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511535

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date	12/04/2016
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	Poultry: Animal Welfare
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their decision to withdraw the Draft Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock: Meat Chickens and Breeding Chickens (Revocation) (England) Order 2016, what alternative proposals they are drawing up to update existing welfare codes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government intends to retain all existing statutory animal welfare codes and is working with interested parties to ensure our guidance continues to help farmers comply with our high welfare standards.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL7578 question first answered 20/04/2016 15:22:24 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

511536

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 whether they have plans to repeal any existing statutory animal welfare codes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government intends to retain all existing statutory animal welfare codes and is working with interested parties to ensure our guidance continues to help farmers comply with our high welfare standards.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL7577 question first answered 20/04/2016 15:22:24 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510301

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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	Horses: Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to control the live exports of horses from the UK that are falsely declared to be exported for leisure purposes but where the true intention is for slaughter and human consumption.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is aware of concerns about horse exports and has been working closely with welfare charities on this issue and in particular on improving intelligence gathering. When reports are received by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) that horses are being exported other than for the declared purpose, or are being inappropriately transported, APHA will investigate and will take appropriate enforcement action. This may include suspending transporters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 25/04/2016 14:47:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510302

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meat: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in the light of the 2013 horsemeat scandal, what steps are being taken to tighten controls on imported meat and to increase random sampling of meat in the retail and hospitality sectors.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>Robust import controls already exist for meat and meat products entering the European Union (EU) from non-EU countries. These consignments are considered to be of potential high risk to animal and public health therefore each consignment of meat must:</p><p> </p><p>- come from a country approved to export meat or meat products to the EU;</p><p> </p><p>- come from EU-approved premises;</p><p> </p><p>- be accompanied by animal health and public health certification;and</p><p> </p><p>- enter the EU through a Border Inspection Post (BIP) where veterinary checks are carried out (all consignments must also be pre-notified prior to arrival).</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the United Kingdom imports little in the way of processed meat[1] from non-EU (third) countries the Food Standards Agency (FSA) did undertake a two month sampling programme starting on the 4 March 2013 on bovine meat and meat products presented for import from third countries at UK borders to test for traces of horse or pig meat DNA; no horse or pig meat positives were found. The FSA concluded that the existing import controls allowed little room for fraud and did not require further tightening.</p><p> </p><p>Enforcement responsibility for food retail and hospitality sectors lies with local authorities. The FSA funds local authorities to take additional food samples against priorities set by FSA. The meat related priorities in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 are as set out in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA’s priorities are also used by local authorities to target sampling that they fund themselves.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Sampling priorities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>- Composition criteria and labelling requirements for minced meat - Testing for the presence of undeclared meat species in meat and meat products - Labelling in terms of: meat content, added water, and hydrolysed proteins in chicken products/preparations (e.g. chicken breast fillets) – food service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>- Composition and labelling of raw minced meat species: beef, lamb, pork, chicken and turkey mince samples - Raw meat species testing for the presence of undeclared meat species in meat and meat products covering retail, catering, wholesalers - Raw chicken portions/products, checking labelling in terms of: meat content, added water, and hydrolysed proteins</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>- Minced meat composition (retail and wholesale), including speciation - Meat species substitution in food service and retail - Raw chicken products and preparations with added water, including checking whether there were proteins present from different meat species</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] The 2013 horsemeat scandal centred on the intra EU trade in processed meat.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 25/04/2016 13:24:39 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510303

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meat: Fraud
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions for food fraud in the form of meat substitution there were in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for prosecuting meat species substitution offences. Generally, these prosecutions are taken forward under regulations relating to the labelling and mis-description of food, rather than under fraud legislation. The Food Standards Agency has taken on the task of compiling a register of successful food law prosecutions and is just completing the first year of data collection on local authority food prosecutions. However, it does not hold definitive data on prosecutions for offences of this nature in the last three years.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 25/04/2016 13:51:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510304

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	London Underground: Floods
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the National Flood Resilience Review is considering the findings of London Underground’s flood risk review which identifies 85 stations, tunnels and shafts as at high risk of flooding.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>As set out in evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee on 13 April, the National Flood Resilience Review is looking across infrastructure in a number of sectors to identify those assets which the Government thinks need to be more resilient against extreme river or tidal flooding</p><p>Separately to the national review, London Underground is in the process of reviewing their own vulnerability to all forms of flooding: this includes river and coastal but also the risk of burst water mains, which can be a much bigger threat in an urban area. This work is primarily for London Underground to agree with Transport for London and the Mayor, but Department for Transport and Cabinet Office officials will stay abreast of the London Underground work to ensure it is coherent with the National Flood Resilience Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/04/2016 14:12:05 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510305

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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: Antibiotics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are considering banning the routine use on farms of antibiotics classified by the World Health Organisation as critically important for treating bacterial infections in people.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The legislation that controls veterinary medicines and medicated feed within the EU is currently under revision. To reflect the rising threat of antibiotic resistance the new proposed frameworks set out additional controls on antibiotics. This includes a ban on the routine preventative use of antibiotics, including those classified as critically important, something the UK supports.</p><p> </p><p>Negotiations on the frameworks are expected to continue until late 2017. There are no plans to significantly revise or amend the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 until the Commission’s work on the review of legislation has been completed.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 20/04/2016 16:03:34 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

510306

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Campylobacter
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to tackle the increase in human campylobacter cases, caught from infected poultry, which are proving to be resistant to the key antibiotic ciprofloxacin.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health concern and a global challenge. The United Kingdom Government has established a 5 year AMR strategy (2013-2018) which sets out our actions to slow the development and spread of AMR. A copy of the <em>UK Five Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2013 to 2018</em> is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Government supports industry initiatives on the responsible use of antibiotics, such as those implemented by the British Poultry Council, who introduced a voluntary ban on the use of cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones in poultry in January 2012. This action will in the long-term help reduce the development of resistance in bacteria including<em> campylobacter</em> in poultry.</p><p> </p><p><em>Campylobacter</em> is the leading cause of infectious intestinal disease in people in the UK and poultry meat is considered to be the main source of these infections. To address this, the Food Standards Agency has worked closely with industry in reducing <em>campylobacter</em> levels in chicken and is tackling this issue throughout the food chain; this has included improved biosecurity measures on farm, interventions such as blast surface chilling or additional heat steps during processing, the introduction of leak-proof packaging at retail and advice for consumers on safe handling of raw chickens within the home. These approaches are expected to reduce the number of <em>campylobacter </em>infections in humans.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 25/04/2016 13:20:08 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name 20130902_UK_5_year_AMR_strategy.pdf title AMR Strategy
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

483286

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
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: Waste
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage supermarkets to redistribute surplus food to charities rather than disposing of surplus via anaerobic digestion or landfill.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2016 answer text <p>If surplus food cannot be prevented, the next best option is to ensure that it is redistributed for human consumption. Working through the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and our voluntary agreements with the grocery sector, we have taken action to ensure that more surplus food is redistributed to people before being put to any other use. All major retailers now have arrangements in place to redistribute surplus food. Signatories to phase 3 of the Courtauld Commitment have reported a 74% increase in food redistribution between 2012 and the end of 2014, and we expect this to increase further.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, the Secretary of State held a meeting with industry and redistribution organisations to take stock of progress on food redistribution. Outcomes from this include the recent publication of a Redistribution Framework to help facilitate closer working between potential donors and recipients of food surpluses. WRAP has commissioned research to identify where and why waste and surpluses occur in the supply chain to inform further action to increase waste prevention and redistribution.</p><p> </p><p>Following the success of earlier agreements, WRAP launched the Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March this year. This is an ambitious new agreement that takes a whole food supply chain approach, and will build on the progress we have already made to prevent waste, including through the redistribution of surplus food.</p><p> </p><p>There will always be some unavoidable food waste. The Government’s Anaerobic Digestion Strategy is in place to reduce the amount of organic material going to landfill and drive the waste that is produced into energy recovery or recycling.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/04/2016 12:28:02 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

483287

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
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	Beverage Containers: Recycling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage coffee chains to recycle paper coffee cups.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL7211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2016 answer text <p>Paper coffee cups are captured under the Packaging Waste Regulations. The UK meets its packaging waste recovery and recycling targets through a market-based approach. Packaging producers who put more than 50 tonnes a year of packaging materials on the market, and have an annual turnover of more than £2 million, are required to recover and recycle a proportion of their packaging waste. As a result most major coffee chains pick up a financial obligation to recycle their packaging waste, including paper coffee cups, through this mechanism.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is also working with campaigners and industry to develop a National Litter Strategy for England.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are aware of many major chains who are taking their own action to incentivise environmentally friendly behaviour, for example by offering a discount on drinks if customers bring their own reusable cups.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 04/04/2016 11:48:50 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch