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Strategic Defence and Security Review

Snap, Mr Deputy Speaker. This has been a fascinating debate so far, and I pay tribute to Members on both sides of the House for interesting and at times well informed contributions. It is extremely important that Members take it upon themselves to learn about and understand defence and the...

Member

Daniel Byles (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

16 September 2010

Reference

515 c1084-5

House

House of Commons

Topical Questions

Further to the response that the Secretary of State gave me earlier, does she believe that keeping cows indoors in cubicles for more than 10 months of the year when they are in milk, milking them three times a day instead of the usual two and their having an average lifespan of five years, as opposed to the natural lifespan of 20 years, is compatible with good animal welfare standards?

Asked by

Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Topical question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

9 September 2010

Reference

515 c462

House

House of Commons

Football Clubs (Governance)

I know that that club has an illustrious past. I remember that a prominent member of the Liverpool squad—Tony Hately—signed for Prescot Cables in later life, and he did well. We need to think about how we can move on. We have let the fans down badly by allowing people...

Member

Lord Watts (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

8 September 2010

Reference

515 c88-9WH

House

House of Commons

Crime and Policing

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake), who for a long time was a member of the Select Committee on Home Affairs. I congratulate him on his recent appointment as the Liberal Democrat spokesman on home affairs. It would be unfair...

Member

Keith Vaz (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

8 September 2010

Reference

515 c375-7

House

House of Commons

MEAT-FREE MONDAYS CAMPAIGN

That this House acknowledges UN figures which suggest that meat production is responsible for approximately 18 per cent. of global carbon emissions; further acknowledges that methane, emitted by cows and pigs, is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas; recognises that across the UK 1 million...

Primary sponsor

John Leech (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Early day motion

Date

6 September 2010

Reference

669

House

House of Commons

By-elections 2005 - 2010

Since 2005, 9 of the 14 by-elections have been won by the incumbent party. There has been a net gain to the Conservatives of two seats, after wins in Norwich North, and Crewe and Nantwich; a net gain of one seat to the Liberal Democrats, following a win in Dunfermline...

Type

Commons Briefing paper

Date

4 August 2010

Reference

RP10-50

Agriculture: Dairy Industry

My Lords, I am answering in respect of dairy. I think that means principally dairy cows.

Answered by

Lord De Mauley (Conservative)

Type

Oral answer to question

Date

26 July 2010

Reference

720 c1139

House

House of Lords

Agriculture: Dairy Industry

My Lords, is the Minister aware that, in the European Union, Britain is not atypical in subsidising each cow by £900 per annum? Is he further aware that in the two countries outside the EU that are much vaunted by Eurosceptics outside—that is, Switzerland and Norway—each cow is subsidised by £9,000 per annum?

Asked by

Lord Lea of Crondall (Labour)

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

26 July 2010

Reference

720 c1139

House

House of Lords

Agriculture: Dairy Industry

My Lords, do the Minister’s answers apply simply to farms that produce milk by cows or do they apply also to the increasing number of farms where the milk is produced by goats?

Asked by

Lord Scott of Foscote (Crossbench)

Oral question - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

26 July 2010

Reference

720 c1139

House

House of Lords

Finance Bill

My Lords, I have been in favour of a serious cut in the budget deficit since before the election. When I said that, I had no idea which Government would be in power so my desire for a budget cut had nothing to do with political preferences. We have heard...

Member

Lord Desai (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

26 July 2010

Reference

720 c1173-6

House

House of Lords

Sheffield Forgemasters

I have not heard any other reason. I have read out four reasons, all of which have been proved to be inaccurate and untrue. I shall read out some of the letter that Andrew Cook sent. There were lots of letters sent in during the review, but I think the...

Member

Clive Betts (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

21 July 2010

Reference

514 c525

House

House of Commons

Women in Society

My Lords, it is a pleasure to have the privilege of thanking and congratulating my noble friend Lord Deben on that outstanding, elegant speech. He is a devout Christian, a true parliamentarian, and many in this House would find it difficult to believe that it is 40 years since he...

Member

Baroness Seccombe (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

21 July 2010

Reference

720 c1006-8

House

House of Lords

Rural Communities

My Lords, the Motion refers particularly but not exclusively to uplands and remote communities in our country. I will broaden the perspective from my own diocese in Chester. It includes the western slopes of the Pennines and I look over the River Dee to the promised land of the uplands...

