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1052445

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Circuses: 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 the Government plans to take to protect the welfare of wild animals touring with travelling circuses in England once The Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012 expire in January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	215555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave to the honourable member for Oxford West and Abingdon on 16 October 2018 to Question 176633.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-08/176633/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-08/176633/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/02/2019 17:46:51 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

1052464

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Fisheries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he first became aware that UK fishers have been harvesting immature welks under the minimum landing size; and if will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	215615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Most whelks in the UK are found in our inshore fisheries and as such many are subject to local controls as well as national or EU restrictions. The Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs) have powers in place to enforce the minimum conservation reference size for whelks. Where an offence is discovered the relevant IFCA would deal with this in line with their published compliance and enforcement strategy, which allows for a range of sanctions aimed at seeking better compliance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 12:58:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1052465

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Fisheries
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 oral contribution of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of 29 January 2019, Official Report, column 9, on what date his Department plans to lay before Parliament a draft Statutory Instrument to ban electro-pulse beam fishing.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	215616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The draft Statutory Instrument containing the pulse beam trawling amendments, The Common Fisheries Policy and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, is due to be laid on 12 February. The relevant amendments are in Part 3, Amendments of the Technical Conservation Regulations.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 13:11:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1052466

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Statutory Instruments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will grant access to his Department’s Statutory Instrument reading room to Parliamentarians to enhance pre-laying scrutiny of Statutory Instruments.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	215617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Reading Room was developed based on feedback from stakeholders to give them advanced sight of SIs before they are laid in Parliament. It is an online platform where stakeholders can check the technical aspects of near-final SIs before they are laid before Parliament. It has been designed with a specific audience in mind. Parliamentarians are able to scrutinise these SIs through the usual process. Unlike stakeholders, Parliamentarians have a significant scrutiny timetable and can chose to accept or reject the SIs.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 11/02/2019 17:07:11 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1052173

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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
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 (a) holdings were tested for bovine tuberculosis, (b) animals were tested in each of those holdings and (c) of those animals tested positive using the interferon gamma test in each county of England in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	215074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Data on tuberculin skin testing for parts (a) and (b) is not held in the form requested. Published statistical data sets show that there were 67,137 tests on herds in the 10 months to October 2018. Total cattle tests in the same period amounted to 8,278,885. The full year figures for 2018 will not be available until March 2019, because the data has to meet the Code of Practice for Statistics. The data sets, which include county level data, and explanatory notes can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain</a></p><p> </p><p>The numbers of cattle that tested positive to the interferon gamma test in each county of England in 2018 is set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/02/2019 16:49:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice attachment 1 file name Gamma testing - all counties.docx title Gamma testing data for England
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1052198

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	Dogs: Animal Breeding
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 licensed dog breeders there are in the (a) UK and (b) Clacton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	215236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 came into force on 1 October 2018. These regulations replace outdated Acts, and are based on modern welfare standards. The Regulations include a requirement for local authorities to submit data to Defra each year on the number of licences in force for each licensable activity. The first submission will be required to be submitted to Defra by 31 May 2019 covering the period October 2018 to March 2019 inclusive. Therefore, the Department does not currently hold data on the number of licensed dog breeders under these regulations. Under the previous legislation, there were an estimated 4,950 licensed dog breeders in England.</p><p> </p><p>Breeders of animals other than dogs are not subject to licensing requirements, unless they are in the business of selling the animals as pets. Under the previous legislation there were an estimated 2,300 licensed pet sellers in England, but this includes sellers that do not breed the animals themselves.</p><p> </p><p>Defra does not hold data on the whole of the UK or for individual Parliamentary constituencies. This information is held by Local Authorities.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 215237 question first answered 07/02/2019 14:35:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1052199

