Asked by: Lord Jopling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 30 October (HL2090), whether their intention is that farm products will continue to move without restriction between the UK and the remaining EU–27 after the UK's exit.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Government has been clear that it seeks a new partnership with the EU and a comprehensive customs agreement.
Asked by: Lord Jopling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the scientific study commissioned by the European Commission in the 1980s on the possible threat to the public from the implantation of growth-promoting hormones in cattle, which was not published at the time when the EU ban on the practice was imposed, has ever been made publicly available.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The report does not appear to have been made publicly available.
The European Commission published a study in 2002 by the EU Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to public health in 2002. This Opinion, and other recent scientific literature was considered by the UK independent Veterinary Products Committee, which consulted on the report and published it in 2006.
Asked by: Lord Jopling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of land in the Lake District National Park is in the ownership of (1) the National Trust, (2) the Lake District National Park Authority, and (3) private owners.
Answered by Lord De Mauley
We do not hold this information. However, the following indicative figures have been provided by the Lake District National Park Authority from its 2008 Landscape Character Assessment:
1) National Trust own approximately 25 per cent of the total land area of the Lake District National Park.
2) The Lake District National Park Authority own approximately 3.8 per cent of the total land area.
3) Approximately 66 per cent of the total land area is in private ownership.