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Untitled Debate on bill

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill. Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendments 1-101 agreed to.

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on bills

Date

7 April 2005

Reference

432 c1582-99

House

House of Commons

Untitled Committee of the Whole House (HL)

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill. Lords Committee stage. Clauses 1-3, 5-9, 11-6, 18-45, 47-60, 62-70, 72-4, 76-112,114-23, 125-8, 132-41, 144-66, 168-9 agreed to. Clauses 10 and 124 disagreed to. Clauses 4, 17, 46, 61, 71, 75 , 113, 129, 130-1, 142-3, 167, 173-4 agreed to as amended. Schedules 1-3,...

Lead member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Answering member

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

Department

Home Office

Type

Committee of the Whole House (HL); Debates on bills

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

671 c595-652,677-713

House

House of Lords

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the local authorities in England which ban circuses with performing animals.

Asked by

Shona McIsaac (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2005

Reference

432 c1082W; 223458

House

House of Commons

Return of expenditure incurred and prosecutions under the Animal Health Act 1981 and incidences of disease in imported animals for the year 2004.

Type

Unprinted papers

Date

22 March 2005

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on health of the use of antibiotics on farms; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Laurence Robertson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2005

Reference

432 c739W; 221687

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Statement on what the outcome was of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 14th March; what the Government's stance was on the issues discussed, including its voting record; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

Jim Hood (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 March 2005

For answer on

22 March 2005

Answered on

22 March 2005

Mr. Hood: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the outcome was of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 14 March; what the Government's stance was on the issues discussed, including its voting record; and if she will make a statement. [222546] Margaret Beckett: My hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Secretary, and I represented the United Kingdom at the meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels on 14 March 2005. Ministers responsible for fisheries and agriculture in Northern Ireland and Scotland were also present. The Council agreed a proposal concerning establishment of an EU Fisheries Control Agency, which the European Council had previously agreed to sit in Spain. We were able to support a compromise proposal for commission representation on the Agency's administrative board. The Commission reported progress in negotiations with the Russian Federation to agree certain plant and animal health controls. While the UK has not so far been among the member states most affected by Russian requirements, it was encouraging that progress was being made to resolve the remaining differences. The main item for discussion at this Council was Rural Development. The presidency focused discussion on a small number of issues in the current proposal to revise the Rural Development Regulation, principally focussing on the LEADER reserve and inviting comments on the Rural Development Strategy which it is planned to table in June. I reiterated the importance we attach to devoting at least half of the financial resources under the Regulation to environmental work, expressed some doubt as to the level of the LEADER reserve proposed and supported others in giving a general welcome to the likely shape of the strategy framework. The Commission presented a progress report on implementation of the EU forestry strategy. Member states took note. The Commission also presented proposals for EU measures to address market crises through new risk management techniques in the industry. This was a brief presentation, with substantial discussion planned for later in the year. The Commission made it clear that it opposed extending any kind of generalised safety net provision such as that found in the current beef regime. It also indicated that the use of any modulated funds would only be possible in the context of rural development programmes and measures that were compatible with the WTO Green Box. Under Any Other Business, we raised the question of cetacean by catches and the need for greater protection of dolphins. The Commission undertook to call for international research on the subject to be accelerated. Portugal drew attention to the difficulties that prolonged drought had caused in its rural areas. Over lunch, the Commission updated Ministers on the WTO agriculture negotiations. I welcomed recent progress and reminded the Council of the importance of making progress in good time for the Hong Kong Ministerial in December.

Date

22 March 2005

Reference

432 c636-7W; 222546

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the regulated procedures conducted in Scotland in 2003 under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were performed in (a) public health laboratories, (b) universities and medical schools, (c) National Health Service hospitals, (d) Government departments, (e) other...

Asked by

John Robertson (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 February 2005

For answer on

16 March 2005

Answered on

16 March 2005

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what proportion of the regulated procedures conducted in Scotland in 2003 under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were performed in (a) public health laboratories, (b) universities and medical schools, (c) national health service hospitals, (d) Government Departments, (e) other public bodies, (f) non-profit making organisations and (g) commercial organisations; [218764] (2) what proportion of the regulated procedures conducted in Scotland in 2003 under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were carried out for (a) toxicological purposes and (b) non-toxicological purposes; [218765] (3) how many of the regulated procedures conducted in Scotland in 2003 under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 involved (a) cats, (b) dogs, (c) rabbits, (d) horses and other equids, (e) New World primates and (f) Old World primates; and how many involved (i) genetically modified animals and (ii) animals with a harmful genetic defect; [218777] (4) what proportion of the project licences granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 that were in force in Scotland at the end of 2003 were in (a) mild, (b) moderate, (c) substantial and (d) unclassified severity bandings. [218837] Caroline Flint: The latest statistical information of this kind is in the publication Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2003 (Command 6291, available in the House Library). Separate figures are produced for Northern Ireland. However as the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 is administered by the Home Office for England, Wales and Scotland, the comprehensive data produced in Command 6291 relate to Great Britain as a whole, and are not broken down into the constituent geographical areas. The provision of information just relating to Scotland has therefore required a special exercise. The figures are our best estimate and may be subject to a margin of error because our systems are not normally set up to provide a breakdown on the lines asked for. In 2003, the percentage of scientific procedures using animals in Scotland, broken down by various types of establishment, are given in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Type of establishment Percentage Public health laboratories 0.0 Universities and medical schools 37.0 NHS hospitals 0.0 Government Departments 1.5 Other public bodies 37.1 Non-profit making organisations 0.0 Commercial concerns 24.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In 2003 the procedures carried out in Scotland for toxicological purposes amounted to 16 per cent., and for non-toxicological purposes 84 per cent. In 2003, the numbers of procedures carried out in Scotland on certain species, or animals with a certain genetic status are shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Species of animal, or genetic status Number Cat 38 Dog 1,269 Rabbit 6,973 Horses and other equids 2,821 New world primate 282 Old world primate 879 Animals with harmful genetic defect 125,527 Genetically modified animals 14,901 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In 2003, the numbers of project licences in force in Scotland at the end of the year, in each severity band, were as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number Mild 158 Moderate 239 Substantial 9 Unclassified 15 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Legislation

Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

Date

16 March 2005

Reference

432 c310-2W;432 c308-10W; 218764;218765;218777;218837

House

House of Commons

BEAR BAITING IN PAKISTAN

That this House is concerned that bear baiting events are still taking place in Pakistan, even though it is prohibited by Pakistani legislation; notes that bears for baiting are captured from the wild, that their incisors and canine teeth are extracted and their muzzles pierced with a nose ring, and...

Primary sponsor

Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)

Type

Early day motions

Date

16 March 2005

Reference

946

House

House of Commons

Untitled Debate on bill

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. (Part 1 of 2)

Lead member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Answering member

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on bills

Date

14 March 2005

Reference

670 c1077-93,1106-98

House

House of Lords

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the cost of setting up a border inspection post for the entry of horses to the UK by sea and whether there is a Border Inspection Post for the entry of horses by sea...

Asked by

Jonathan Sayeed (Independent Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 March 2005

Reference

431 c1814W;431 c1809W; 218711;218716

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the impact of the Human Genome Project on (a) the total number of animals, (b) the number of genetically modified mice and (c) the number of genetically modified primates, that will be used in the next...

Asked by

Parmjit Dhanda (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 February 2005

