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Westminster Hall
Legislation on Dangerous Dogs - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) Urgent action is clearly needed, but breed-specific legislation is not the answer. - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) from my constituent.Of course, dangerous dogs legislation has a bit of a history. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) from the dangerous dogs legislation in the circumstances that I have described. - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Therefore, there are no plans to repeal the breed-specific provisions in the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) Many experts estimate that we will need to increase global food production by at least 50% by 2050.This - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) well as the precise manipulation of the genome by such means as gene editing. - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (CON - Excepted Hereditary) As much as 25% of the required global reduction in atmospheric carbon can come from re-evaluating land - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) We want to be able to correct circumstances such as those as quickly as possible, and this legislation - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Breed-specific Legislation - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) Breed-specific legislation means that dogs identified as a banned breed cannot be rehomed and strays - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) a result of breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) When 92% of all attacks are by dogs not covered by the legislation, it is clearly ineffective, as his - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act, also known as breed-specific legislation, makes it an offence to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 09 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Under current EU law, as long as the transport is finished by the time they are 72 hours old, they can - Speech Link
2: Cherilyn Mackrory (CON - Truro and Falmouth) This morning, the Dogs Trust said the majority of livestock worrying is from dogs that have escaped from - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) in the same way as dogs, and the same rules applying to cats as to dogs. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) If they are flown in through an airport—as I say, we get cropped dogs coming in from the US—they will - Speech Link
5: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) We need to ensure that cats that have been mutilated are covered by the legislation as well.Rob Quest - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Service Pensions Bill - Mon 29 Oct 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Stephen Williams (LDEM - Bristol West) by 23% and, as we heard from the hon. - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) as those enjoyed by anyone.The need for change is simple. - Speech Link
3: David Anderson (LAB - Blaydon) As was pointed out earlier by my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) In my view, we should have a sensible negotiation on sector-specific schemes, as alluded to by the hon - Speech Link
5: Chris Leslie (TIG - Nottingham East) As we have heard from some of my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Academies Bill [Lords] - Mon 19 Jul 2010
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tom Blenkinsop (LAB - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) As a result of the Bill, school support staff as well as teachers would be directly employed by the new - Speech Link
2: Stephen Twigg (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) I have not heard a convincing argument from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats as to why this legislation - Speech Link
3: Dan Rogerson (LDEM - North Cornwall) Tellingly, as has been said by some hon. - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) As independent schools, they are exempt from the curriculum and, to date, have not had to reveal the - Speech Link
5: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Friend by saying that the fast-track process is to enable schools to be ready to open as academies from - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Dog Control Bill [HL] - Fri 09 Jul 2010
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LDEM - Life peer) holes in the legislation and that any changes made by the Bill would not be used as loopholes by anyone - Speech Link
2: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) should also embody the principle of ‘deed not breed’ and oppose breed specific legislation on the grounds - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) the number of dogs added to the exempt list has risen over the two years from 2007 to 2009 from 185 - Speech Link
4: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We believe that it is not necessary to remove breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link