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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: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) breed-specific legislation regime—and advising on and drafting proposals for a more effective sentencing - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) safe from this particular type of dog. - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) they have a certificate of exemption.We recognise the strength of feeling on breed-specific legislation - 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 Benyon (CON - Life peer) The scientific advice from independent scientific experts and our expert Advisory Committee on Releases - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I note that certain briefings mischievously describe gene editing as a form of “deregulated” or “exempt - 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) The owner was a local authority tenant who discovered, after her therapy dog was assessed as an exempt - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) The Middlesex University report does not go so far as to say that we should move away from breed-specific - 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: Cherilyn Mackrory (CON - Truro and Falmouth) Those who know dogs know that huskies are a very difficult breed to keep because they can run all day - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) There are a lot of methods of safe contraception available that experts in primate medicine would be - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) As I said in my previous answer, if there is one part of the UK that is exempt, it will open up loopholes - Speech Link
5: James Daly (CON - Bury North) I think you would probably accept, Dr Wright, that we cannot ever produce legislation that will be specific - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) That applies in pretty much every other kind of activity, and we cannot regard any scheme as exempt. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Williams (LDEM - Bristol West) by 23% and, as we heard from the hon. - Speech Link
3: John Healey (LAB - Wentworth and Dearne) As such, they threaten one of the central tenets of pension saving: that what one has accrued is safe - 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: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) Of course, any benefits from the current schemes can be assessed in full and reduced at the current pension - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Pat Glass (LAB - North West Durham) I fear that that will lead to selective admissions through the back door in the new breed of academies - 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: 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
4: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) but, “Who will lose out as a result of this legislation?” - 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) It repeals all current legislation relating to dangerous dogs—thereby removing breed-specific legislation—introduces - 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