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1217811

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
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	Food: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether he plans to maintain food and drink standards after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	903816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to upholding our high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards as we leave the EU. The EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing food safety provisions, including existing import requirements, onto the UK statute book after the Transition Period. These requirements include a ban on using artificial growth hormones in domestic and imported products, and set out that no products, other than potable water, are approved to decontaminate poultry carcasses.</p><p> </p><p>Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.</p><p> </p><p>We are already engaging with the agricultural sector as part of our trade discussions and we will continue to work closely with the National Farmers’ Union and other relevant stakeholders across the food chain to understand the concerns about the impact of new trade deals, as well as the opportunities. The Government has in place a range of stakeholder groups to feed into our policy development on trade. These include the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, the Agri-Food Expert Trade Advisory Group and various supply chain groups.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 903821 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:06:49 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1217812

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
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	Food: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether he plans to maintain food and drink standards after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	903821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to upholding our high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards as we leave the EU. The EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing food safety provisions, including existing import requirements, onto the UK statute book after the Transition Period. These requirements include a ban on using artificial growth hormones in domestic and imported products, and set out that no products, other than potable water, are approved to decontaminate poultry carcasses.</p><p> </p><p>Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.</p><p> </p><p>We are already engaging with the agricultural sector as part of our trade discussions and we will continue to work closely with the National Farmers’ Union and other relevant stakeholders across the food chain to understand the concerns about the impact of new trade deals, as well as the opportunities. The Government has in place a range of stakeholder groups to feed into our policy development on trade. These include the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, the Agri-Food Expert Trade Advisory Group and various supply chain groups.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 903816 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:06:49 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1216208

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Forests: Commodities
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 assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of the recommendation of the Global Resource Initiative Taskforce's report of March 2020 on the introduction of a mandatory due diligence obligation on companies that place commodities and derived products that contribute to deforestation on the UK market.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	62334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>We are carefully considering all the options recommended in the Global Resource Initiative Taskforce’s report, including a mandatory due diligence obligation, and will set out our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 25/06/2020 13:46:59 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1216390

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Food: Imports
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a food standards commission to ensure that the standard of international food imports is equivalent to existing UK food standards.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	62697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. The EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing EU food safety provisions, including existing import requirements, onto the UK statute book.</p><p> </p><p>We are already engaging with the agricultural sector as part of our trade discussions. We have not ruled out additional groups, and there is clear scope to review, re-task and reinforce what we have.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State regularly discusses a wide range of issues with Cabinet colleagues, and the Government will continue to work closely with the National Farmers’ Union and other relevant stakeholders across the food chain to understand the concerns about the impact of new trade deals. The Government has in place a range of stakeholder groups to feed into our policy development on trade. These include the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, the Agri-Food Expert Trade Advisory Group and various supply chain groups.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has developed the UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group, which allows officials in Defra and the Devolved Administrations to monitor UK agricultural markets, to share the latest stakeholder information and to provide warning of atypical market movements. It will help prepare the evidence base for the cause and possible range of interventions that may be needed in specific markets.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 62698 62699 question first answered 25/06/2020 14:23:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1216391

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Food: Imports
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 discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on maintaining the current standards of food imports.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	62698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. The EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing EU food safety provisions, including existing import requirements, onto the UK statute book.</p><p> </p><p>We are already engaging with the agricultural sector as part of our trade discussions. We have not ruled out additional groups, and there is clear scope to review, re-task and reinforce what we have.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State regularly discusses a wide range of issues with Cabinet colleagues, and the Government will continue to work closely with the National Farmers’ Union and other relevant stakeholders across the food chain to understand the concerns about the impact of new trade deals. The Government has in place a range of stakeholder groups to feed into our policy development on trade. These include the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, the Agri-Food Expert Trade Advisory Group and various supply chain groups.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has developed the UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group, which allows officials in Defra and the Devolved Administrations to monitor UK agricultural markets, to share the latest stakeholder information and to provide warning of atypical market movements. It will help prepare the evidence base for the cause and possible range of interventions that may be needed in specific markets.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 62697 62699 question first answered 25/06/2020 14:23:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1216392

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Food: Imports
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 ensure that British farmers are not financially affected by food imports produced to lower food safety standards than those required in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	62699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. The EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing EU food safety provisions, including existing import requirements, onto the UK statute book.</p><p> </p><p>We are already engaging with the agricultural sector as part of our trade discussions. We have not ruled out additional groups, and there is clear scope to review, re-task and reinforce what we have.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State regularly discusses a wide range of issues with Cabinet colleagues, and the Government will continue to work closely with the National Farmers’ Union and other relevant stakeholders across the food chain to understand the concerns about the impact of new trade deals. The Government has in place a range of stakeholder groups to feed into our policy development on trade. These include the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, the Agri-Food Expert Trade Advisory Group and various supply chain groups.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has developed the UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group, which allows officials in Defra and the Devolved Administrations to monitor UK agricultural markets, to share the latest stakeholder information and to provide warning of atypical market movements. It will help prepare the evidence base for the cause and possible range of interventions that may be needed in specific markets.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 62697 62698 question first answered 25/06/2020 14:23:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1216399

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
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	Highly Protected Marine Areas: Angling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Benyon Review Into Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs), if he will take steps to ensure that, as in the case of motorised boating, scuba diving, surfing, and personal watercraft, recreational anglers will continue to have access to HPMAs and not be excluded along with mineral extraction, dredging, commercial fishing; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	62335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>We welcome the publication of the Review into Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) on 8 June 2020, which is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highly-protected-marine-areas-hpmas-review-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highly-protected-marine-areas-hpmas-review-2019</a>. We will consider Richard Benyon's report and issue a formal response to him in due course. The panel recommended that HPMAs would represent the upper end of environmental protection and should exclude all extractive activity, including recreational sea angling, to allow for full ecosystem recovery.</p><p>Defra recognises the importance of recreational sea angling to the economy, its benefits to the health and welfare of society, and the contribution anglers and angling bodies make to environmental improvements. We appreciate and understand the concerns raised by the recreational sea anglers since publication of the Benyon Review. We note that the report describes the opportunities that could arise as a result of HPMA introduction, including for recreational fisheries, such as spillover for anglers in adjacent areas. In introducing HPMAs, we note the Panel's recommendation to designate pilot sites by placing them within existing Marine Protected Areas. We would consider the socio-economic impact of HPMAs on all sectors, including recreational sea angling, before any decision to designate a site. Extensive consultation will take place before any decisions are made.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 25/06/2020 11:42:40 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1205211

registered interest
date	18/06/2020
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2020 to Question 57983 on Welfare Assistance Schemes; when he plans to make that funding available; and what formula he plans to use to allocate that funding to each local authority.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	61509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>We are working at pace to establish an allocation model to focus support where it is most needed and to disburse the money to local authorities as soon as we can.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 23/06/2020 10:32:31 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1205266

registered interest
date	18/06/2020
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	Cats: Tagging
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of the compulsory micro-chipping of cats.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	61621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the welfare of cats and has a manifesto commitment to introduce compulsory microchipping of cats. In October 2019 Defra published a call for evidence on compulsory microchipping for cats, which attracted over 3,000 responses. We are in the process of assessing the responses with a view to publishing the summary of them in due course.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 25/06/2020 11:22:00 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1204713

registered interest
date	17/06/2020
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	British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums
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 times his Department has met with the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums since March.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	60700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>Since 25 March, Defra officials have been meeting (via teleconference or by telephone) BIAZA representatives at least once a week.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 24/06/2020 12:49:22 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell