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Whether research by Dr Andy Thorpe of the University of Portsmouth into methane emissions from cows in relation to climate change received government funding.
Asked by
Lord Tyler (Liberal Democrat)
Oral question - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
24 November 2008
Reference
705 c1286
House
House of Lords
I congratulate the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) on securing this important debate. If others bring to it as much wisdom as he has, we will be tremendously privileged. I am pleased to take part in this debate, particularly because almost two years ago I suffered a serious...
Member
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
18 November 2008
Reference
483 c11-3WH
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the estimated value was of direct aid under the Common Agricultural Policy in each of the last five years, broken down by product; and by what date this support will be phased out in each case, where...
Asked by
James Paice (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
12 November 2008
Reference
482 c1222-6W; 230869
House
House of Commons
It is a pleasure for me to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry). I have not taken part in the police parliamentary scheme, but I regularly go out on patrol with members of the Hertfordshire constabulary. I would like to place on record my admiration for...
Member
Mike Penning (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
6 November 2008
Reference
482 c447-8
House
House of Commons
Table showing regulations that cover the minimum space requirements for (a) poultry, (b) sheep, (c) pigs, (d) cows and (e) other livestock during transportation and the minimum requirement is in each case. 5 p.
Deposited by
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Deposited paper
Date
4 November 2008
Reference
DEP2008-2581
House
House of Commons
We are at one about that, but I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman's definition of refinement and mine are the same. There are serious doubts about whether the Bill as it stands achieves what we all support—compatibility with the European Court's decision, and unions' ability to expel fascists...
Member
Tony Lloyd (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
4 November 2008
Reference
482 c199-200
House
House of Commons
I do not mean to be unkind, but I can help the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly)—I think he was referring to new clause 6, which stands in my name and those of other hon. Members. A principle lies behind the new clause and the associated amendments, and in...
Member
Tony Lloyd (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
4 November 2008
Reference
482 c192
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what regulations cover the minimum space requirements for (a) poultry, (b) sheep, (c) pigs, (d) cows and (e) other livestock during transportation by (i) rail, (ii) road and (iii) water; and what the minimum requirement is in each...
Asked by
Stephen O'Brien (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
3 November 2008
Reference
482 c151W; 232037
House
House of Commons
I agree with some of what has just been said by the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso). I recently asked my local chamber of commerce what challenges faced businesses in St. Albans. It listed a wide range of problems, but most of them involved cash...
Member
Anne Main (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
30 October 2008
Reference
481 c1065-7
House
House of Commons
My Lords, this is a remarkable amendment to have been proposed in the House of Commons in view of the statement that the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, made in this House in January. I have listened carefully to the noble Lord, Lord Walton of Detchant, and I think that he...
Member
Lord Mackay of Clashfern (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
29 October 2008
Reference
704 c1665-6
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 1. I shall speak also to Amendments Nos. 1, 4, 29, 49 to 52 and 54. Amendments in this group follow discussions in this House and relate to human admixed embryos. The...
Member
Lord Darzi of Denham (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
29 October 2008
Reference
704 c1601-2
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on what date (a) his Department and (b) the Advisory Committee on Pesticides was first informed by the manufacturers that the hormone-based weed killer aminopyralid or similar chemical formulations were capable of surviving ingestion by horses or cows,...
Asked by
George Howarth (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
27 October 2008
Reference
481 c621W; 229905
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I want to follow one or two of the points that have been made and say at once to my noble friend Lord Freeman, who is chairing the Select Committee, that it is a pity we are having this debate before we have his report. It would have...
Member
Lord Jenkin of Roding (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
22 October 2008
Reference
704 c1168-70
House
House of Lords
Certainly the issues are complex and certainly there has been a desire at an early stage for clarity. Whether we have all been swept along by that complexity is perhaps for others to judge. There is certainly a need for clarity, however, particularly in the definitions. I would like to...
Member
David Burrowes (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
22 October 2008
Reference
481 c347-8
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the potential for bluetongue to transfer to calves in utero from infected cows.
Asked by
Roger Williams (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
21 October 2008
Reference
481 c156W; 227325
House
House of Commons
Given that my hon. Friend is on his train of challenging sacred cows and listening to the views of our constituents, does he agree that we ought to be questioning whether uncontrolled EU migration should continue to be accepted?
Member
Ian Davidson (Labour; Cooperative Party)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
21 October 2008
Reference
481 c198
House
House of Commons
I would like to take a little further the argument that has just been put forward by my noble friend and look at the important question of how the courts would, or will, interpret Section 4 of the 2001 Act if the order relating to the Icelandic bank is brought...
Member
Lord Goodhart (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
21 October 2008
Reference
704 c1052
House
House of Lords
I declare an interest as a member of the national council of the Royal National Lifeboats Institution. May we have a statement or a short debate on Ofcom's proposals for changes to the charging regime for maritime radio users? Those proposed changes will see many voluntary organisations such as the...
Member
Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Business question
Date
16 October 2008
Reference
480 c932
House
House of Commons
I welcome my right hon. Friend to her new job; when the message ““Beckett is back”” went out, there was a huge cheer, because few Ministers have had as much grip as she did during her previous time in the Government. Last year in Yorkshire, two and a half times as many social dwellings run by councils were sold as were let. I invite my right hon. Friend, the Conservative Front Benchers and the hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell) to consider whether the sacred cow of the right to buy might now need some revisiting. We are in the business of burying Thatcherism; perhaps the right to buy is one sacred cow that might be considered for the sacrificial block.
Asked by
Denis MacShane (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Communities and Local Government
Oral question - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
14 October 2008
Reference
480 c656-7
House
House of Commons
My hon. Friend raises an interesting point that the House will have to deal with in the next year, which is that we have basically created a revenue regime that assumes successful and profitable financial services. We rely heavily on corporation tax receipts from the City and we rely on...
Member
George Osborne (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 October 2008
Reference
480 c704-5
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of cows born annually in the UK prior to 1996; what estimate he has made of the number of cows which will have been culled by the Government by the...
Asked by
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
29 September 2008
Reference
223517; 479 c2412W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of records relating to cows born in the UK before 1996 that have been lost; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
29 September 2008
Reference
479 c2412W; 223537
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many slaughterhouses available to cull cows born before 1996 there will be by the end of 2008; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
29 September 2008
Reference
223518; 479 c2422-3W
House
House of Commons
Type
Commons Briefing paper
Date
28 July 2008
Reference
SN04812
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the 10 highest payments made by his Department were under property compensation cases brought against it over the last 12 months for which figures are available; which of the cases were (a) contested and (b) uncontested by his Department; and what...
Asked by
John Hayes (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
22 July 2008
Reference
479 c1059W;479 c1057W; 216705
House
House of Commons
I concur. I hope that the Minister will reply to that important point. I agree that culling badgers is not a panacea. However, I would have liked the opportunity to discover whether a small, limited cull could have an impact on the disease. Despite being devastated and disappointed by the...
Member
Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
22 July 2008
Reference
479 c194-6WH
House
House of Commons
moved Amendment No. 167: 167: Clause 52, page 29, line 12, leave out from beginning to ““must”” in line 13 The noble Baroness said: This amendment would remove a possible conflict of interests that would be created if the local authority received the proceeds of any financial penalties rather than...
Member
Baroness Verma (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
17 July 2008
Reference
703 c1425-6
House
House of Lords
The difficulty with the parking regulations is that, although the same strictures on local authorities are in place, they are not enforced. It has become government policy not to enforce the requirement that receipts from parking regulations are used only on parking control functions, so they have become a cash...
Member
Lord Lucas (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
17 July 2008
Reference
703 c1427
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to make a funding allocation through the Building Schools for the Future programme for the rebuilding of Cowes High School on the Isle of Wight; and to which organisation such an allocation will be made.
Asked by
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
7 July 2008
Reference
478 c1401W; 216184
House
House of Commons
I thank my hon. Friend for his words, although I must point out that I have not ignored anyone's opinions, including those of Sir David King, but considered them all extremely carefully. There is a three and a half year injectable badger vaccine field trial under way, and work is...
Member
Hilary Benn (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
7 July 2008
Reference
478 c1160
House
House of Commons
My Lords, according to the World Health Organisation, overweight people now outnumber the malnourished. That is not a boast; it is an indictment. One billion people in the developed world are overweight; 300 million are obese. In sharp contrast, we heard the noble Lord, Lord Taverne, saying that more than...
Member
Lord Bilimoria (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
3 July 2008
Reference
703 c366-9
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I am very new to this brief and have tried to prepare for this event, but I did not work out how many questions there would be. I have done a quick calculation and if I answer them all, they will get 10 seconds each. I thank the...
Member
Lord Tunnicliffe (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
3 July 2008
Reference
703 c385-9
House
House of Lords
In what year is it anticipated that the Cowes high school on the Isle of Wight will be rebuilt?
Asked by
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Oral question - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
30 June 2008
Reference
478 c577
House
House of Commons
It is up to the hon. Gentleman's friends in the Isle of Wight council to come forward with the appropriate plans. We have increased tenfold the amount of capital allocation to local authorities. As I have just explained, we are currently consulting—that will finish this week—on the authorities that are in waves seven to 15 of the BSF programme. That includes the Isle of Wight. If it can put in a good enough proposal that meets the criteria that will be agreed at around the turn of the year and that includes Cowes high school, it is possible that the rebuilding could be moved forward.
Answered by
Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Type
Oral answer to question
Date
30 June 2008
Reference
478 c577
House
House of Commons
I was inspired to contribute to the debate after a meeting held last week by Sir Ben Gill, who gathered together 100 brains from different parts of the United Kingdom to consider the issue. The problem with such debates is that 100 issues come flooding out into the ether, rather...
Member
Ian Gibson (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
30 June 2008
Reference
478 c678-82
House
House of Commons
The Secretary of State has said that the"““poorest can't get enough food””." He is right, but failing in the UK makes that problem worse in the rest of the world. He moved from the previous DEFRA position, and we welcome that U-turn. He is a nice chap; he waves his...
Member
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
30 June 2008
Reference
478 c692-4
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Luce, for raising this debate, which has turned out to be an important one. A declaration of my personal interests will reveal the area that I want to cover. For many years, I have been a medical academic but...
Member
Baroness Murphy (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
26 June 2008
Reference
702 c1570-1
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which harbours from Lymington to Dartford and in the Isle of Wight are subject to open port duty regulations.
Asked by
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
24 June 2008
Reference
213189; 478 c174-5W
House
House of Commons
moved Amendment No. 53: 53: Before Clause 80, insert the following new Clause— ““Use of biomethane (1) In section 32(8) of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) (obligation in connection with electricity from renewable sources), in the definition of ““renewable sources””, insert at the end ““and shall include the use...
Member
Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
24 June 2008
Reference
702 c603-5GC
House
House of Lords
I will not give way, because there is not much time. We have differed in our approaches over the way in which we believe the health service should operate. There has been too much of a propensity—certainly under this Government, but also under Conservative Governments in the past—for politicians to...
Member
Simon Burns (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
24 June 2008
Reference
478 c248-9
House
House of Commons
My parents were of the generation who were young adults in the second world war and they brought up their family in the years that followed. I remember that debt was anathema to them. If people could not save to buy something for cash, they could not have it. We...
Member
Stephen Ladyman (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
18 June 2008
Reference
477 c1052-5
House
House of Commons
Indeed. To follow on from what my hon. Friend says, it was under huge pressure that DFID put people into the provincial reconstruction team in Lashkar Gah, but since they arrived there, they have found it hard to leave the compound. When they do, it is mainly to visit the...
Member
Adam Holloway (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
17 June 2008
Reference
477 c178-82WH
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cows were slaughtered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis in a gamma interferon blood test in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
11 June 2008
Reference
477 c269W; 208241
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of cows receiving positive (a) gamma interferon blood tests and (b) skin tests for bovine tuberculosis were subsequently demonstrated to be clear of the disease at post mortem in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
11 June 2008
Reference
477 c268-9W; 208239
House
House of Commons
My Lords, there is no doubt that if this election were to result in a stolen result, not just the people of Zimbabwe but the international community would say, ““Enough is enough. This cannot be allowed to stand””. However, the evidence we are receiving is that, far from being cowed by this violence, the people of Zimbabwe are being spurred by it to turn in ever greater numbers to the opposition. I suspect, therefore, that we may still see the spirit of democracy prevail in this barren, difficult, oppressive environment.
Answered by
Lord Malloch-Brown (Labour)
Type
Oral answer to question
Date
10 June 2008
Reference
702 c481-2
House
House of Lords
My Lords, it is deeply moving to see the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, here today as a surprise appearance in the gap. He has added lustre to the quality of the debate, but his remarks were very predictable. I am sure that the Minister will deal with some of them....
Member
Lord Dykes (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
5 June 2008
Reference
702 c352-5
House
House of Lords
My Lords, this is an important subject. In the town where I live, the Colne in Bloom volunteers certainly do much litter-picking. I should declare an interest as a member of a principal litter authority—namely, Pendle Borough Council—which, in the league table produced in April, came fifth among authorities in the north-west. We are doing all right, but not well enough. Will the Minister agree that there is still some difficulty in two-tier areas over the demarcation between the county highways authorities and the main litter authority, which is the district? For example, when it comes to removing dead animals, the litter authority is responsible for small ones such as cats, dogs and hedgehogs while big animals like pigs, cows or elephants are the county’s responsibility.
Asked by
Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat)
Oral question - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 May 2008
Reference
701 c1351
House
House of Lords
Of course I am not trying to mislead the House. I genuinely believe that what I am saying is the truth, as my conscience tells me. I would not dream of trying to mislead the House. My conscience tells me that an embryo is not a thing. It has been...
Member
Edward Leigh (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
19 May 2008
Reference
476 c26
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman has mentioned false arguments, but the arguments that he is advancing are remarkably similar to those used by those in the Churches and elsewhere who opposed vaccination. Those people believed that it was uncertain that vaccination would provide the benefits claimed by scientists and that it was...
Member
Chris Bryant (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
19 May 2008
Reference
476 c27
House
House of Commons
At the height of the furore surrounding post office closures on the Isle of Wight, many of my constituents wrote to me voicing their concerns. For them, their local post office served not only as a place to collect pensions and to send letters, but as a vital source of...
Member
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 May 2008
Reference
475 c456-7WH
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he has taken to reduce the incidence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in animals.
Asked by
David Drew (Labour; Cooperative Party)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1323W; 203489
House
House of Commons
I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. We should use cord blood as a resource; the Anthony Nolan Trust is involved in setting up a cord blood bank for that very purpose, and that is wholly admirable. However, it does not detract from the need to provide for saviour...
Member
Desmond Turner (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1128
House
House of Commons
Over the past weeks and months, I have read the Hansard transcripts of the many hours of debate on the Bill in the House of Lords, and I have followed the subsequent debates and controversies in leading newspapers and on the television. Before immersing myself in Hansard, I had only...
Member
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1132-5
House
House of Commons
No. I have given way twice; I shall not do so again. I do not have the time. As soon as the admixed embryos were licensed, I remember the tabloid headlines—““Human-Cow Embryos in the UK!”” I had visions of the bovine equivalents of centaurs trotting down the streets. It was...
Member
Desmond Turner (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1128-9
House
House of Commons
Once we start arguing about when the human personality acquires a soul or when it becomes recognisable as such—personally, I would not get involved in debating that—there is great difficulty. I understand that a majority on General Synod of the Church of England have confirmed that they do not regard...
Member
Lord Clarke of Nottingham (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1096-7
House
House of Commons
Greater breakthroughs than we have seen in the past are necessary. Of the three main controversial issues in the Bill, I am instinctively against human admixed embryos, for moral reasons. I make no bones about that. Mixing the life essence of humans and animals is plain wrong, and a slippery...
Member
Gary Streeter (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
12 May 2008
Reference
475 c1107
House
House of Commons
My Lords, the noble Baroness who initiated this debate and chaired the committee which produced this important report has, not for the first time, rendered a very considerable service to the House, to medicine and, above all, to those afflicted by illness. This allergy report was produced by the Science...
Member
Lord Crickhowell (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
8 May 2008
Reference
701 c768-70
House
House of Lords
I agree very strongly with that. I would like to draw on my own experience—the best way for me to contribute—rather than provide mere assertion on that and other issues. When I became Secretary of State for Social Security, I was told about all the skeletons in the cupboard. There...
Member
Lord Lilley (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
7 May 2008
Reference
475 c747-50
House
House of Commons
Type
Commons Briefing paper
Date
2 May 2008
Reference
RP08-42
I just want to correct the hon. Gentleman. He referred to the move towards fixed-odds betting terminals as one of the unforeseen consequences of the Gambling Act 2005. They were well foreseen, particularly by those who now operate that sort of gambling; they saw it as an absolute cash cow...
Member
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
28 April 2008
Reference
475 c83
House
House of Commons
rose to call attention to the environmental importance of areas of outstanding natural beauty; and to move for Papers. The noble Lord said: My Lords, this seems a sudden step away from the drama and tragedy that is Zimbabwe to the relative tranquillity of the British countryside, but I am...
Member
Lord Renton of Mount Harry (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
3 April 2008
Reference
700 c1191-4
House
House of Lords
My Lords, like others here, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Renton, for initiating this debate. I shall speak about the Isle of Wight, the South Downs National Park and then three issues that relate to this debate: the place of the churches, which relates to it directly, and then...
Member
Bishop of Portsmouth (Bishops (affiliation))
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
3 April 2008
Reference
700 c1200-2
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2008, Official Report, column 1123W, on cattle, if he will make it his policy to collect information on the number and proportion of cows in the national herd which are being...
Asked by
Lynne Jones (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
2 April 2008
Reference
197110; 474 c914W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what dosage will be necessary for vaccinating each (a) sheep and (b) cow against bluetongue;
Asked by
Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
31 March 2008
Reference
474 c488W; 195782
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I join in the general thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Trumpington, for raising this useful debate. Indeed, it was daunting for an admiral to look at the expertise among the speakers on this subject. I have learnt a great deal today and I am sure that all...
Member
Lord West of Spithead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
20 March 2008
Reference
700 c403-9
House
House of Lords
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of cows in the national herd which are being kept in zero-grazed conditions.
Asked by
Lynne Jones (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
19 March 2008
Reference
193224; 473 c1123W;473 c1119W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he was first advised that the RSPCA were seeking in December 2007, to euthanise the cow, Gangotri, at Bhaktivedanta Manor under the terms of the Animal Welfare Act 2006; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
19 March 2008
Reference
473 c1122W;473 c1118W; 194382
House
House of Commons
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. In the light of the recent discovery of viremic calves and the possibility of maternal transmission of bluetongue, does he agree that it is vital that we understand the overwintering process for bluetongue? What funding has been made available to the Institute for Animal Health to research this issue? Further, does the noble Lord agree that it would give farmers a lot more confidence in Defra if the officials who compiled the leaflet Bluetongue: How to spot the disease knew the difference between sheep and cattle and that you do not vaccinate a recumbent cow?
Asked by
Countess of Mar (Crossbench)
Oral question - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
18 March 2008
Reference
700 c139-40
House
House of Lords
My Lords, could my noble friend help a non-farmer like me? Is it safe to eat meat from a cow that has bluetongue? If it is, what are we worrying about? We can let the whole lot have bluetongue and save a lot of government money.
Asked by
Lord Berkeley (Labour)
Oral question - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
18 March 2008
Reference
700 c141
House
House of Lords
My Lords, it is worrying about what happened with the exports from the Netherlands to Northern Ireland in January. I cannot give a figure for the money, but research is going on to see whether there is a possibility of oral transfer mechanisms or transfers from cows to calves of bluetongue because that has not been thought to be the issue to date. Work is going on across Europe on the issue. The EU Commission has looked at it, but the evidence base is incomplete, so further work is being undertaken. On the second point, perhaps I may say how grateful I am to the noble Countess for drawing my attention to this lapse in technical efficiency as soon as she discovered it rather than waiting to cause me acute embarrassment at the Dispatch Box. As she will realise, the website was changed by around noon today so that it now shows the clinical signs in cattle accompanied by photographs of cattle and the clinical signs in sheep accompanied by photographs of sheep. The one thing I would say in defence is that there was a separate area on the website of the clinical signs of bluetongue accompanied by photographs, all of which were accurate. However, the leaflet was not. This is a lapse that I regret.
Answered by
Lord Rooker (Labour)
Type
Oral answer to question
Date
18 March 2008
Reference
700 c139-40
House
House of Lords
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The purpose of this Bill is to bring clarity to an area of law that has been beset with controversy and confusion in recent years, leading to enormous negative practical consequences for interested parties. I am talking...
Member
Stephen Crabb (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c514-5
House
House of Commons
I have not studied the form of the insurance industry in relation to the equestrian industry. That is a matter for the insurance industry. It is a belief among those in the equestrian industry that premiums will go down. If the insurance industry is advancing to particular businesses the argument...
Member
Jonathan Shaw (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c538-9
House
House of Commons
I welcome the Bill and pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mr. Crabb) for his hard work and for using the opportunity of being drawn in the ballot to introduce it. I also pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury (Mr. Robertson),...
Member
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c530-2
House
House of Commons
I am grateful for what I think was an intervention on me. It is a considerable achievement for the hon. Gentleman to introduce the Bill, and his energy and dedication are to be commended. The case for amending the Act is, we think, persuasive. Since the legislation was passed, there...
Member
Jonathan Shaw (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c537-8
House
House of Commons
I understand where the hon. Gentleman wants to go with this line of inquiry, but it is not true that the vast majority are not insured. The vast majority of claims are covered by the negligence-based route. We are talking about only a very small proportion of claims in the...
Member
Stephen Crabb (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c520-1
House
House of Commons
I sense that the hon. Gentleman is trying to broaden the discussion from what my Bill is designed to achieve, which is to clarify the circumstances in which strict liability will apply. It is not about removing strict liability and leaving it all to the common law; it is about...
Member
Stephen Crabb (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c521-2
House
House of Commons
I am delighted to hear that my hon. Friend finds Mirvahedy straightforward. That is another compliment to his extraordinary forensic brain. However, I seem to remember that in McKenny v. Foster there was a long discussion about the psychology of a cow on a road and the degree of agitation...
Member
Stephen Pound (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c551-2
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, and he may well be right. Obviously it is far better for cases to be settled than fought, but serious cases will tend at least to be litigated, even if no judgment follows. The figures that I gave earlier showing a decline in...
Member
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c582-4
House
House of Commons
We are looking for clarification of a particular situation. My hon. Friend's example takes us into a wider issue, which would not be suitable for a private Member's Bill of this type. A great deal more parliamentary scrutiny would be needed to deal with such an issue. If strict liability...
Member
Jonathan Shaw (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c541-2
House
House of Commons
I must take us back to where I began. It is essential that we understand that this is clarifying the law. We do not want the current set of circumstances to continue, whereby in any situation someone can be liable for the way an animal acts despite their acting responsibly...
Member
Jonathan Shaw (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c544-5
House
House of Commons
I would simply say to my hon. Friend that if it is his cow, it is his responsibility. That is my answer to his question. That particular case came to a different conclusion, and we will perhaps talk about that later and analyse the decisions in that case. If my...
Member
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c552
House
House of Commons
If that is the case, she will know that the debate turns on section 2(2)(b) of the Animals Act 1971 and the efforts of the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire to change its wording. The problem is that the origins of section 2 go back to the principle of scienter—to...
Member
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c562
House
House of Commons
Of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We need to examine the law of negligence, and the starting point for that is the excellent text of the 17th edition of ““Winfield and Jolowicz on Tort””, which sets out the present position in short form. Chapter 16 states:"““At common law a person might...
Member
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c563-5
House
House of Commons
That may be true, but it is a dangerous wild animal according to the 1976 Act. I think that its drafters erred on the side of caution; the Act includes reptilian animals and spiders as well as the hippopotamus, the wild boar and the giraffe. I certainly do not think...
Member
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
14 March 2008
Reference
473 c573-7
House
House of Commons
We heard the Secretary of State say that he believes in cost-sharing. We also heard him say that he has ordered the bluetongue vaccine. Can he tell my constituents how much they should budget for this vaccine, per cow and per sheep?
Asked by
Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Topical question - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2008
Reference
473 c409
House
House of Commons
We are bombarded daily by images of Buttercup feeding peacefully among the daisies, but in reality, zero-grazed cows permanently confined in the cow version of battery hen production represent 10 per cent. of the national dairy herd. What plans does the Minister have to tackle the welfare and health problems encountered by these stressed, overworked battery cattle, which have high levels of lameness, mastitis, infertility and acidosis?
Asked by
David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Cooperative Party)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Topical question - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2008
Reference
473 c408-9
House
House of Commons

[Bill 18 of 2007-08]
Type
Commons Briefing paper
Date
12 March 2008
Reference
RP08-25
Thank you, Mr. Chope, for calling me to speak in this debate. First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) on securing this important debate and I am glad that he put on the record that Humberside no longer exists as an administrative area. Other hon....
Member
Shona McIsaac (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
11 March 2008
Reference
473 c35-7WH
House
House of Commons
My Lords, this may be a short debate, but to many people it is an exceedingly important one. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Byford, for initiating it. I must declare an interest as I have a Highland pony stud and several breeds of sheep. I start by saying that...
Member
Baroness Masham of Ilton (Crossbench)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
10 March 2008
Reference
699 c1379-80
House
House of Lords
I would take the hon. Gentleman through the miscalculations—[Hon. Members: ““Go on!””] If I am to allow the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) to get in, I cannot go down that route. We are considering the failure of the unbridled privatisation of the London underground. Tube Lines has a...
Member
Clive Efford (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
10 March 2008
Reference
473 c105
House
House of Commons
I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Beaumont of Whitley for initiating this debate on using less oil and gas through replacement with renewables. Climate change has not been mentioned a great deal. Of course, a large number of Peers have used the Committee stage of the Climate Change Bill...
Member
Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
6 March 2008
Reference
699 c186-8GC
House
House of Lords
Is it possible to hold a debate on tourism next week, given that the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport decided on Tuesday to attack one of the great British institutions, the Proms, because not enough people from different backgrounds felt comfortable with it? Why did she stop there? Why...
Member
Nigel Evans (Conservative)
Type
Business question
Date
6 March 2008
Reference
472 c1921;472 c1919
House
House of Commons
I reassure my hon. Friend that I always set out my own election address. The party tends to offer a format, which I have never adopted because I wish to express my personal views to my constituents. One thing that nobody in my constituency can complain about is that they...
Member
David Curry (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
5 March 2008
Reference
472 c1847-8;472 c1845-6
House
House of Commons
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am most grateful for this opportunity to call for the Second Reading of my Bill. I am also grateful to the large number of colleagues in all parts of the House who have given up their...
Member
Julian Brazier (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
29 February 2008
Reference
472 c1352-4
House
House of Commons
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans). As ever, he spoke a lot of common sense and, as we all know, he speaks with the experience of running a small business. I totally accept my hon. Friend's point that the Bill...
Member
Philip Davies (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
22 February 2008
Reference
472 c695
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many holdings with dairy cows in each county in England there were in each year since 2001.
Asked by
James Paice (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
21 February 2008
Reference
472 c917-22W; 185648
House
House of Commons
asked Her Majesty's Government:In relation to the 23 primary schools in the Isle of Wight under threat of closure under the ““best case scenario””, what was the conclusion of the latest Ofsted report on the island's other primary schools.
Asked by
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written question
Status
Answered
Date
19 February 2008
Reference
1812; 699 c50WA
House
House of Lords

(Bill 67 of 2007-08)
Type
Commons Briefing paper
Date
18 February 2008
Reference
RP08-18
Minister
Jeff Rooker
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
European scrutiny ministerial correspondence
Date
6 February 2008
Reference
MC 3624
I am grateful to Mr. Speaker for granting me this Adjournment debate. He knows that I have been attempting to get Ministers to account to the House—and, through me, to my constituents—for an utterly unexplained piece of Government policy. He must have been driven mad by my persistence. I do...
Member
Lord Garnier (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contribution
Date
29 January 2008
Reference
471 c287-9
House
House of Commons

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