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1693360

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Offenders
	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 civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>New appointments to Defra undergo pre-employment criminal record checks. Where a conviction is flagged, appointment is dependent on a role-specific risk assessment. Convictions for the following offences result in the individual automatically failing pre-employment checks and not being appointed: life sentences, arson, sexual offences and hate and terror offences.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has participated in the Going Forward into Employment Scheme for Ex-Offenders and has appointed to posts via this scheme. We can confirm that the numbers appointed under this scheme are currently less than 10. However, exact numbers may enable individuals to be identifiable and the privacy and confidentiality of this information requires us to ensure individuals are properly protected.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/03/2024 14:40:03 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1546825

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	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	Livestock Worrying
	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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) reward-only training and (b) e-collar training to deter escaped dogs from attacking sheep.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	99786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The statutory Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs includes guidance on how to keep dogs safe and under control, and can be found here: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F697953%2Fpb13333-cop-dogs-091204.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cfa2b72f04ac74c3b659308dad9094e62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638060931235550706%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LpFCX1q0SV%2F9atxRHpZuYvuJLK5eL2LIdRffQAYRDkg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Code of practice for the welfare of dogs (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Defra published research in 2014 on the use of e-collars which can be found here: <a href="https://sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=15332" target="_blank">Science Search (defra.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/12/2022 15:58:35 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1541453

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2022
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Civil Servants
	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 the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	84837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Core Defra civil service headcount was (a) 6,469 and (b) 4,965.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 28/11/2022 13:56:03 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1541293

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2022
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Coronavirus
	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 employees in her Department work on matters related to covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	83579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>There are currently 9 employees working on matters relating to Covid-19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its Living with Covid plan in February 2022 to help and support citizens as we transition out of the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 18/11/2022 17:19:16 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies