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Review of the Defra Biodiversity Research Programme 1995-2008

28 and 29 September 2009 Innovation Centre, Reading

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Royal County Hotel

Review Meeting Venue: INNOVATION CENTRE, READING

5th Floor, Northgate House, 21 - 23 Valpy Street, Reading, RG1 1AR, Tel: 0118 955 7800

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Exit the platforms via the main barriers. If you arrive on platforms 5-9, you will need to go over the bridge and down the escalator. The Railair exit is closest to the Centre.

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Railair exit (by station M&S) go down the stairs and cross over the Railair pick up and then cross at the traffic lights. Turn left towards roundabout then right into Blagrave Street. Immediately cross over the road towards Aldwych House. Continue up Blagrave Street taking the first left into Valpy Street. The Innovation Centre at North Gate House is the last building on left hand side.

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Main exit (by station WHSmiths) – If you leave the station here (no stairs), you will exit onto Station Hill. Turn left and skirt the outside of the Station, you will pass the Railair pick up, then see instructions above.

Caversham Exit – Please do not take this exit.

Dinner and overnight accommodation venue: Royal County Hotel,

4-8 Duke Street, Reading, RG1 4RY, Tel: 0118 958 3455

Leave M4 at Junction 10, follow A329 to Reading leaving at last exit “A4 Reading Town Centre”. Stay in right hand lane, passing pub on right, Royal Berkshire Hospital on left. Turn right to town centre just after petrol station on your right. At traffic lights, turn right and stay in left lane. Bear left at next traffic lights, over bridge and filter left at traffic lights. Turn left at next lights [just past Blackwells] opposite Jacksons department store into Duke Street and the Royal County Hotel and Fusion Brasserie is on your right. Car park/set down point is down cobbled road just past hotel entrance.

Limited free on-site parking 5 minute walk to the Innovation Centre

Air: London Heathrow (28.5 miles) Gatwick Airport (57.5 miles)

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Biodiversity R&D Programme Review.

  • Innovation Centre, Reading
  • Monday 28th September 2009

AGENDA Day 1

  • Time Project Title
  • Contractor
  • Presenter
  • Duration of

Presentation (minutes)

10:00 10:30
Registration & coffee

  • Chairman's welcome and introductions
  • Peter Costigan,

Defra

10 10

  • 10:40
  • The Biodiversity research programme: policy

requirements in the context of other Defra programmes
Sarah Webster, Defra

Theme 1: Threats to biodiversity

  • 10:50
  • Overview & context – threats to biodiversity
  • Helen Pontier,

Defra
5

  • Block 1 0302
  • Climate change and migratory species.

Indicator species and protocols for data collection

  • BTO
  • Rob Robinson,

British Trust for Ornithology
10
0266 0308
Extensions to Accelerates: climate change, University of Oxford impacts and responses in the UK

  • TBC
  • 10

10 15
Modelling natural resource response to climate change (The Monarch 3 Project)

  • English Nature
  • James Paterson,

ECI, University of Oxford

0327 and Towards adaptation to climate change
(England Biodiversity Strategy)

  • CEH
  • Centre for Ecology and

Hydrology

  • 0326
  • Conservation of biodiversity in a changing

climate

  • 0389
  • Habitat connectivity – the ecological basis

for landscape permeability, facilitating adaptive response of species to climate

  • Forest Research
  • Kevin Watts

Forest Research
10

  • 11:50
  • 15

10
DISCUSSION

  • Block 2 0289
  • Nitrogen atmospheric
  • CEH
  • Simon Smart,

  • pollution impacts on biodiversity
  • Centre for Ecology and

Hydrology

0295

0430
Potential impacts of future energy policy on UK biodiversity

  • ADAS
  • Robert Edwards,

ADAS UK Ltd
10

  • 10
  • Wind turbines: determining the risk to bat

populations – phase 1

  • University of Bristol
  • Gareth Jones,

University of Bristol

  • 12:35
  • DISCUSSION
  • 10

  • 10
  • Block 3 0281
  • Provision of bag statistics for huntable

birds

  • CSL
  • Dave Parrott,

The Food and Environment Research Agency

  • 0357
  • Assessment of the level of compliance

with the Environmental Protection

  • ADAS
  • Sam Beechener

ADAS UK Ltd
10 restriction on the use of lead shot) (England) Regulations 1999 (as amended)

13:05

13:15
DISCUSSION LUNCH
10 45

Paper review: Threats to biodiversity

  • 0213
  • Integrated climate change
  • Cranfield University

iii

0223 0245

  • Climate change UK
  • ADAS

  • BTO
  • Investigation of the causes of the decline

of House Sparrow and Starling in Great Britain

  • 0293
  • Standard methodology to assess the risk

from non-native species considered possible problems to the environment
CSL
0371 0415

  • Do bats avoid radar?
  • University of Aberdeen

  • UNEP-WCMC
  • Ad hoc technical expert group workshop

on climate change and biodiversity

14:00

14:10

  • DISCUSSION OF PAPERS
  • 10

Theme 2: Economics and ecosystems

  • Overview and context – economics and ecosystems
  • Helen Pontier
  • 5

0394 and 0384

  • Mapping of business tools and
  • Scott Wilson Ltd
  • Liz Clarke

And Steve Smith, Scott Wilson Ltd
15 methodologies for managing biodiversity Benefits of global biodiversity assets to UK citizens: a literature review

0419

0391
The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (TEEB) phase 2 part 1. Development of valuation framework

  • UNEP-WCMC
  • TBC
  • 10

  • 10
  • An evaluation of economic and non-

economic techniques for assessing the importance of biodiversity to people in developing countries
Institute of Rural Sciences
Mike Christie, IBERS Aberystwyth University

  • 14:50
  • DISCUSSION
  • 15

Paper review: Economics and ecosystems

  • 0319
  • Human health and wellbeing through

countryside recreation
Forestry Commission
15:05 15:10
DISCUSSION OF PAPERS TEA
520

Theme 3: International biodiversity

  • 15:30
  • Overview and context: international

biodiversity
Mark Stevenson, Defra
5

  • Block 1 0406
  • A global assessment of 100 questions of

greatest importance to conservation policy makers and practitioners
Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Andy Swash, Defra
10

  • 0290
  • Chinese plants for the horticultural trade
  • KEW
  • Noel McGough,

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
15 10 10
0258 and Scientific advice on plant trade policy

  • 0256
  • CITES capacity building

  • 0340
  • CITES scientific authority support: trade

in raptors from Guinea
Fauna & Flora International
Vin Fleming, Joint Nature Conservation Committee

  • 0350
  • Wildbirds trade: impact on livelihoods

and illegal trade

  • UNEP-WCMC
  • UNEP

  • 16:20
  • DISCUSSION
  • 10

  • 10
  • Block 2 0345

0300
Imported bushmeat – species identification using DNA profiling DNA profiling of birds of prey – fluorescent multiplexing
Wildlife DNA Services Wildlife DNA Services
Helen Pontier, Defra

0202 and Feathers as a source of DNA 0207 DNA testing using tiger bone
University of Nottingham Forensic Science Service

  • 16:40
  • DISCUSSION
  • 5

Block 3 0407

0282
Review of zoos’ contribution and education contribution

  • ADAS
  • Sam Beechener,

ADAS UK Ltd
10
Secretary of State's zoo inspectors' performance
International Zoo Veterinary Group
Andrew Greenwood, International Zoo Veterinary Group
10

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  • 17:05
  • DISCUSSION
  • 5

Paper review: international

0209 0243 0249 0260 0312 0333

  • Wolf dogs
  • International Zoo

Veterinary Group

Bushmeat trade in Central and West Africa (bushmeat)
Natural Resources Institute

Plant substances as alternatives for animal products in traditional medicines
University of Middlesex
An investigation into the trade in tortoises in Great Britain
TRAFFIC
The husbandry of elephants in UK zoos
University of Bristol Overseas Development Institute

CITES licences – assessment of recent bushmeat research and recommendations to her majesty’s government

  • 0397
  • CITES licences – an assessment

of the impact
Eftec
17:10 17:20 19:30

  • DISCUSSION OF PAPERS
  • 10

Instructions for dinner, Day 2 Conference meal with guest speaker

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Biodiversity R&D Programme Review.

  • Innovation Centre, Reading
  • Tuesday 29th September 2009

AGENDA Day 2

  • Time Project Title
  • Contractor
  • Presenter
  • Duration of

Presentation (minutes)

08:45 09:00
Registration & coffee Chairman's introduction Overview and context – habitats and species
Peter Costigan Mark Stevenson

15

Theme 4: Habitats and species

  • Block 1 0150
  • Barn owls phase 2
  • BTO

CSL
Mark Rehfisch, British Trust for Ornithology
15 10
0373 and BTO birds projects

  • 0219
  • AEWA – introduced waterbirds

  • n/a
  • Further research on ruddy duck
  • Iain Henderson,

The Food and Environment Research Agency

  • 0287
  • Japanese Knotweed

DISCUSSION

  • CABI
  • Sean Murphy,

CABI
10

  • 10
  • 09:50

Block 2

Paper review: Species

0222 0237

  • Ruddy duck cull
  • CSL

  • LGC
  • A review of current wildlife species

genetic research: Identification of a priority list of wildlife species in trade, where DNA research would assist law enforcement

0253 0259

  • Musk deer
  • WWF

Analysis of non-native species legislation DISCUSSION OF PAPERS
Ecoscope

  • 10:00
  • 10

Paper review: Habitats (review is by papers only)

Block 3 0216
0220

  • Monitoring heathland fires in Dorset
  • Terra

Research into proposed criteria defining “important” hedgerows
ADAS
0230 0261

  • Biodiversity independent evaluation
  • Entec

Sites of local nature conservation importance
Just Ecology
0307 0398 0418
Environmental benefits of domestic gardens
University of Sheffield Scott Wilson JNCC
Review of evidence needs for Defra’s global biodiversity sub-programme

Developing a mechanism for filling knowledge gaps in UK biodiversity action plans

10:10

10:30
OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF PAPERS COFFEE
20 20

Theme 5: Countryside Survey

  • 10:50
  • Overview of Countryside Survey
  • Helen Pontier
  • 5

vi

  • 10:55
  • 195
  • CS2000 feasibility
  • University of

Nottingham Not recorded NERC NERC NERC
Simon Smart, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
15
203 210 211 212 263
ECN/CS2000 Countryside survey 2000 CS2000 part 2 – freshwater CS2000 part 3 – LCM2000 CS2000 module 9 local results and pilot indicators
CEH

  • 264
  • CS2000 FOCUS (from CS2000 follow up)

module 17
CEH
298 316
Scoping study for countryside survey 2006 ADAS Preparing for CS2006 (2007) phase 1
NERC
334 360
Countryside survey 2007 (prep phase 2) Countryside survey 2007
CEH CEH

11:10

11:20

  • DISCUSSION
  • 10

Theme 6: Indicators and monitoring

  • Overview of indicators and monitoring
  • Mark Stevenson,

Defra
5
0251 0236 0273 and
Native woodland survey Non-woodland tree survey Native woodland survey phase 2 (biodiversity British woodlands) Plant atlas
English Nature Forestry Commission CEH
Simon Smart, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
15

  • 0167
  • NERC

  • CEH
  • 0322

and 0386
Targeted monitoring of air pollution and climate change impacts on biodiversity Site based monitoring business
Nigel Critchley, ADAS UK Ltd
10 15
ADAS CEH development plan (targeted monitoring)
0402 and 0405
Extending the use of butterfly recording data in the UK UK biodiversity Indicators – invasive non-native species
David Roy, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

0388

0363
Habitat connectivity - development of an indicator for the EBS, UK and CBD reporting part 1
Forest Research BTO
Kevin Watts, Forest Research
10

  • 10
  • Climate change and migratory species -

indicator species and protocols for data collection
Stuart Newson, British Trust for Ornithology

  • 0374
  • UK spring indicator

DISCUSSION

  • Woodland Trust
  • Richard Smithers,

Woodland Trust
10

  • 15
  • 12:35

Paper review: Indicators and monitoring

0175 0186 0241 0250 0270 0276 0297

  • ECOFACT
  • NERC

  • Bat monitoring
  • Bat Conservation Trust

  • NBNT
  • National Biodiversity Network

  • MAGIC
  • FRCA

Global biodiversity information facility Biodiversity monitoring
JNCC Just Ecology

  • Entec
  • Local authority performance indicators

for biodiversity

0299

0404
Enhancement of agriculture and environment statistics
Eurostat
UK biodiversity indicators – development of an indicator of genetic diversity in selected farm breeds
SAC Commercial Ltd

  • 12:50
  • DISCUSSION OF PAPERS
  • 10

13:00 13:40

  • LUNCH
  • 40

  • 20
  • Lessons learned from the backward look

vii

10 5

DAY 2 Forward Look

  • Forward Look introduction
  • 14:00

14:05 15:50 16:00
Structured discussion Sum up
1hr45
10
CLOSE

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CONTENTS
Page No.

  • Venue
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Agenda Contents iii ix xiv xiv xiv xiv xvi xvi xx

Section 1 Policy requirements document

Section 1.1 Purpose of this paper Section 1.2 Objectives of the Review Section 1.3 Background Section 1.4 Non R&D budget Section 1.5 Policy History Section 1.6 Defra’s priorities and objectives Section 1.7 Biodiversity policy responsibilities and objectives
Section 1.7.1 Policy objective xxi xxi xxi xxi
Section 1.7.2 Policy responsibilities
Section 1.8 Science and policy objectives of the biodiversity research programme

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  • Section 1.8.1 Domestic ROAME

xxiv xxvi xxvi xxxv
Section 1.8.2 International Biodiversity ROAME
Section 1.9 Biodiversity Research Programme Section 1.10 Funding profile and financial review Section 1.11 Key questions

Annex A Summary of key policies, legislation commitments and other events that have influenced biodiversity up to 2008

xxxvi

Annex B Summary of expenditure on projects, according to themes, delivered by the Biodiversity Research Programme 1995 – 2008

xlviii lvii

Annex C Evidence delivered by the Biodiversity Research Programme towards policy needs identified in the Evidence and Innovation Strategy

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    THE SWORDSMAN Issue 38, May 2017 The Worshipful Company of Engineers (Incorporated by Royal Charter 2004) The Swordsman Issue 38, May 2017 CONTENTS Editorial City Events The Annual Banquet - 4 November Lord Mayor’s Show - 12 November Carol Service and dinner - 14 December Court and Partner’s dinner - 10 January Election Court service and dinner - 7 March Luncheons Partner’s luncheon aboard HMQS Wellington - 5 October Site visits HMS Warrior - 4 October Blue Bell Railway - 18 October Manufacturing Technology Centre, Ansty Park, Coventry - 23 November Crossrail visits to Paddington 24 &31 January Northern Line Tunnel boring machine - 6 February BRE Garston - 28 February Renishaw PLC, Gloucestershire, - 4 April Out of town events Docklands and Royal Greenwich Museums walk - 4 March Company news Stop press! Court proceedings Engineer’s Trust and IET Bursaries Honours Comings and goings Front cover photograph : the foam wall lining to BRE’s anechoic chamber The Swordsman Number 38 From the Editor The City, the livery movement and each of us are Terrorism has claimed victims in France, Germany, affected by the big events that shape our lives and Sweden and the UK. The Houses of Parliament were the future of our successors. It may be helpful to locked down when a lone terrorist killed and injured future generations to know the context in national pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and a policeman and global relations in which this edition is was killed while on duty within the boundaries of published. I confess to subjectivity to the extent that the Palace of Westminster. I choose the topics which seem to me to as the’ big events of the day’.
  • Review of the Provision of Forensic Science to the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales

    Review of the Provision of Forensic Science to the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales

    Forensics Review Review of the provision of forensic science to the criminal justice system in England and Wales April 2019 © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open- government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: [email protected]. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected]. Forensics Review 2019 Contents Executive summary 4 Background 6 A mixed and varied delivery model 8 Review 13 Findings 144 Digital forensics 25 Long-term planning 276 Research and development 287 Annexes 332 Annex A - Terms of Reference 332 Annex B - Stakeholders interviewed 38 Annex C - Glossary of terms and abbreviations 40 3 Forensics Review 2019 Executive summary Public confidence in the criminal justice system is vital. Maintaining the quality and sustainability of forensic science provision is important to the detection, investigation and prosecution of criminal offences and the fair administration of justice. The Minister for Policing & the Fire Service asked the chair of the NPCC, chair of the APCC and the Home Office to take forward a collaborative review of the provision of forensic services to address the concerns of policing, the regulator and criminal justice system (CJS) partners arising from recent events.

  • Forensic Science

    CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by LSE Research Online centre for analysis of risk and regulation An ESRC Research Centre A Curious Reconstruction? The Shaping of ‘Marketized’ Forensic Science Chris Lawless DISCUSSION PAPER NO: 63 DATE: May 2010 A Curious Reconstruction? The Shaping of ‘Marketized’ Forensic Science Chris Lawless Contents Abstract............................................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgements............................................................................................................. 1 Introduction......................................................................................................................... 2 Creating the Market: The Evolution of Police Scientific Support Arrangements in England and Wales ............................................................................................................. 3 Science-Led Integration: The Rise of Probabilistic Reasoning in Forensics...................... 6 I. Origins: Epistemic Risk and the Rise of a ‘New Paradigm’........................................ 6 II. Constructing Forensic ‘Providers’ and ‘Users’: The Case Assessment and Interpretation (CAI) Model ............................................................................................. 8 Police-Led Integration: Shaping the Structures of Scientific Support.............................. 12 I. Centralizing Science: The Home Office Science and Innovation Strategy ..............
  • Forensic Science and Beyond: Authenticity, Provenance and Assurance Evidence and Case Studies

    Forensic Science and Beyond: Authenticity, Provenance and Assurance Evidence and Case Studies

    FORENSIC SCIENCE AND BEYOND: AUTHENTICITY, PROVENANCE AND ASSURANCE EVIDENCE AND CASE STUDIES l l l l l l l Annual Report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2015 Forensic Science and Beyond: Authenticity, Provenance and Assurance Evidence and Case Studies This volume comprises chapters which form the evidence for the Government Chief Scientific Adviser’s Annual Report 2015, together with illustrative case studies. It should be cited as: Annual Report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2015: Forensic Science and Beyond: Authenticity, Provenance and Assurance. Evidence and Case Studies. The Government Office for Science would like to thank the authors who contributed evidence chapters, case studies and their time towards this report and gave it freely. This report is intended for: Policymakers, legislators, and a wide range of business people, professionals, researchers and other individuals whose interests include the use of forensic analysis within the Criminal Justice System through to authenticity, provenance and assurance in the provision of goods and services. The report project team was Martin Glasspool, Richard Meadows, Lindsay Taylor, Adam Trigg and Jenny Wooldridge. This report consists of contributions received from academia and industry and others outside of government. The views expressed do not represent policy of any government or organisation. This report is presented in two parts. The first is the summary report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser. This was developed as a result of seminars and the advice of the experts who provided the source of the evidence. The second part, the evidence, has been gathered from and written by a distinguished group of experts.