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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Fri 25 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) It certainly is not fun for the innocent animals, who may suffer for hours on end because the hunter - Speech Link
2: Simon Fell (CON - Barrow and Furness) As they reach two years of age, many lions are used for canned hunting; they are released into a small - Speech Link
3: Dean Russell (CON - Watford) It is for us all to live on it, and that includes our animals too. - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) We have taken a different look at domestic and farmed animals, and we should feel proud of that. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farmed Animals: Cages - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) cage farming meant the end of the cage age, and that our chickens now enjoy the freedom they are naturally - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) end of the cage age. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to end the cage age once and for all.If we look to our European neighbours, we see that banning the - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) animals farmed for food. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Online Animal Sales: Regulation - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) Websites should be required to verify the identity of all sellers, and for young animals for sale pictures - Speech Link
2: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) It is important that all adverts display the age of the animal advertised. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) My preference would be to end all online sales, but I understand that that is how the world now operates - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) It required all websites that sell animals to verify the identity of all sellers. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting) - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) All other standards for the management of zoos and the animals within them are set via the standards - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) “In Schedule 8 of the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 omit sub-paragraph 6(2).” - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Schedule 8 of the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 allows female pigs to be kept - Speech Link
4: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) It would require all websites that sell animals to verify the identity of all sellers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Real Fur Sales - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) We agree, first of all, that in this day and age there is no justification whatsoever for using real - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) battery cage systems to specifically supply the fashion industry. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) for their fur, as long as these animals are not farmed here, we are content for their fur to be imported - Speech Link
4: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) and for all in Britain. - Speech Link
5: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) ) Bill, an end to lab testing with animals, stiffer penalties for cruelty to animals, a ban on the use - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) on not only farmed animals but companion animals and kept wild animals. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) of farmed animals, including farmed animals on agricultural land, at market, in transit and at the place - Speech Link
3: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) in the hierarchy of the animal kingdom does sentience end? - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) The Peta—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals—website says “End Speciesism” and has a picture - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) For instance, the duty to a farmed deer would be different from the duty to a wild deer. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) We are all here because we want to give a voice to the voiceless and to speak up for the animals that - Speech Link
2: None In a digital age, we see more and more cases of people filming abuse of animals, partly for their own - Speech Link
3: None Whether it is for Baby or for the countless other animals that we all know examples of, there is an urgent - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) Friend the Member for West Dorset, whose family has farmed in west Dorset for four generations. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 17 Sep 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None statement This new Clause prohibits the export from Great Britain of farmed animals for slaughter without - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) export from Great Britain of farmed animals for slaughter without stunning. - Speech Link
3: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the issue of farmed animals exported for slaughter and fattening. - Speech Link
4: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) us to treat animals of all kinds properly, whether farmed animals, domestic pets or whatever other category - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Equally, animal-to-human transmission of diseases is far more likely to occur when animals are farmed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) We currently have 65 billion farmed animals on this planet, and 80% of livestock is kept at the moment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) , are key to ensuring the good welfare of all farmed animals. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Caging of Farm Animals - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) The petitioners“call on the UK government to end this inhumane practice by banning all cages for farmed - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) SNP Members of the European Parliament backed theEnd the cage age” campaign. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) we should end the cage age one day, but not yet. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) TheEnd the cage age” petition calls for a ban on the use of barren and enriched cages for farmed animals - Speech Link