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Westminster Hall
Bee-killing Pesticides - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Imports were needed to enable British Sugar to honour its contracts.The emergency authorisation has been - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) other issues affecting pollinator health, such as the neonicotinoids in flea treatments for cats and dogs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) for laying hens, made CCTV mandatory in slaughterhouses in England, made microchipping mandatory for dogs - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) regulated for chickens, battery cages, mandatory CCTV in slaughter-houses, mandatory microchipping in dogs—a - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) Those include working with industry and looking to ease restrictions on feed imports, and providing regulatory - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) I recently visited the Dogs Trust rehoming centre in the Broomhouse area of my constituency, where staff - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) I also pay tribute to Dogs Trust, which is dealing with its own challenges when pets are presented at - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) already produces a significant amount of foods that are not produced in this country, so we welcome any imports - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Road Traffic Collisions Involving Cats - Mon 09 Jan 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) Although dogs are the most common pet in the UK, cats are not far behind: one in four households are - Speech Link
2: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) People love their dogs and cats. - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) It seems ridiculous that pigs, dogs, cattle and horses are protected, but cats are not. - Speech Link
4: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) Where is the ban on fur imports? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) It could be used to enable more intensive livestock breeding or to create fashionable designer dogs with - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) I agree with her that many people would be horrified at the thought that we might breed dogs with further - Speech Link
3: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) Let us think about cropped ears or short muzzles for dogs. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) mentions, as one would expect the RSPCA to do, the impact of conventional breeding, particularly on dogs - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) The answer is the EU, which imports 30 million tonnes of GM material every year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) of our first helpline for victims of rape and sexual abuse; the new elective recovery taskforce; gas imports - Speech Link
2: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) I went along yesterday to Guide Dogs Open Doors event in this House, where I was quite shocked to find - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Evidence also shows a recent rise in low-welfare imports and smuggling activity, with border authorities - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) pregnant dogs into care in the last couple of years—and that is just the Dogs Trust. - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) Ear cropping may be illegal in this country, but as it is still legal to import mutilated dogs, the dogs - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Amendment 2 would broaden the definition of “at large” dogs, by requiring non-exempt dogs in fields with - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) There is also a welfare code for working dogs, including hunting dogs, which is covered by the Animal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Fri 25 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) Of those, 86% agreed that measures to end imports of trophies should be introduced.Further to the point - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) A ban on trophy imports as a means of banning hunting seems to me to be colonialist behaviour. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) of animals.There are lots of other issues I could mention, including the mandatory microchipping of dogs - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) The Netherlands banned trophy-hunting imports of more than 200 species in 2016. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horseracing Industry - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) friend the progress of these discussions between the industry and our Government, and whether the future imports - Speech Link
2: Lord Lipsey (LAB - Life peer) Greyhound Racing, a JV company formed by Arena Racing Company and Entain to supply coverage of the dogs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Report stage - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) legislation could, I imagine, have honestly envisaged it applying to, for example, domestic cats and dogs - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) the European Food Safety Authority for approval before they could be sent to Northern Ireland, which imports - Speech Link