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

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) It certainly is not fun for the innocent animals, who may suffer for hours on end because the hunter - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) That would mean that this ban would cover all the big five animals, other trophy-hunted species and many - Speech Link
3: Dean Russell (CON - Watford) It is for us all to live on it, and that includes our animals too. - Speech Link
4: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) mandatory microchipping of dogs and banning the use of battery cages for laying hens. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Farmed Animals: Cages - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (CON - Stockton South) cage farming meant the end of the cage age, and that our chickens now enjoy the freedom they are naturally - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) European Commission plans to ban cages for all farmed animals, hopefully by 2027. - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) end of the cage age. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to end the cage age once and for all.If we look to our European neighbours, we see that banning the - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) Websites should be required to verify the identity of all sellers, and for young animals for sale pictures - Speech Link
2: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) It is important that all adverts display the age of the animal advertised. - Speech Link
3: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) Personally, I would like to ban the sale of all sentient beings online, but I have to accept that that - Speech Link
4: Mike Penning (CON - Hemel Hempstead) side of the road in cages. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) My preference would be to end all online sales, but I understand that that is how the world now operates - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Real Fur Sales - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) We agree, first of all, that in this day and age there is no justification whatsoever for using real - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) for their fur, as long as these animals are not farmed here, we are content for their fur to be imported - Speech Link
3: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) ) Bill, an end to lab testing with animals, stiffer penalties for cruelty to animals, a ban on the use - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) of farmed animals, including farmed animals on agricultural land, at market, in transit and at the place - Speech Link
2: Baroness Redfern (CON - Life peer) pets illegal and ban the import of hunting trophies.The Government promise to review the use of cages - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) So should we ban the killing of animals for meat? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) We currently have 65 billion farmed animals on this planet, and 80% of livestock is kept at the moment - Speech Link
2: None I agree on battery cages. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) , are key to ensuring the good welfare of all farmed animals. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Caging of Farm Animals - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) The petitioners“call on the UK government to end this inhumane practice by banning all cages for farmed - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) SNP Members of the European Parliament backed theEnd the cage age” campaign. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) we should end the cage age one day, but not yet. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) TheEnd the cage age” petition calls for a ban on the use of barren and enriched cages for farmed animals - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None 12—Sow farrowing stalls—“Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 6 of the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) It may be called a crate or a stall, but it is effectively a cage. - Speech Link
3: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) It is all very well saying, “Let’s ban the importation of pig products not produced to our high standards - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) dilemma around the smoking ban. - Speech Link
5: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimates that around 350,000 deer are culled - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Fur Trade - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) dogs are kept in“wire-mesh cages on fur farms for months on end”and“coyotes and other animal are caught - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) the very small spaces in which animals farmed for fur spend their entire lives. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) typical cage in fur farms—not just the worst cage, but that used most frequently—“does not provide for - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) animal production, including animals farmed for fur. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Plans to Improve the Natural Environment and Animal Welfare - Thu 07 Dec 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) Of course, any ban on live exports should apply only to animals for slaughter and not to breeding or - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) food which influences the way that animals are farmed. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Shrewsbury (CON - Excepted Hereditary) future generations along the lines of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) We have been waiting for a piece of legislation to ban the use of wild animals in circuses for some years - Speech Link