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Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 16 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) It also tackles the cruel trade of puppy smuggling. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishops - Bishops) I previously served in Scunthorpe, New York City, St Louis, Missouri, Westminster, the Isle of Dogs and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard _ Part 1 - Wed 16 Mar 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) By way of background, according to the most recent HMRC tax gap data, illegal smuggling and consumption - Speech Link
2: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) 1970s to prevent a Bill passing through the House of Commons that prevented the hunting of foxes by dogs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) On puppy smuggling, let us raise the age of the dogs coming in to a minimum of six months. - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) share my concern that the Government need to do more to protect them, as well as concerns about puppy smuggling - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) checks to ensure that that good work will not be in vain, and to put a stop to puppy smuggling once - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 04 Feb 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Stuart Anderson (CON - Wolverhampton South West) I remember my patrol coming back in one day and meeting one of the attack dogs—war dogs—in the operation - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) We also have the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill tackling puppy smuggling and the export of live animals - Speech Link
3: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) I was pulled in a sled by dogs, and there were reindeer. - Speech Link
4: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) It is a fantastic charity that has cared for dogs for more than 40 years, with approximately 100 dogs - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) and cats: the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) I note that the Secretary of State did not mention the ban on hunting with dogs—a law that needs to be - Speech Link
2: Jane Stevenson (CON - Wolverhampton North East) demonstrated that those fears were absolutely unfounded, whether in their work on animal sentience or puppy smuggling - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) , to stamp out the abhorrent crime of puppy smuggling, and banning the import of dogs that have been - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) That would indirectly stop the puppy smuggling trade because it would make it less likely that a fluffy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Online Animal Sales: Regulation - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Relevant document: Oral evidence before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 24 November 2020, Pet Smuggling - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) Government’s Petfished campaign, and said that the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill will end puppy smuggling - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) highlight the issue of cat breeding, which is sometimes overshadowed by the focus on puppy farms and smuggling - Speech Link
4: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) There are people out there who want to buy dogs that are mutilated. - Speech Link
5: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) That prohibition prevents licensed breeders from selling dogs not bred by them and from breeding dogs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
3rd reading - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (CON - Life peer) , 30 years ago, it was only the sober intervention of this House which prevented the then Dangerous Dogs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Smuggling: Kittens and Puppies - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) how the Government will fulfil their manifesto commitment to, among other things, crack down on puppy smuggling - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (CON - Life peer) The Government’s proposals to clamp down on puppy smuggling through new pet travel regulations governing - Speech Link
3: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) This would end the serious animal welfare and biosecurity problems caused by criminal smuggling. - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) My Lords, will my noble friend accept that the single most effective measure for reducing the smuggling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Pet Travel - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sheryll Murray (CON - South East Cornwall) which can significantly disrupt the movement of goods and people—are essential if puppy and kitten smuggling - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Member for South East Cornwall raised a whole series of absolutely appropriate questions around pet smuggling - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) I personally take all issues relating to the welfare of animals—particularly things such as puppy smuggling - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) to the enforcement regime as we believe the network of agencies and stakeholders who work on puppy smuggling - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting) - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) on animals is concentrated on dogs at the moment. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) New clauses 10, 11 and 12 are about the welfare of hunting dogs. - Speech Link
3: None priority area for review—I must confess that most of our recent conversations have been about puppy smuggling—nor - Speech Link