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Lords Chamber
Game Birds (Cage Breeding) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 25 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Randall of Uxbridge (CON - Life peer) My Lords, this Bill is not about the rights and wrongs of game shooting per se, its merits or demerits - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) He is known for his interest in fauna and flora and for pursuing conservation and animal welfare issues - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Badger Culling - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) There are even deeper concerns, particularly about the shooting of badgers. - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) broadly supported the decision to retain culling as an option.”The people who did not accept it were the conservation - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The view expressed is that the shooting of badgers is poorly monitored and inhumane. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) The Government and Members on the Government side clearly believe that shooting badgers is the preferred - Speech Link
5: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) doubts that, but we need to be transparent, and shooting activities - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Direct Payment to Farmers (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2022 - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) I add that on common land graziers and those with shooting rights are trying to compete side by side. - Speech Link
2: Duke of Montrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I am sure he believes that, but what proportion are the Government expecting to go to conservation projects - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) gas, and shortages of feed and fertiliser. - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) are purely conservation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) and include a report of its opinions and advice. - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) intended to narrow the scope and avoid having to address issues such as blood sports, hunting and shooting - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) the rest of the hunting and shooting lobby. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [ Lords ]
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Let us be frank: that was because they fear a cracking down on blood sports and hunting and shooting. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) (Rosie Duffield), and for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne), and my hon. - Speech Link
3: None When Natural England decides on contentious issues such as licensing the shooting of game birds, the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bird Control Licences - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) They represent a very small proportion of a sector that does enormous good for conservation and wider - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) There are various data sources about the value of shooting to the wider rural economy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) In the vast majority of areas, there is a net gain for biodiversity by the moderate actions of shooting - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the levelling-up agenda, placing at risk much of the £2 billion and 74,000 jobs that game shooting contributes - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) My noble friend is right that, whatever people feel about the rights and wrongs of shooting predator - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hare Coursing Bill - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) health and wellbeing. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) and Opposition Members. - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) its progress and our police and courts robustly enforcing these laws. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) The Angling Trust and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation—I declare an interest; it - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) The Government’s current and future work on animal welfare and conservation is set out clearly in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) I declare an interest here, as I am a member of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Rosser and Lord Paddick, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord - Speech Link
3: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (LAB - Life peer) The scale is huge and the complexity daunting, and he gave a brilliant and well-informed exposé of the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Newlove (CON - Life peer) Stalking is horrific and coercive, both mentally and physically.When we look at amending and putting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Report stage part three - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None 20, at end insert— “(4A) Recommendations under subsection (3) must not be detrimental to—(a) nature conservation - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the animal sentience committee is not detrimental to nature conservation, biosecurity, crop protection - Speech Link
3: None There has been a movement, which I have taken part in, to ban shooting game with lead shot, but I do - Speech Link
4: None The only way the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust farm in Scotland has been able to get any hatch - Speech Link