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Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Communities Act 2006 will continued to apply to protect the environment from the introduction of non-native - Speech Link
2: None Animal Welfare Foundation, the Humane League, Animal Aid, Animal Defenders International and OneKind - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) I agree with him that we need to strengthen animal welfare laws. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) , the Bill introduces additional animal welfare standards, over and above existing animal welfare legislation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Report stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) of State to report on the impact of the procurement Chapters on environmental, food and animal welfare - Speech Link
2: None Government have consistently and successfully implemented international obligations on procurement since 2006 - Speech Link
3: Sarah Green (LDEM - Chesham and Amersham) This country’s high environmental and animal welfare standards, which we are rightly proud of, mean that - Speech Link
4: None They are key to delivering food security and to maintaining environmental and animal welfare protections - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) Members have mentioned, we are proud of our high animal welfare and food safety standards, which is why - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) The Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes it a crime to cause any unnecessary suffering to kept animals. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) There is a good precedent in proceedings on the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, in that although - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 became law in the last parliamentary Session, and the Government - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) Welfare Act 2006, which the hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) 1998 and amended by the Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Act 2022. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) , interparty talks nevertheless took place because of the actions of a Labour Secretary of State.In 2006 - Speech Link
3: Lord Bew (CB - Life peer) As we have agreed institutions for food safety and animal health, which are clearly issues at stake in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) that the Northern Ireland Assembly cannot legislate on so many contentious issues—social security, welfare - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 29 Nov 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) The clause relates to legislative reform orders under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) In the areas of the environment, health, food standards and animal welfare, the democratically elected - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) welfare or anything else. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for British Farming - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) so I speak with a lot of passion and experience in this field.When I was selected as a candidate in 2006 - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) It is also needed in the slaughter process for poultry and pigs, so there is an animal health and welfare - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) That would mean that, in areas such as environmental health, food standards and animal welfare, the people - Speech Link
2: None welfare, and, if so, whether and how that protection is to be continued when the instrument is revoked - Speech Link
3: None welfare, and, if so, whether and how that protection is to be continued when the instrument is revoked - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) application of the Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No.2) Order 2006 - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) The supposed Government priorities of environmental action and animal welfare are long past their due - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Many of the animal welfare measures in the last Queen’s Speech were lifted directly from Labour’s animal - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Those issues are not contentious, because there is a commitment to animal welfare across the House. - 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 Trees (CB - Life peer) They are protected by the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, world-class legislation which protects - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Welfare (Sentience) Act. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) It is under a 2006 Act, but I think it has been used fewer than 50 times, precisely because it takes - Speech Link
2: None I am from Wildlife and Countryside Link, which is a coalition of 67 environmental and animal welfare - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Q Do you want to come in on the animal welfare aspect, David? - Speech Link
4: None to improve animal welfare. - Speech Link