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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill (Second sitting)

"Q I represent a Cumbrian constituency that is made up of English Lake district upland farms and coastal lowland farms. My sheep, beef and dairy farmers inform me that they receive about £70 for a lamb, £50 for a sheep and just 90p for wool per head and 29p …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill (Second sitting)

"Q Do you feel that the Bill as it stands does allow for that change to happen?

Huw Thomas: There are certainly powers within the Bill that would potentially see the strengthening of the farmer’s position within the supply chain. At NFU, we have been calling for more transparency …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Agriculture Bill

"I should like to begin by putting on record my thanks to all those who have worked incredibly hard to develop the Bill. For almost 50 years, this country has been bound by the common agricultural policy, with its legislative roots in the treaty of Rome. Policy has been dictated …..."
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Written Question
Marine Conservation Zones: Cumbria
Thursday 6th September 2018

Asked by: Trudy Harrison (Conservative - Copeland)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons it was decided (a) to include razorbills and (b) not to include common guillemots as an additional feature of the Cumbria Coast Marine Conservation Zone in the Government's June 2018 consultation on sites proposed for designation in the third tranche of Marine Conservation Zones.

Answered by Baroness Coffey

The inclusion in Marine Conservation Zones of highly mobile species, such as seabirds, is considered where it can be demonstrated that it would help meet the conservation objectives for that species. Numbers of razorbill at this site have shown a significant decline in recent years and their inclusion is therefore warranted. Numbers of common guillemot, by contrast, have more than doubled at this site over the same period and it was therefore decided that there was insufficient justification to include them as a feature in this Marine Conservation Zone. We look forward to receiving views on our proposals through the consultation, which will inform our final decisions.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"Q You have already explained that the UK Border Force is globally recognised, particularly around the illegal wildlife trade. Have the practices used by the UK Border Force been adopted by other countries around the world?

Grant Miller: Yes, they have. Most recently, we and the National Wildlife Crime …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"Q How do you identify the difference between elephant ivory and any other ivory?

Grant Miller: Elephant and mammoth ivory has distinctive markings called Schreger lines, and the angle of those lines will identify whether it is elephant or mammoth. Other ivory forms have very distinctive shapes or formations. …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"Q It sounds as if raw ivory—if that is how we might term it—is easier to identify, but once it has been crafted into an object, does that become much more difficult?

Grant Miller: If ivory is highly polished, the Schreger lines can become more difficult to identify, but …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"Q I feel that I should declare an interest as a pianist and the owner of a piano that may or may not have ivory keys—I have been doing some research, and they are not solid ivory keys but wooden keys with potentially ivory coating. This brings me to …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"What about post-1947 musical instruments with more than 20% ivory?

Paul McManus: There are virtually none. The most we could find was an accordion that was laden with ivory, but it still did not make 20%. We have some parity here across the ocean with the Americans, which is always …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Jun 2018
Ivory Bill (Second sitting)

"Q Is there any danger that the ivory from musical instruments could be collected and used in some way to make another object?

David Webster: But then you would destroy the instrument.

Paul McManus: You would also destroy the ivory by taking it off, frankly.

David Webster: You would …..."
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