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Commons Chamber
Foie Gras Imports - Wed 13 Jun 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) The same goes for a lot of fur production as well. - Speech Link
2: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) of animal lovers.I am grateful to the many organisations and institutions that have banned the sale of - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) injury.”If any production were to occur in the UK, the Animal and Plant Health Agency would be asked - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ivory Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) of animal welfare, from banning foxhunting and fur farms in the UK to introducing our landmark Animal - Speech Link
2: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) We cannot allow that to happen, so this ban on the sale of ivory in this country is a good step in the - Speech Link
3: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) More than 80% of responses were in favour of measures to ban ivory sales in the UK; that has no doubt - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fur Trade - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The e-petition, headed “Ban the sale of animal fur in the UK”, explains:“Fur farming was banned in England - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) import and sale of fur in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) in the world to ban the sale of fur in 2013. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The door is open for a ban on the sale of animal fur in the UK. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare - Tue 12 Dec 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) up fresh standards for animal welfare in UK zoos and then enforcing them.I want to join in the applause - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) and are now consulting on our proposed ban of the sale of ivory in the UK that contributes directly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Plans to Improve the Natural Environment and Animal Welfare - Thu 07 Dec 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) What was the effect of the unilateral ban? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) We in the UK like to think of ourselves as a nation of animal lovers. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) sales of puppies, enforce the ban on ivory trading, cease the current badger cull and ban the use of - Speech Link
4: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) 2018 and a ban on sale from June 2018. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Snares - Thu 21 Jul 2016
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) Every 20 seconds an animal is caught in a snare somewhere in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) The UK is one of only five countries in Europe in which snares are completely legal. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Labour would bring in a ban: will the Government ban the manufacturing, sale, possession and use of snares - Speech Link
4: Jim Dowd (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) ; and calls on the Government to implement a full ban on the manufacture, sale, possession and use of - Speech Link
5: Jim Dowd (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) ; and calls on the Government to implement a full ban on the manufacture, sale, possession and use of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Dog Meat Trade - Thu 05 Nov 2015
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) In most east Asian countries the sale and consumption of dog meat is legal and there is no comprehensive - Speech Link
2: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) I also think the UK public as a whole are very much animal lovers and take animal welfare extremely seriously - Speech Link
3: James Duddridge (CON - Rochford and Southend East) standards globally, not just in the UK. - Speech Link
4: James Duddridge (CON - Rochford and Southend East) The Philippines passed legislation in 1998 banning the sale and consumption of dog meat. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Dog Control and Welfare - Thu 13 Jun 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) provisions under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 that currently ban certain types of dog, regardless of - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) However, we need to look at the ban on certain types of dog in the 1991 Act. - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) emotional price in dealing with such problems.The UK claims to be a nation of animal lovers and, on - Speech Link
4: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) is dividing the dog world and making dogs’ fur fly? - Speech Link
5: David Heath (LDEM - Somerton and Frome) It would be about the circumstances of the breeding programme and the puppies being put on sale. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ethical and Sustainable Fashion - Tue 19 Mar 2013
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Hornsey (CB - Life peer) and other strategies to take us forward.Here in the UK, the work of Defra and WRAP in promoting the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) Fashion Week and the RSPCA’s Good Business Awards, which have supported the development of animal-friendly - Speech Link
3: Baroness Prosser (LAB - Life peer) , transportation and sale of textiles and clothing. - Speech Link
4: Lord De Mauley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) About 90% of the clothing consumed in the UK is imported. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Wild Animals (Circuses) - Wed 08 Jun 2011
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) the import of cat and dog fur, and the same was said of seal fur, yet when Governments challenged that - Speech Link
2: Duncan Hames (LDEM - Chippenham) prevents the UK from legislating as it sees fit on the matter of animal welfare; I recognise that it - Speech Link
3: Simon Hart (CON - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) which I have been unashamedly responsible for—as the process is challenged in every court in the UK - Speech Link
4: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) We have already seen the humiliating debacle over the sale of our forests, delays to the water White - Speech Link