Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Foxes: HuntingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward a consultation on fox hunting.
Answer: As per our manifesto, this Government will ban trail hunting. Work to determine the best approach for doing so is ongoing and further announcements will be made in due course.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on imports of hunting trophies of species listed as (a) Near Threatened, (b) Vulnerable, (c) Endangered, (d) Critically Endangered and (e) Extinct in the Wild in the
Answer: The import of hunting trophies is regulated by the UK Wildlife Trade Regulations, which implements the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Where required, permits to import hunting trophies will only be...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on issuing import permits to hunting trophies of species listed in Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora).
Answer: The Animal and Plant Health Agency, an executive agency of Defra, is responsible for issuing import permits for hunting trophies. Appendix I species are the most strictly regulated species under CITES and import permits will only be issued if the criteria...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFurs: UK Trade with EUDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to seek an exemption in any veterinary agreement negotiated with the EU that would ensure the UK's ability to ban the import and sale of fur products.
Answer: We have reset our relations with European partners. We have been clear that an SPS agreement could boost trade and deliver significant benefits on both sides, and will be careful to ensure proposals are consistent with our manifesto and does not cross our...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRecycling: Public HousesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on the beer and pub sector.
Answer: In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector. The Government has worked closely with industry,...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with international counterparts on best practices for balancing the environmental benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility with economic sus
Answer: Defra and PackUK have engaged with multiple European and Canadian EPR schemes throughout development of pEPR, using international best practice to inform the drafting of the regulations. Many of the international EPR schemes are managed by Producer Respon...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on businesses in the UK compared to similar schemes in (a) France, (b) Germany and (c) Ca
Answer: In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not compare the impact of fees to international schemes. Illustrative base fee estim...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDogs: Animal Breeding and SmugglingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to introduce robust traceability of dogs across the UK.
Answer: Compulsory dog microchipping was introduced in England in 2016. All dogs must be microchipped before they are eight weeks old and relevant information including breeder details recorded with a Defra-compliant database operator which helps support traceabi...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordResponsible Dog Ownership Working GroupDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reconvene the Responsible Dog Ownership Working Group.
Answer: Defra is continuing to work with the police, local authorities and animal welfare groups to explore measures to reduce dog attacks and promote responsible dog ownership across all breeds of dog. We are currently considering the best way to take forward th...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTrout: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure oversight of the welfare of trout on farms in England.
Answer: Current legislation provides protection for farmed fish. The Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes it an offence to cause unnecessary suffering to any protected animal, including fish, or to fail to provide for the welfare needs of a protected animal, for which t...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCats and Dogs: Animal BreedingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Animal Welfare Committee Opinions on specialised dog reproductive practices and cat breeding practices, published on 19 December 2024, whether his Department is p
Answer: The Government welcomes the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinions on the welfare implications of specialised canine reproductive practices and on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices. We are carefully considering the Co...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Protected AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking ahead of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference to ensure the effective management of Marine Protected Areas.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are already protected from the point of designation by the planning and marine licensing regimes that cover activities such as dredgin...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Protected Areas: ReviewsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his department plans to ensure the forthcoming review of the English Marine Protected Area (MPA) network will deliver stronger protections for vulnerable marine habitats; and how i
Answer: Our MPAs represent our most precious marine resources. However, the MPA network is under pressure from a range of sources. The review which we announced in January will consider ways to future proof the network, for example in terms of climate change adap...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWildlife: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on steps to ensure that offences of (a) reckless and (b) negligent behaviour which causes harm to wildlife are appro
Answer: The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Ministry of Justice colleagues on a range of issues.
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWildlife: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect animal habitats from building developments.
Answer: Protected sites designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 afford a high degree of statutory protection to some of our most valuable habitats. We are committed to making sure develo...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrappingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the (a) use and (b) sale of (i) glue traps and (ii) wire snares.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. A ban on the use of glue traps is already in place. The Glue Traps (Offences) Act 2022 came into force in England on 31 July 2024. It prohibits the use of glue trap...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWildlife: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing guidance on ethical principles for licensing of wildlife management.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. Wildlife conflicts are often minor and tolerable, especially if basic avoidance measures are employed. If the problem is significant enough to warrant action, optio...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: SentencingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase penalties for crimes against wildlife so that they are in line with sentences for other animal welfare offences.
Answer: Defra has no current plans to increase the penalties for committing crimes against wildlife. Wildlife crime is unacceptable, and significant sanctions are already available for judges to hand down to those convicted of such crimes. Anyone who commits an o...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHunting: FoxesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission a review into the prevalence of fox hunting across England and Wales.
Answer: Defra has no current plans to commission a review into the prevalence of foxhunting. The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. The full details of ...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Basic IncomeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34756More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Joanna Poulton, Jak Richardson, Kathleen Pollitt and Cleo Goodman entitled Sowing the Seed
Answer: The report cited by the honourable member proposes a system of untargeted farming subsidy based on regular and unconditional cash payments made to farmers. Evidence suggests that untargeted subsidies such as the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and delinked pay...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHistoric England: Crime and Disorder Act 1998Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making Historic England a named body for the purposes of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Answer: Defra has made no such assessment as the Department is neither responsible for Historic England nor for the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternatives exist and under controls which keep suffering to a minimum. The GB pesticides r...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing on dogs in the last five years.
Answer: While we have not made an assessment of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing, the UK Government is committed to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research an...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurs: TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled the Fur Market in Great Britain, published on 31 May 2021, after the Animal Welfare Committee publishes
Answer: The call for evidence on the Fur Market in Great Britain was undertaken by the previous government and next steps will be announced in due course. Defra is continuing to build the evidence base on the fur sector. This includes commissioning our expert Ani...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurs: TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Animal Welfare Committee’s review of responsible sourcing of fur will be published before second reading of the Fur (Import and Sale) Bill on 13 June 2025.
Answer: Defra is continuing to build the evidence base on the fur sector. The Animal Welfare Committee’s opinion on the sustainable sourcing of fur is due to complete in 2025 and will be published on GOV.UK thereafter. As with all projects, the precise dates for ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
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