Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I intervene very briefly to support what the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, has just said, particularly with respect to medical research. I have looked up which kinds of animals were used in the development of treatments and vaccines for Covid-19 in the last couple of years. They include …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness and see her so loyally supporting my Government—and in the Lobbies as well, no doubt.
I shall add a point to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Trees, and, in reference to the point made by the …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendments 9, 11, 33 and 37 in this group, which are in my name. Noble Lords will be glad to know that I have torn up three-quarters of my speech to speed things up. I declare my interest as a fortunate owner …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I am obviously a little disappointed that my brilliant suggestion about the Cabinet Office committee has not fallen on more fertile ground. To use an analogy, you would keep a sheep dog in a kennel rather than with the sheep, but I will not pursue that one. I …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I shall just comment very briefly on what my noble friend has just said. I disagreed with him on one point, when he said that there were no leading lights in the science of sentience. I draw his attention to a wonderful book published by Oxford University Press …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, animal sentience is a fact, not a principle, let alone a policy. We have recognised this in law for a very long time. The entirety of animal welfare legislation assumes animal sentience and, rightly, that it is a thing of degree rather than kind. One of the effects …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 21 Jan 2021
Heritage Organisations: Coal Supplies
"My Lords, I declare my interest as someone from whose land in Northumberland coal was being extracted until last year, including for heritage railways. The Minister will know that the Government refused permission for a further surface mine at Highthorn in Northumberland, disagreeing in the process with the county council, …..."Viscount Ridley - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 30th November 2020
Asked by:
Viscount Ridley (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many emergency derogations to use non-organic antimicrobial products were authorised to certified organic producers of (1) beef cattle, (2) dairy cattle, (3) sheep, (4) goats, and (5) pigs, in England in each of the past three calendar years.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Individual derogations are not offered for the use of non-organic antibiotics for organic livestock. Organic farmers may use non-organic antibiotics when necessary, if they have exhausted the possibilities for treatment using other measures.
This decision is under the responsibility of the veterinarian caring for the livestock. Records are kept and maintained by the producer and are referred to as part of annual and ad hoc inspections carried out by Organic Control Bodies. Therefore, no centralised records exist.
In cases where an animal requires non-organic antibiotics more than three times within 12 months, or more than one course of treatment in total if their productive lifecycle is less than one year, it cannot be sold as organic.
Written Question
Monday 30th November 2020
Asked by:
Viscount Ridley (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated area of certified organic potatoes treated in England during 2020 with copper hydroxide under the emergency derogation granted by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Emergency authorisation to use a product containing copper hydroxide on organic potatoes was granted for England only following an application from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. The application stated that the total area of organic potatoes grown across the UK was 800 hectares and that treatment of the full area might be required. The Government does not currently have a figure for the area that was actually treated. However, the stewardship programme agreed with AHDB requires that this information is collected and is submitted with any future application for a similar emergency authorisation.