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Westminster Hall
Importation and Sale of Foie Gras - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) ensuring that animal welfare standards are not compromised in trade deals; to cracking down on the illegal smuggling - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) launched the dedicated Committee to work on it; we have made microchipping compulsory for cats as well as dogs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Import of Dogs
1st reading - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) years, my constituents have been getting in touch with me about the issue of cropped ears and puppy smuggling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Border Target Operating Model: Food and Biosecurity - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) That includes puppy smuggling, the smuggling of heavily pregnant dogs and those that have had their ears - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) manifesto commitments to ban the live export of animals for slaughter and to crack down on the illegal smuggling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) on animal welfare is a source of great pride, but, sadly, too many abuses remain—from pet theft, the smuggling - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) know that the export of small boats across parts of the European continent is a vital element of the smuggling - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Animals: Welfare - Thu 13 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) by really good charities, such as the Dogs Trust. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) improve the health and well-being of animals, including those on the prevention of puppy and kitten smuggling - Speech Link
3: Lord Bird (CB - Life peer) The problem is that there are few places where homeless people can take their dogs. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Whether hostels allow dogs is a matter for the people who control those hostels. - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) The noble Viscount’s point is really important and also applies to dogs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) are no further forward today on banning animal fur imports, or on tackling illegal puppy and kitten smuggling - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Can she tell me the progress on two specific changes: the ban on the import of dogs with cropped ears - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) We legislated to require the microchipping of cats, in addition to dogs, because that can act as an effective - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Import and Sale of Fur - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) for her intervention.Let me return to the condition of animals on fur farms, including foxes, raccoon dogs - Speech Link
2: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) which of course it is, and that it causes suffering, which of course it does—while foxes and raccoon dogs - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) ensuring that animal welfare standards are not compromised in trade deals; cracking down on the illegal smuggling - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) We made microchipping compulsory for cats as well as dogs. - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Those include fur and fur products from cats and dogs, whose import, export and placing on the market - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jane Stevenson (CON - Wolverhampton North East) My question is on puppy smuggling—Lucy’s law. - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) We have cracked down on the illegal smuggling of dogs and puppies, and we will bring forward cat microchipping - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) It said, word for word:“We will crack down on the illegal smuggling of dogs and puppies… We will end - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) I have said that we will crack down on the illegal smuggling of dogs and puppies, and we will, but I - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Bill with, so that we can see an end to live exports for slaughter and have a crackdown on the illegal smuggling - Speech Link