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Commons Chamber
Agricultural Sector: Import Standards - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) I particularly welcome the planned ban on farrowing crates for sows and cages for hens—crucial steps - Speech Link
2: Adam Jogee (Lab - Newcastle-under-Lyme) I am co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the Commonwealth. - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) out all cages for laying hens by 2032. - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Friend the Member for North West Cambridgeshire (Sam Carling) for securing the debate, and I thank all - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare Strategy for England - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) I support Compassion in World Farming’s “End the Cage Age” campaign. - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) The most common issues include calls to end animal testing, phase out cages for farm animals, strengthen - Speech Link
3: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab - Aylesbury) The first is the use of cages for hens. - Speech Link
4: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) are welcome things in the strategy for animals in the wild, such as the imminent complete ban on the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) What her planned timeline is for moving away from the use of farrowing crates and cages in farming. - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) The use of cages and other close confinement systems for farmed animals is an issue we are currently - Speech Link
3: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) farrowing crates and the equally cruel cages for birds, and what practical steps will be put in place - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) these kinds of cage systems at all, which I think shows the way forward. - Speech Link
5: Mary Creagh (Lab - Coventry East) Some 84% of the 44,000 respondents to the 2020 consultation supported a ban on all hunting trophies entering - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farmed Animals: Cages and Crates - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) The petition is titled:“End the use of cages and crates for all farmed animals”,and it was created by - Speech Link
2: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) More people have signed the petition to end the use of cages and crates for farmed animals in South Devon - Speech Link
3: Terry Jermy (Lab - South West Norfolk) last year.Every year in the UK, over 7 million farmed animals are confined to cages for all or part - Speech Link
4: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) to the use of cages and crates for farmed animals. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Government Support for the RSPCA - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) Fund for Animal Welfare to end those practices.In 1911, inspired by the RSPCA, the Protection of Animals - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) The RSPCA is calling for an end to cages for laying hens and farrowing crates for sows in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) does for animals throughout the country. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) transition from colony cages to higher-welfare non-cage systems.As with cages for laying hens, the issue - Speech Link


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) hunting, for whom I have a lot of respect; Eduardo Goncalves, the secretariat for the all-party group - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) The Bill will ban the import of hunting trophies for specific species. - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) for the ban on hunting, they fail to recognise the importance of the industry for the human livelihoods - 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: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) European Commission plans to ban cages for all farmed animals, hopefully by 2027. - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) end of the cage age. - Speech Link
4: 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
5: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) We have seen the end of barren battery cages, veal cages for calves and sow stalls for pigs, but we still - 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) the Government introduce further regulation for all websites where animals are sold, including by private - Speech Link
3: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) more importantly for the dogs and the animals themselves? - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I congratulate the hon. Member for Neath (Christina Rees) on setting the scene so well for us all. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) If we simply switch the animals in the cages from dogs to foxes and move the location to Finland, Poland - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) to be humane, include the use of leghold traps and keeping animals for their entire lives in cages that - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) on puppy smuggling, a ban on the live export of animals for fattening and slaughter, a ban on keeping - 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 Deech (CB - Life peer) of farmed animals, including farmed animals on agricultural land, at market, in transit and at the place - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) It does nothing at all good for animals, but it does a great disservice to the moral foundation of our - Speech Link
3: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) for all animals, whether they are pets, on a farm or in the wild.The Bill will apply to vertebrates other - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) So should we ban the killing of animals for meat? - Speech Link