May. 17 2024
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AIFound: For instance, if an AI trained mostly on pictures of white cats labels a black cat as a 'dog', it is
May. 17 2024
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AIFound: For instance, if an AI trained mostly on pictures of white cats labels a black cat as a 'dog', it is
Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) more endangered species, passed the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, introduced microchipping for cats - Speech Link
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of electronic shock collars on (a) cats and (b) dogs.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government remains committed to banning electronic training collars controlled by hand-held devices that administer electric shocks to cats or dogs.
We will pursue new regulations to deliver this commitment on a revised timeline. Parliamentary business will be announced in the usual way.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Association, Shelter, Crisis, Citizens Advice, London Councils, Universities UK, Battersea Dogs & Cats - Speech Link
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of legal changes requiring the microchipping of cats by 10 June 2024.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
We have worked closely with animal welfare and veterinary stakeholders to develop and implement a co-ordinated communication strategy to raise awareness that owned cats over the age of 20 weeks will be required to be microchipped by 10 June this year. The strategy has included press releases and a visible social media campaign.
May. 10 2024
Source Page: Treasured pets to be safer as microchipping deadline approachesFound: With the number of pet cats in England now more than 9 million, the introduction of mandatory microchipping
Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) This recognises the fact that, unlike dogs, cats roam without their owners. - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Do not tell me that that is interfering with the natural behaviour of cats. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) They include Battersea Cats & Dogs Home, Cats Protection, Blue Cross, the RSPCA and others—and the - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) and dogs, in that the cat abduction offence is limited to the taking, only, of cats. - Speech Link
May. 09 2024
Source Page: Animal Sentience Committee’s report on the Renters (Reform) Bill: government responseFound: with a wider range of animal welfare organisations to ensure the needs of all pets (not only dogs and cats
May. 09 2024
Source Page: Animal Sentience Committee’s report on the Renters (Reform) Bill: government responseFound: with a wider range of animal welfare organisations to ensure the needs of all pets (not only dogs and cats