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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) This country has the Bullring in Birmingham, but we no longer torment bulls with dogs in a public arena - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) At least 20 species that the UK imports may be or are benefiting from trophy hunting. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) only to imports into Great Britain. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) Ultimately, the aim of the Bill is to ensure that imports of hunting trophies to Great Britain do not - 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) During covid, legal commercial imports of dogs rose by nearly 60% to more than 70,000 dogs in 2021, and - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) This measure is needed to prevent that anticipated increase in imports of low-welfare dogs and cats from - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Similarly, the banning of imports of dogs and cats with mutilations will protect puppies and kittens - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) We were promised action on imports of fur and foie gras. - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) It will also provide further powers to tackle the problem of low-welfare imports of dogs, cats and ferrets - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) home in search of a hopeful future but endured the horrific racism of the “No blacks, no Irish, no dogs - Speech Link
2: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) quarters to 2023, Ireland was the UK’s third largest export partner and the 10th largest source of imports - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey) has the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Their high animal welfare standards go unrewarded, and they are penalised by being undercut by imports - Speech Link
3: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) It sets out the situation regarding food production and consumption, as well as exports and imports, - Speech Link
4: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) These standards could safeguard high-quality, climate-friendly markets that are open to imports from - Speech Link
5: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) Embracing these food technologies can help boost domestic production and reduce reliance on imports. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gaza: Humanitarian Situation - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hussein-Ece (LD - Life peer) Shocking photos of starving dogs and cats scavenging dead bodies have gone around the world. - Speech Link
2: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) atrocities on 7 October.When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, it had a successful economy, control over imports - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Whether he is taking steps to improve animal welfare standards applicable to food imports and exports - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Since leaving the EU, we have put in place strong controls on imports, and we are using Brexit freedoms - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) He is mixing that up with the issue of food standards for imports from Europe. - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Following the ban on XL bully dogs, owners will have applied for a certificate of exemption, so that - Speech Link
5: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) neutering is a necessary population control, and we have already responded to the greater risks to dogs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) Thailand.A good example of the effect of host movement and infection spread to the UK is with respect to dogs - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) This applies only to legal imports, and illegal imports are likely to pose much greater risks to biosecurity - Speech Link
3: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Surveillance and detection are key to minimising risks from imports. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill   - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) However, I am conscious that the Government faltered on ending imports of hunting trophies and shied - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) We have made microchipping compulsory for cats and dogs. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Lancashire (Ashley Dalton) about their future plans on puppy smuggling, ear cropping and hunting trophy imports - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Newport West to Newcastle-under-Lyme, from High Peak to the highlands, are not undercut by low welfare imports - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We have criminal puppy-smuggling gangs bringing dogs across from the Republic of Ireland into Northern - Speech Link
3: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) I have had the opportunity to engage directly with various animal welfare organisations such as the Dogs - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) production are only half the picture unless we demand those same animal welfare standards are applied to imports - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Legislation on Dangerous Dogs - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) the breed to the list of dogs banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. - Speech Link
2: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) We have banned other dogs in the past, and these dogs are obviously dangerous, so who would not want - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) attacking their dogs. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) UK Government to return the kept animals Bill to Parliament, to restrict unethical puppy farming and imports - Speech Link