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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) long-standing history of championing animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) Friend has long been a doughty champion for animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Trade deals must never undercut UK animal welfare. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) future animal welfare reforms.The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act 2024 delivered on the previous - Speech Link
5: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) I am reminded today that the animal welfare strategy is not an end game, but animal welfare is a moving - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Pony and Trap Racing: Regulation - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) This can cause a huge amount of animal welfare issues. The injuries are horrific. Does my hon. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) Friend for raising the animal welfare point. - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) I also note the animal welfare concerns highlighted by the hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) The Budget set a 2% productivity target for all departments; it took steps to ensure welfare spending - Speech Link
2: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) There is the continuing concern about the impact on health, as evidenced by the continuing high welfare - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) He has rightly resisted the temptation to erode further horse racing’s competitiveness, vis-à-vis France - Speech Link
4: Lord Razzall (LD - Life peer) We must deepen our trade discussions, giving access for food and animal products. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Horseracing - Thu 24 Oct 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) It increases animal welfare and raises the profile of the sport. - Speech Link
2: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Friend the Member for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke), is animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) country.The BHA’s expenditure supports horse welfare; one of its goals is to drive high-quality care - 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) welfare organisations, the RSPCA aims to make animal welfare education accessible for every child aged - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) Under the Animal Welfare Act licensing conditions, it is illegal to breed an animal if its breed conformation - Speech Link
3: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) It is the first and oldest animal welfare charity to be founded, and as a nation of animal lovers we - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) There are clearly issues around greyhound racing and welfare. - Speech Link
5: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) He mentioned market forces and trends in animal welfare. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration and Home Affairs - Tue 23 Jul 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) support them, fails to set out a concrete plan to tackle the unsustainable post-covid rise in the welfare - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) health and welfare in the King’s Speech. - Speech Link
3: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) We have so many festivals, including literature, horse racing, poetry, music, jazz, food, cricket and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economy, Welfare and Public Services - Mon 22 Jul 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Hunt (Con - Godalming and Ash) that it was in 2010; further regret that there is no mention of how to make necessary savings on welfare - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - Godalming and Ash) with public sector pay restraint, productivity plans such as those we announced in the Budget, and welfare - Speech Link
3: Suella Braverman (Con - Fareham and Waterlooville) bill, but it is clear to me that through those welfare reforms, spearheaded by my right hon. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Those deals undermine our nation’s health and our environmental and animal welfare standards, and they - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Wed 17 Jul 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) tomorrow—foreign affairs and defence; Friday—planning, green belt and rural affairs; Monday—economy, welfare - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) Given the comments and publicity, I am sad that the speech makes no mention of animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) I must admit I was disappointed not to read of any animal welfare legislation, such as the banning of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) had to use a Victorian law made in about 1850, about wanton and furious driving, which referred to horse - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) them an account manager to help them to spend more money, showing a total disregard for the women’s welfare - Speech Link
3: None 66 to 70 (exposure etc, offences relating to intimate images etc, voyeurism, intercourse with an animal - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None To ensure that our own excellent farmers, who have high animal welfare standards, are not undercut by - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Furthermore, all imports of live animals must be transported in accordance with our animal welfare in - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) We are discussing animal welfare today but I am very conscious of the impact on the farming community - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) The BVA is asking that there be a well-defined set of animal health and welfare standards which must - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In my view, animal welfare should not be devolved; animal welfare is animal welfare wherever it is and - Speech Link