Asked by: Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Article 10 certificates for ivory items have been (a) applied for and (b) issued in the last 10 years for which records are available.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
These are listed in the table below:
Date | Ivory Article 10 applications Received (a) | Ivory Article 10 certificates Issued (b) |
2006 | 35 | 31 |
2007 | 62 | 42 |
2008 | 64 | 61 |
2009 | 47 | 39 |
2010 | 63 | 42 |
2011 | 25 | 21 |
2012 | 68 | 55 |
2013 | 48 | 43 |
2014 | 63 | 53 |
2015 | 112 | 87 |
2016 to 07/12/16 | 58 | 57 |
Asked by: Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many exports categorised as (a) B1250 and (b) 16 01, under Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006, have been investigated by UK Border Force in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
None.
The four environment agencies are the competent authorities of destination and dispatch under the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007.
Neither the Environment Agency nor the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has undertaken any recent investigations. Natural Resources Wales and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency have investigated exports of end-of-life vehicles, as set out below. A number of these investigations are ongoing.
Year | Number of end-of-life vehicles |
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2010 | 0 |
2011 | 0 |
2012 | 1 |
2013 | 6 |
2014 | 3 |
2015 | 1 |
2016 (to end Oct) | 3 |
Source: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Natural Resources Wales
Asked by: Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many exports of end-of-life vehicles were found to (a) not have and (b) have the required consent for each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The number of end-of-life vehicles found not to have the required consent is set out in the answer to PQ 54514. No figures are available for the numbers of end-of-life vehicles that had consent because vehicles categorised as B1250 are classed as green list waste, which is not automatically subject to notification.
Asked by: Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support the Indian government in its efforts to protect Indian elephants.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The then Prime Minister David Cameron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in London in November 2015 and issued a joint statement in which they resolved to work together to improve protection for both captive and wild Asian elephants. Further official level discussions have taken place with the Indian High Commission to clarify the issues and discuss specific areas on which we might work constructively beyond the international forums such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which already exist.
Within CITES the UK has led on securing agreement to measures to increase focus on protecting Asian elephants. These include the strengthening of national legislation and enforcement to combat illegal trade in live Asian elephants, for range countries to develop strategies to manage their captive domestic populations and to develop and apply a regional registration and marking system covering domestic Asian elephants.