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Written Question
Fishing Limits
Tuesday 18th October 2022

Asked by: Caroline Dinenage (Conservative - Gosport)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy not to set catch limits for any stocks that are higher than those recommended by scientific advice in fisheries negotiations with the EU, Norway and North East Atlantic coastal states in the next year.

Answered by Mark Spencer

The United Kingdom advocates an approach towards setting Total Allowable Catches (TACs) which is founded on the best available scientific advice and which will maintain or rebuild sustainable fish stocks and fisheries. In addition, for a number of target stocks a further key consideration when setting the TACs is their interaction with other stocks caught in the same mixed fishery.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Sewage Discharges

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for securing the debate.

My Gosport constituency is a peninsula surrounded by Portsmouth harbour and the Solent’s waters, so we are a coastal community. We are also proudly protective of the ecology of the Solent. …..."
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Written Question
Cats: Tagging
Tuesday 19th July 2022

Asked by: Caroline Dinenage (Conservative - Gosport)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to bring forward regulations to introduce the compulsory microchipping of owned cats.

Answered by Baroness Prentis of Banbury

Our intention is to introduce a new, single set of microchipping regulations by the end of the year, which will incorporate changes to the Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations and add the new requirement for compulsory microchipping of cats.

This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only.

Written Question
Water: Pollution
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Caroline Dinenage (Conservative - Gosport)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review whether the requirement in The Bathing Water Regulations 2013 that sampling must be carried out between 15 May and 30 September should be expanded to all year round bathing water sampling.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

My officials are currently undertaking a review of bathing water policy in England.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Dec 2013
Badger Cull

"The hon. Gentleman has been generous in taking interventions. I want to make one quick point. During his opening remarks, he presented the issue as a red versus blue one, but it really is not. It is a black and white issue, not a red versus blue one, as many …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Oct 2013
Badger Vaccines

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Oct 2013
Badger Vaccines

"My hon. Friend has been incredibly generous with all the interventions, so I shall be brief. He mentioned that cost is often cited as the a reason for vaccinations not taking place, but does he agree that, if the cost of policing a badger cull is included, the cost difference …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 19 Jan 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. Bearing in mind the years of chaos and the continued uncertainty about the future development of the Port of Southampton, can the Minister tell me what conversations have taken place with the ports Minister about how the Marine Management Organisation operates?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2011
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. The Minister will be aware that the Fishery Protection Squadron is the oldest squadron in the Royal Navy. Does DEFRA see an enduring role for fishery protection within the Royal Navy once the current arrangements finish in 2013?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 06 Jul 2011
Dangerous Dogs

"I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) on securing this valuable debate. You will be pleased to hear, Mr Bayley, that my comments will be brief. I shall concentrate on the increasing incidences of status dogs—dogs that have been bred …..."
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