Member

Bishop of Chester (Bishops (affiliation))

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

15 July 2010

Reference

720 c817-9

House

House of Lords

Criminal Justice System

My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, for obtaining this timely debate, coming as it does between the landmark speech by the Secretary of State for Justice on 30 June and the promised Green Paper setting out how his aims are to be achieved. Since...

Member

Lord Ramsbotham (Crossbench)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

15 July 2010

Reference

720 c800-3

House

House of Lords

European External Action Service

The Commission does not have any choice, because the staff will be automatically moved into the EAS. The same applies to the Council. If each country approves the measure, through their parliamentary processes, the move will happen automatically, so I have confidence in the Commission. There are many areas where...

Member

Chris Bryant (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

14 July 2010

Reference

513 c1045-6

House

House of Commons

Offshore Energy Industry

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Nevertheless, there are many reasons for the improvements in safety that have occurred. I think that the most important reason has been the dramatic change in the industry's attitude. We must constantly be vigilant, which is why we depend on the HSE. Its...

Member

Frank Doran (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

13 July 2010

Reference

513 c186-9WH

House

House of Commons

Finance Bill

My hon. Friend's intervention needs no comment from me, other than to say that it is an excellent example of the sort of practices that we need to bear down on. We pay a plethora of accountants and financial advisers to advise on how to invest our money wisely, and...

Member

Clive Efford (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

12 July 2010

Reference

513 c699

House

House of Commons

Dog Control Bill [HL]

The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 has attracted notoriety as a primary example of flawed legislation. It bears the hallmarks of being produced as a hurried response to a public outcry for action following a number of dog attacks, largely by Pit Bull-type dogs. Despite this, nearly 20 years later we...

Member

Lord Grantchester (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

9 July 2010

Reference

720 c494-8

House

House of Lords

Defamation Bill [HL]

My Lords, there were once two cows looking over a fence when a tanker passed by. On it was written, "Drink Co-op milk—pasteurised, sterilised, homogenised". One cow turned to the other and said, "Makes you feel plumb inadequate, doesn’t it?". [Laughter] That is something of my feeling today, following this...

Member

Lord McNally (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contribution

Date

9 July 2010

Reference

720 c475-81

House

House of Lords

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

(4) how many cattle herds were tested for bovine tuberculosis in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and in what percentage of those herds at least one cow tested positive.

Asked by

Christopher Chope (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written question

Status

Answered

Tabled on

30 June 2010

For answer on

5 July 2010

Answered on

7 July 2010

[holding answer 5 July 2010]: An effective TB testing audit process has already been drawn up and used to audit Animal Health staff engaged in TB testing. Consideration is currently being given as to how best to extend the audit process to all TB testers on an ongoing basis.The tuberculin skin test has a specificity of 99.9%, which means that when applied to cattle without TB in Great Britain, there is a one in 1,000 chance that a non-infected animal will be wrongly classified as a reactor. The probability of false positives is therefore 0.1%.A failure to detect lesions of TB through post-mortem inspections or to culture M.bovis (the causative organism of the disease) in the laboratory does not imply that a test reactor was not infected with bovine TB. In the early stages of the disease it is not always possible to observe lesions during post-mortem examination and, due to the fastidious nature of this organism it is very difficult to isolate it from tissue samples without lesions. The primary purpose of post mortem inspections and culture is not to establish the presence or absence of disease, but rather to identify the severity and strain of infection. It is therefore not possible to say what percentage of cattle slaughtered following positive bovine tuberculosis tests are found to be free of tuberculosis when tested after slaughter.During the last 12 months 42,262 cattle herds that were not under movement restrictions were tested for bovine Tuberculosis in England. Of these herds 7.9% had at least one animal test positive."Notes:""Data from Vetnet is produced three months in arrears and the latest report available is for March 2010. Therefore data cannot be provided for the last three months.""Data from Vetnet is provisional and subject to change as more data becomes available.""Source:""Vetnet—Animal Health Database"

Subjects

Disease control; Bovine tuberculosis

Date

7 July 2010

Reference

6023; 513 c280-1W

House

House of Commons