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registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the outcome of the consultation on the draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill; and when the revised Bill will be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL11259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The summary of the responses to the consultation on the draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill, including the government's next steps, was published on 7 August 2018 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-animal-welfare-sentencing-and-recognition-of-sentience-bill-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-animal-welfare-sentencing-and-recognition-of-sentience-bill-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed a copy in the Library of the House. Legislation will be introduced as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/11/2018 15:49:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble attachment 1 file name Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Draft Bill Consultation Response.pdf title Animal Welfare Bill - consultation response
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

998474

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 24 October (HL10776), what are the names of the specialists involved in developing the draft indicator framework for the 25 Year Environment Plan.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL11133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The Environment Analysis Unit in Defra is leading on the development of the indicator framework for the 25 Year Environment Plan. Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Science Advisory Council are providing independent challenge to this process. Over three hundred people from across Defra, academic, business and voluntary organisations have also been involved.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 08/11/2018 13:12:54 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

990154

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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	Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 20 June (HL8412), what are the names of the scientists, economists and environmentalists who have been working on the metrics to measure the progress of their 25 year Environment Plan; what meetings were held over the summer to engage interested parties; when the outcome of those deliberations will be published; and what is the timetable for the formal consultation on the package of metrics.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL10776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>Over 100 specialists from Defra and its arm’s length bodies have been involved in developing the draft indicator framework. We have also worked with a range of external specialists from Defra’s advisory committees. Over the summer a number of meetings and workshops have been held with over 200 people from academic, business and voluntary organisations including workshops on landscapes, soils, water and wildlife. We will continue to engage with stakeholders to develop the framework.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 24/10/2018 13:57:43 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

968794

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Beef: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether it will be possible to import hormone-reared beef after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL10078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is proud of our high standards of food safety and these will not be watered down when we leave the EU. We will remain global leaders in environmental protection and animal welfare standards, maintaining our high quality produce for British consumers.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC into UK law, which prohibits the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported products. This will continue when we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Withdrawal Act will transfer onto the UK statute book all EU food safety and animal welfare standards. Our current high standards, including import requirements, will apply when we leave the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 18/09/2018 11:36:40 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

934487

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Agriculture: Carbon Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address the lack of carbon emissions reductions in the agricultural sector; and whether these emissions are currently expected to miss the targets of their fourth (2023–27) and fifth (2028–32) carbon budgets.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL9168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Our Clean Growth Strategy and 25 Year Environment Plan set out a range of specific commitments to reduce emissions from agriculture, including through environmental land management, strengthening biosecurity and control of endemic diseases in livestock, and encouraging the use of low emissions fertilisers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We want our land and agriculture sectors to play a significant role in low carbon growth, supported through a system of incentives to improve efficiency and sustain our natural environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural industry have fallen by around 20 per cent since 1990 and we are working with the agricultural industry to look at options that would strengthen the delivery of their Greenhouse Gas Action Plan. Defra takes a key role in supporting emissions reduction by providing scientific advice and evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 16/07/2018 12:06:44 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

934489

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Tree Planting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the number of trees planted annually will meet their target of 11 million trees by 2020, in the light of the Committee on Climate Change report of 28 June.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL9170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is confident its commitment to plant 11 million trees during this Parliament will be met. Last year we piloted changes to the Woodland Carbon Fund and Woodland Creation Planning Grant, which have been successful in encouraging greater uptake of these schemes. We have therefore recently made these changes permanent. We continue to actively engage with the sector to promote uptake of available schemes.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/07/2018 11:31:54 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

918916

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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	Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to involve scientists, economists and environmentalists in developing a set of metrics to measure the progress of the 25 Year Environment Plan; and when those metrics will be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL8412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>We have engaged with scientists, economists and environmentalists from a number of external organisations since January to inform the development of a comprehensive suite of metrics and indicators.</p><p> </p><p>We will engage further with interested parties over the summer to canvas views on what this suite of indicators and metrics ought to cover. This will be achieved through a combination of publicly available briefing papers and targeted technical meetings with individual organisations and small groups of interested parties.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The package of metrics we propose will then be subject to a further period of formal consultation in order to ensure we get this important measure absolutely right.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 20/06/2018 13:12:00 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

918917

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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	Water: National Policy Statements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in consulting on the National Policy Statement for Water Resources; and when the outcome of that consultation will be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL8413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>I announced that a national policy statement for water resources would be developed in a written ministerial statement in March 2017 (HLWS532). In November 2017, the government consulted on the approach to developing the statement and proposals to amend the definitions of nationally significant infrastructure projects for water in the Planning Act 2008. The summary of responses and government response was published in March. The government undertook a further informal consultation on amendments to the definitions in April. The government will set out the final thresholds and infrastructure types for the proposed amendment to the Planning Act 2008 in the summer. The government will consult on the draft national policy statement this autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 20/06/2018 13:11:11 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

918918

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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	Birds of Prey: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many successful prosecutions have been made for raptor persecution in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL8414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice data does not distinguish raptors from other birds and, as such, this information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The number of convictions under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for offences in relation to birds, their nests and eggs in each of the last five years are as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>2013</strong>: 15</p><p> </p><p><strong>2014</strong>: 12</p><p> </p><p><strong>2015</strong>: 18</p><p> </p><p><strong>2016</strong>: 12</p><p> </p><p><strong>2017</strong>: 14</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 20/06/2018 13:50:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

918920

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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	Agriculture
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many organisations and individuals contributed to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit consultation document; when the list of contributors will be published; and when their response will be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL8415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>Over 44,000 responses have been received to the government’s consultation <em>“</em><em>Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit”</em>, which closed on 8 May 2018. Responses were received from a wide range of stakeholders including farmers, environmental and food and farming related organisations, and the general public. All responses are being analysed and a report of the findings will be published in due course. This will include further information on the demographics of respondents and a list of organisations who responded.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/06/2018 10:53:53 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch