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Lords Chamber
Foetal Sentience Committee Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) The then Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill 2022, which came through your Lordships’ House, established - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, I wrote that it left a gaping hole because of the lack of any comparable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) welfare, as we have heard, where there is a committee on animal sentience—see the Animal Welfare (Sentience - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Welfare (Sentience) Act, which legislates for the creation of animal sentience committees. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) It is an abhorrent act to go to another country and kill an endangered animal in order to stick its head - Speech Link
2: Rosie Duffield (Lab - Canterbury) My good friend the vet and animal welfare campaigner Dr Marc Abraham OBE agrees. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) That principle is reflected domestically in our Animal Welfare Act 2006, and aligns with our understanding - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Labour’s Animal Welfare Act 2006 saw, for the first time, animal owners responsible for ensuring that - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Welfare Act 2006, which was led by my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) Indeed, I made my maiden speech during the passage of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 on this - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to crop a dog’s ears, and since 2021 anyone convicted - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) , and some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) We had an excellent briefing from nine animal welfare bodies, including the Conservative Animal Welfare - Speech Link
3: None I welcome these changes to the Animal Welfare Act 2006, but they do not go far enough. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) in limbo because the site is awaiting a decision by the Cabinet Office under the National Security Act - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) He will know that in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 we introduced powers to create a new - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The general public saw the sense of it, and supported that decision.Since the establishment in 2006 of - Speech Link
4: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) Can we have a statement from the Home Secretary on the establishment of an animal offenders register? - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend for his question and for all his work on animal welfare, for which he is very well known. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) welfare standards even further.On farm animal welfare in particular, the Government have launched the - Speech Link
2: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) Welfare (Sentencing) Act 2021.The legislation before us has been heralded by the Government as bringing - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) Numbers fell from around 1,000 in 1985 to 285 by 2006, with around 10 large companies slaughtering the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) As the Minister will know, the recent Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 now recognises both cephalopods - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) research and animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) From the Hunting Act 2004, which banned the cruel practice of hunting with dogs, to the Animal Welfare - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (Con - Life peer) They clarify that Section 7A of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the sovereign Act of Parliament - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) The DUP recognised at St Andrews in 2006—I remember it well—that the future of Northern Ireland is necessarily - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) health standards will apply to goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain, EU requirements for animal - Speech Link
4: None We will debate the animal welfare legislation next week. - Speech Link
5: None When I spoke about the Act of Union previously, the Minister pointed out to me that the Act of Union - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) the draft Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023.It is a pleasure to serve under - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) The Minister did not mention this, but it has been lifted largely from the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Pet Abduction Bill
Committee stage - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) That aligns to the maximum term for animal welfare offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) She is a true champion of animal welfare. - Speech Link