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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

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