmarthenshire, January 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Lincolnshire, December 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H7N7 Lancashire, July 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>H5N8 Yorkshire, November 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low pathogenic avian influenza</p></td><td><p>H5N1 Fife, January 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(LPAI)</p></td><td><p>H7N7 Hampshire, February 2015</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/09/2017 14:24:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759297

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Game: Antibiotics
	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 advice his Department gives to gamekeepers to reduce the use of antibiotics on game birds.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Veterinary Medicines Directorate has been working closely with the Game Farmers Association (GFA) to raise awareness and foster good stewardship of antibiotics in the sector. The GFA and other sector representatives are committed to bringing down antibiotic use, while ensuring bird health and welfare are preserved. A comprehensive voluntary exercise to measure the use of antibiotics throughout the game sector is being carried out, and antibiotic reduction targets will be announced by the end of 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/09/2017 13:50:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759373

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Diabetes: Pancreatic Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the examination for diabetes which includes a diagnosis for pancreatic cancer becoming available on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>There are currently no plans for the National Health Service to routinely screen patients for pancreatic cancer at the same time they are being tested for diabetes.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 13:35:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759370

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bronchiectasis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with bronchiectasis in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 14:30:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759369

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Sleep Apnoea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with sleep disorders in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Data on the number of people diagnosed with sleep disorders is not collected. Estimates suggest that disorders of sleep are common, with conditions such as insomnia affecting around one in every three people in the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 14:32:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759320

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	South Sudan: Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of Sudan on the recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan; and what assistance the Government has offered to the Sudanese Government.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government is deeply concerned by the conflict in South Sudan, which has caused 2 million people to flee to neighbouring countries, including Sudan. The UK Government does not provide any direct funding to the Government of Sudan. However, through the Department for International Development (DFID)’s South Sudanese Refugees and Migration programme, the UK is providing up to £5 million of support this year to meet the essential humanitarian needs of up to 150,000 South Sudanese refugees in Sudan. DFID is also the largest donor to the UN’s Sudan Humanitarian Fund, which provides support to South Sudanese refugees and other vulnerable people in Sudan. We regularly discuss the conflict with the Government of Sudan, and welcome the opening of three humanitarian corridors by the Government, which has allowed aid to be delivered to the most affected populations.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/09/2017 10:45:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759468

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Antarctic: Snow and Ice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of how much ice has reduced in the Antarctic in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>In the Antarctic, there are two main forms of ice, glacial and sea ice, which, due to differences in measurement approaches, are assessed separately.</p><p>Sea ice, formed from freezing seawater, is highly variable on a year-to-year basis, and over the last 5 years (2012 - 2016) the annual average extent of sea ice has decreased by an average of about a quarter of a million square kilometres per year. In March 2017 the sea ice extent dropped to the lowest level observed since satellite monitoring began in 1978— at about 2 million square kilometres, or 27% below the mean annual minimum.</p><p>In the 5 years to mid-2016, around 550 Gigatonnes of glacial ice, which is formed from snow, were lost from the ice sheet.</p><p>For a full understanding of changes in Antarctic ice, longer-term trends should be assessed. The 5<sup>th</sup> Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed that the Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass over the past two decades and, while the long term trend in Antarctic sea ice extent has shown a small increase, there are strong regional differences, with extent increasing in some regions and decreasing in others.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/09/2017 13:12:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759386

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islam
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent subscription to Islamic extremist groups or ideology within the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to defeating extremism wherever it occurs, and is establishing a Commission for Countering Extremism to support this effort. The Commission will identify extremism and advise the Government on how best to tackle it. It will also support communities and the public sector to confront all forms of extremism and promote and defend our fundamental values.</p><p>This builds on existing work under the Government’s comprehensive Counter-Extremism Strategy to countering extremist ideology, develop partnerships with all those opposed to extremism, disrupt the most dangerous extremists, and build cohesive communities.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/09/2017 13:18:54 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759318

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Malaysia: Corporal Punishment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of Malaysia on introducing public caning under Sharia law.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>​We are aware of the Private Member's Bill proposed by the PAS party to the Malaysian Parliament to expand the jurisdiction of Sharia courts in Malaysia to allow Islamic punishments (hudud). We have a regular dialogue on human rights with the Malaysian government, including at Ministerial level. Former Minister for Asia and the Pacific, Alok Sharma MP, discussed a number of issues, including human rights, with Malaysian Ministers during his visit to Kuala Lumpur in April 2017. Officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London meet periodically with representatives of Malaysian Civil Society to hear their concerns. We will continue to monitor human rights issues and internal developments in Malaysia, working with the EU and other foreign missions in Kuala Lumpur, raising our concerns as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 19/09/2017 15:23:53 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon