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Commons Chamber
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Their advice and assistance with drafting the Bill have been invaluable—indeed, they redrafted our original - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) There are obviously travel costs involved, but coming to see such a great facility is invaluable for - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) As we have heard today, London zoo’s animals have inspired a lifelong love of animals in its visitors - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) will continue to make sure that the inspection regime is as strict as possible, to make sure that when animals - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) All our overseas expenditure, whether it is through official development assistance or through contractual - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) parents successfully applied for visas to visit him in the autumn last year, but they were unable to travel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Fox (Con - North Somerset) and divide socialist countries”.Thus the WTO itself was heading for a stalemate in its direction of travel - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the National Farmers Union, in particular - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Movement, Transform Trade, the National Farmers Union, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Speech Link
4: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) May I take this opportunity to thank the Clerks for all the assistance that they have given throughout - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) One is for the travel of owners with pets and the other is for the commercial import of pet animals. - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) declawed.”Clause 1(2)(b) delivers relevant exemptions to the prohibitions, for example, for recognised assistance - Speech Link
3: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) I am concerned that there is widespread abuse of the pet travel scheme to smuggle animals illegally, - Speech Link
4: Heather Wheeler (Con - South Derbyshire) Most crucially, it will reduce the number of animals that can travel under the non-commercial rules from - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) That will lead to a significant decrease in the volume of animals with which one person can travel, and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) For the record, the Foreign Office travel advice for Rwanda was:“LGBT individuals can experience discrimination - Speech Link
2: None includes but is not limited to persons eligible for entry to the UK under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance - Speech Link
3: None legislation, when the Government argued that they made a policy choice on allowing the export of live animals - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) have to travel considerably further, so there is an animal welfare problem, and there is a human health - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) That is not a failure in where we are; the direction of travel is still there. - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) They are implementing policy that does not ring true with the Government’s direction of travel. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There will be massive reductions if it is not addressed, so we seek the assistance of Ministers both - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) now have to travel for slaughter within the United Kingdom can be substantial. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) This has caused longer travel times for the animals regionally. - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) has always been a very limited and heavily regulated trade, as the maximum hours that animals can travel - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) For example, pigs can become very travel sick, even on very short journeys. - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Many asked what further financial assistance there is for small abattoirs and what work we are doing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We have trebled our assistance, and we are pressing to get it into Gaza by all available routes—land, - Speech Link
2: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) Access to medical assistance for the sick and wounded, whether they have been engaged in active combat - Speech Link
3: Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab - Tooting) water to drink or food to eat, and people eating weeds growing on the roadside, or eating food made for animals - Speech Link
4: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) end to the suffering is by voting for an immediate ceasefire.We saw injured Palestinians forced to travel - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) encouraging emigration from Gaza is a necessity, the Defence Minister said that they are fighting “human animals - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) important that loss and damage does not draw from the same donors and the same official development assistance - Speech Link
2: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) Government have committed for saving nature will be used on some of the very vulnerable habitat sites and animals - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Since February 2020 the UK has committed £357 million of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) their applications for their family members to come to safety here, and hampered by the inability to travel - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) regarding” Israel’s“commitment to comply with the obligation not to arbitrarily deny access to humanitarian assistance - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) A convoy of thousands of women and children, injured elderly people and animals fleeing the city was - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) anniversary and the five pledges that I talked about, we announced 46 sanctions, including asset freezes and travel - Speech Link