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Grand Committee
Alcohol Licensing (Coronavirus) (Regulatory Easements) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) respect of a premises from 15 to 20 per year and increased the maximum number of days on which temporary events - Speech Link
2: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Con - Life peer) consumption and sale of alcohol in the outside pavement area.In the middle of one of the most joyless events - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It continues to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic; there are no remaining restrictions in - Speech Link

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General Committees
Alcohol Licensing (Coronavirus) (Regulatory Easements) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) I beg to move,That the Committee has considered the Alcohol Licensing (Coronavirus) (Regulatory Easements - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) licensed premises could have from 15 to 20 and increased the maximum number of days on which temporary events - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) The hospitality industry in particular is hampered by the cost of living crisis at the moment, as disposable - Speech Link

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Written Question

Fishing Catches: Cetaceans

Wednesday 29th November 2023

Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)

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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many cetaceans were caught in UK waters in 2022; and how that number compares to estimates of cetacean bycatch.

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

All cetaceans are fully protected in UK waters under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations. In the UK, it is an offence to deliberately disturb, harm, capture or kill wild cetaceans. We are not aware of any cetaceans being caught illegally in UK waters in 2022.

The UK introduced new rules in 2021 making it mandatory under fishing vessel licence conditions for fishers to report any marine mammal bycatch to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). On the introduction of this requirement, communications were sent out by Defra, the Devolved Administrations and the MMO to ensure that industry understood the new obligations.

This reporting is complemented by a range of other monitoring programmes.

The Government funds the UK Bycatch Monitoring Programme which uses onboard observers to estimate bycatch rates and high-risk gear types. The 2022 annual programme report will be completed and published, once fishing effort figures for 2022 are finalised and can be integrated into bycatch estimates.

In addition, both the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) and the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme investigate the causes of death of stranded cetaceans around the UK coast to improve our understanding of, and ability to tackle, key threats like bycatch. CSIP strandings data are published in annual reports. Due to unprecedented events, including the coronavirus pandemic and the UK’s largest ever outbreak of avian influenza, the delivery of project reports has been delayed. The 2022 annual report will be finalised shortly and released in due course, following publication assurance processes.

Since 2020, Defra has also funded Clean Catch UK, a research programme which is developing and trialling a range of bycatch monitoring and mitigation measures. This programme has developed a bycatch self-reporting mobile application and an online ‘Bycatch Mitigation Hub’ with information on different approaches to reduce bycatch.

We recognise that accidental bycatch in fisheries is one of the greatest threats faced by cetaceans, and we remain fully committed to tackling this and addressing monitoring gaps. In 2022, the UK Government and Devolved Administrations published the UK Bycatch Mitigation Initiative (BMI). This outlines how the UK will achieve its ambitions to minimise and, where possible, eliminate the bycatch of sensitive marine species. As a core objective of the BMI, the Government will continue to build on existing monitoring work to improve our understanding of bycatch and entanglement of sensitive marine species.

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Select Committee

Creative UK

IPO0068 - Industrial policy

Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Industrial policy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: trade and representative bodies, arts and cultural organisations, heritage sites, international industry

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Parliamentary Research
Fiscal support for tourism and hospitality in coastal areas - CDP-2024-0035
Feb. 13 2024

Found: 1 Hospitality and tourism industri es 3 1.1 Hospitality industry 3 Staff shortages 4 1.2 Tourism

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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
HM Treasury

Mar. 01 2024

Source Page: Statement of Excesses 2022-23
Document: Statement of Excesses 2022-23 (web) (PDF)

Found: Governmental response to the coronavirus Covid ‑19 pandemic.

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Select Committee

University Carlos III of Madrid

FIL0040 - British Film and High-End Television

Written Evidence Nov. 14 2023

Inquiry: British Film and High-End Television
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: It is an industry arrangement agreed on by film distributors and cinema exhibitors.

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