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

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) It involves a wide range of other criminal activities, including theft, trespass, criminal damage, violence - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) range of criminal activities, including theft, criminal damage—predominantly on our farms—violence and - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) to search for or to pursue a hare or encouraging the use of a dog or enabling another person to observe - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) Lady has referred to a number of specific cases. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) However, that is why we are more motivated to speed up the process and make a real difference. - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (CON - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. - Speech Link
4: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Friend, I have seen a rise in that kind of offence in my constituency. - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) indicated that while the Department is not introducing a specific family reunion route, there is some - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) This is a criminal offence, with penalties including up to two years in prison. - Speech Link
2: None This amendment therefore creates a specific criminal offence of desecration of a corpse to address intentional - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, Amendments 292K and 292L in my name seek to create a criminal offence of desecration of a corpse - 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) The theft of a pet is devastating. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) We should make a new offence of pet abduction and this is an appropriate place to do that. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) offence relating to the taking or detaining of a dog so as to apply in relation to other species.Brought - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) licence, and it would make it an offence to be in possession of hunting dogs without a licence. - Speech Link
5: None It would also require the website to make sellers who wish to sell a cat or dog aged one year or less - 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: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) a dog at large is on a lead. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) Q Would you have exemptions for a farmer’s dog or a sheep dog? - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) where a constable has reasonable grounds to believe that a criminal offence has taken place, and the - Speech Link
4: James Daly (CON - Bury North) for an act that has led to the owner being convicted of a criminal offence. - Speech Link
5: James Daly (CON - Bury North) of a criminal offence is given responsibility for rehoming a dog. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) For this to be a criminal offence against the Travelling community, it has to be “excessive”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) We will make intentional trespass a criminal offence.” That is very interesting wording. - Speech Link
3: None It is a strange form of careless driving which amounts to a criminal offence but enables you to pass - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) criminal offence to operate such a vehicle in London without a licence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part two - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The difficulty with Clause 62 as it stands is the fact that a person would commit a criminal offence - Speech Link
2: None I find particularly chilling the new role of a private individual in triggering a criminal offence. - Speech Link
3: None is already a criminal offence, but the proposals under the Bill create a new offence of residing on - Speech Link
4: None private citizen that a criminal offence has taken place. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We will make intentional trespass a criminal offence”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None It reported in May 2021 and recommended that there be a new offence of pet theft. - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) Your Lordships might ask why we should create such an offence when a simple pet theft offence might suffice - Speech Link
3: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) to make it clear that the offence relates to a photograph or video of a breast? - Speech Link
4: None Do we want to make it a criminal act? That is not a point of drafting—that is a point of principle. - Speech Link
5: None by the police as a criminal offence. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) It is difficult to judge how heavily pregnant a dog is. - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) dog, but I have not yet met a farmer who wants to do that. - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) powers to seize a dog and no powers to take DNA samples. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Bill retains the existing exemption to the offence of being in charge of a dog “at large” with livestock - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Oct 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) The pet theft taskforce has recently made a series of recommendations, which we are considering, and - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) We are working tirelessly to make the route unviable through a comprehensive package of measures—there - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) As I have said previously, as a country and as a Government, we are absolutely determined to make sure - Speech Link
4: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. - Speech Link