For answer on

4 March 2005

Answered on

4 March 2005

Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the impact of the Human Genome Project on (a) the total number of animals, (b) the number of genetically modified mice and (c) the number of genetically modified primates, that will be used in the next few years. [218611] Caroline Flint: It is assumed that the question refers to animals used in scientific procedures. It is not possible to estimate the total number of genetically modified animals that will be used in that way over the next few years as a result of the Human Genome Project. That will be largely dependent on strategic research and funding decisions by the funding councils and the private sector, and the nature and quality of the resulting scientific proposals. Any impact the Human Genome Project does have may be offset by a reduction in the use of non-genetically modified animals. During 2003--the latest year for which figures are available--genetically modified animals were used in 764,000 regulated scientific procedures representing 27 per cent. of all procedures for 2003 compared with 26 per cent. in 2002 and 8 per cent. in 1995. Rodents-- nearly all mice--were used in 98 per cent. of these procedures. It is likely that this trend of a gradually increasing use of such animals over the last decade will continue as advances in genetic science open up new avenues of research, and this may well include work arising from the Human Genome Project. At present there is no use of genetically modified non- human primates licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, and we do not expect that to change in the foreseeable future. Any applications for licences to conduct such work would be referred for advice to the Animal Procedures Committee. Whatever the impact of the Human Genome Project we will continue, in administering the 1986 Act, only to license use of animals when we consider there is no alternative, and then only when both the number of animals to be used and any resulting suffering are minimised.

Date

4 March 2005

Reference

218611; 431 c1473-4W;431 c1467-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she had made of the effects the restructuring at the Institute for Animal Health will have on research into (a) BSE, (b) milk quality, (c) streptococcal pathogenicity, (d) pestiviruses, (e) porcine immunology, (f) avian pox virus,...

Asked by

Paul Beresford (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 March 2005

Reference

219738; 431 c1437W;431 c1431W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which countries are recorded as having endemic foot and mouth disease; what steps are taken to prevent direct or indirect imports from countries which have endemic foot and mouth disease. - Inc ref to http://www.oie/int/eng/info/en_fmd.htm.

Asked by

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 March 2005

Reference

431 c1167-8W; 217533;217534

House

House of Commons

Whitty, Lord

Whether the timetable laid down in Section 6(3) of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (No 2) Regulations is the same for all other European Union member states; and whether it is rigorously enforced by each of them. [HL 1279].

Asked by

Baroness Byford (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 March 2005

Reference

HL 1279; 670 c20WA

House

House of Lords

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the estimated revenue raised from (a) horse passports and (b) animal passports is.

Asked by

Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 February 2005

Reference

217529; 431 c926W;431 c922W

House

House of Commons

Untitled Written question

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Whitty on 4 February 2005, 669 c68-9WA, on what evidence (a) human toxicology data; (b) non-human mammalian toxicological data; (c) general practitioner medical records; (d) pesticide company doctor medical records; (e) Health and Safety Executive Employment Medical Advisory Service medical records; (f)...

Asked by

Countess of Mar (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 February 2005

Reference

HL 1364; 669 c233WA

House

House of Lords

Diseases of Animals (Fees for the Testing of Disinfectants) (England) Order 2005

SI 2005/379. (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 April 2005.

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

24 February 2005

Reference

SI 2005/379

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on planned legislation at European Communities level on animal protection; what target groups will be approached by Eurobarometer surveys established in preparation of such legislation under Commission decision 2004/920/EC of 27th December...

Asked by

John Hayes (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2005

Reference

430 c1652W; 215240

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes she plans to introduce to compensation arrangements for farm animals destroyed in epidemics. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Paul Flynn (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2005

Reference

430 c1651W; 215611

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animals slaughtered for (a) halal and (b) kosher meat were not stunned in the latest period for which figures are available. - Inc table.

Asked by

Bill Wiggin (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

17 January 2005

For answer on

27 January 2005

Answered on

27 January 2005

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many animals slaughtered for (a) halal and (b) kosher meat were not stunned in the latest period for which figures are available. [209746] Mr. Bradshaw: Information on the number of animals slaughtered for halal and kosher meat is not collected routinely. It has been gathered biennially by the Meat Hygiene Service on behalf of Defra, as part of the Animal Welfare Review. The latest Animal Welfare Review was published in March 2004. The review reports on one week of slaughtering practices. In the period 1-7 September 2003, the following animals were slaughtered without stunning. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Kosher Halal Cattle 726 -- Calves 16 -- Young lambs 1,704 5,141 Other sheep -- 11,454 Goats -- 62 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

27 January 2005

Reference

209746; 430 c457W

House

House of Commons

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