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 Breeding
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 licensed animal breeders there are in the (a) United Kingdom and (b) Clacton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	215237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 came into force on 1 October 2018. These regulations replace outdated Acts, and are based on modern welfare standards. The Regulations include a requirement for local authorities to submit data to Defra each year on the number of licences in force for each licensable activity. The first submission will be required to be submitted to Defra by 31 May 2019 covering the period October 2018 to March 2019 inclusive. Therefore, the Department does not currently hold data on the number of licensed dog breeders under these regulations. Under the previous legislation, there were an estimated 4,950 licensed dog breeders in England.</p><p> </p><p>Breeders of animals other than dogs are not subject to licensing requirements, unless they are in the business of selling the animals as pets. Under the previous legislation there were an estimated 2,300 licensed pet sellers in England, but this includes sellers that do not breed the animals themselves.</p><p> </p><p>Defra does not hold data on the whole of the UK or for individual Parliamentary constituencies. This information is held by Local Authorities.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 215236 question first answered 07/02/2019 14:35:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1052283

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	Waste: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the export of waste to countries that do not meet UK human health and environmental protection standards in the disposal of waste.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	215123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>We want to promote UK-based recycling and export less waste to be processed abroad. We want to tighten controls over the waste which we do export. We are looking at a suite of measures including increasing monitoring of international waste shipments and charging higher fees to improve compliance. We set out these ideas in the Resources and Waste Strategy at the end of last year and will publish detailed plans soon.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK is a Party to the United Nations Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal. The Convention provides a global system for controlling the export of hazardous wastes and wastes collected from households. The requirements of the Basel Convention have been implemented in UK law by the EU Waste Shipment Regulations (Regulation (EC) 1013/2006) and the UK Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EU Waste Shipment Regulations impose strict conditions on the types of waste that can be exported, and set out procedures that waste exporters must follow. They prohibit the export from the EU of waste for disposal to a country outside the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). Regulation 21 of the UK Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations make it an offence to transport waste destined for disposal to countries outside the EFTA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The legislation also requires that those involved in the shipment of waste take all necessary steps to ensure waste is managed in an environmentally sound manner throughout its shipment and at the waste management facility in the country of destination.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK has a robust approach to enforcing these controls. In 2017 the Environment Agency (EA) inspected more than 1,000 shipping containers and returned 367 of these to their site of loading. The EA stopped over 7,000 tonnes of waste at ports and prevented nearly 9,000 tonnes of waste from reaching ports.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EA takes a proactive, intelligence-led approach to ensure it targets shipments that pose a high risk of non-compliance. The EA’s use of Stop Notices has proved to be an effective tool in prohibiting illegal waste shipments from being exported. After exports are stopped, the costs associated with returning a waste shipment that is found to be unfit for export to the site of origin for further treatment can be a significant cost to the exporter. This has been sufficient to educate and deter further illegal waste exports without the need for additional sanctions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 215126 question first answered 07/02/2019 11:05:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1052285

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	Tyres: Waste Disposal
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 he is taking to monitor compliance with U2 environmental exemption licences to ensure that used tyres intended construction are not exported abroad for waste.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	215124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Waste activities are regulated and require permits to operate which the Environment Agency issues and enforces. Some waste activities that are low risk do not require permits and are regulated by the Environment Agency under waste exemptions, which an operator registers for free online. A U2 exemption allows an operator to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction projects without the need for a permit and is not related to exports.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency takes a risk based approach to enforcement and will investigate a site where it receives intelligence that indicates illegal activity. It has no evidence to suggest tyre bales stored on a U2 registered site ready for use in a construction project are being diverted for export.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/02/2019 17:14:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1052288

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	Tyres: Waste Disposal
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 recent estimate he has made of the number of UK tyres exported to pyrolysis plants in (a) Africa and (b) India in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	215125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Waste tyres can be exported under two procedures.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on the shipments of waste, most exports of non-hazardous waste destined for recovery in non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries are subject to ‘green list’ controls unless more stringent controls are required by an importing country. Green list controls do not require approval from the UK regulators prior to shipment. As a result, Defra does not hold data on the number of tyres exported from the UK for recovery in pyrolysis plants in Africa or India.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on exports of waste materials is published by HM Revenue and Customs and is available at: <a href="http://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">www.uktradeinfo.com</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the UK regulators collect data on the export of wastes that are subject to the process of prior written notification and consent. Waste tyres will be exported under these controls where they are hazardous or destined for disposal. The Environment Agency has not agreed any notifications to export waste tyres under these controls in the last three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/02/2019 17:25:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy