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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) We all wish to have the very best welfare standards for pigs in this country. - Speech Link
4: 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


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee Debate: 10th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) reduce their costs to improve their profitability and to reward them for the work they do for the farmed - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) for people who, like me, have reached the age where their eyesight is not as good as it used to be. - Speech Link
3: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) We seem to have a very busy end of the year, and all manner of things will be coming forward. - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) For that reason, we said, “Let’s also address the problem at the other end of the scale.” - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) we can put in place all the right regulations and have all the abilities in the world for people to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Agriculture Bill (First sitting) - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None at the end of the day, it is very difficult to apply for certain schemes or to access all those things.I - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) flow at the end of it. - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) landscape and those farmed fields in the best way possible? - Speech Link
4: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) is used for, the food and animals that are used, and the threats that can come from wandering around - Speech Link
5: Chris Davies (CON - Brecon and Radnorshire) Long-term demand for lamb is in decline, as the age profile of lamb consumers is quite old. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) the very small spaces in which animals farmed for fur spend their entire lives. - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) which account for about 85% of those killed.The animals farmed for their fur—most commonly, but not exclusively - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) animal production, including animals farmed for fur. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sale of Puppies - Mon 21 May 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) little regard for the animals’ welfare. - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) We need protection there.Protection is the key word in all this: protection for the animals that will - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Mr Wilson went on:“There are still too many dogs being farmed for profit by callous individuals, many - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) conditions.The sad thing is that these are often the animals that are bought as pets but end up in the - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) Actually, some 700 puppies were seized in the course of three years for being under the age of 12 weeks - 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: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I also welcome CCTV in slaughterhouses, but can the Minister confirm that, in the UK, all animals are - 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 Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) As we have heard, all major UK supermarkets have either stopped selling enriched-cage eggs or have pledged - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Thu 13 Mar 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anne Main (CON - St Albans) There is also regard for how we as a society treat all animals, but in particular a protected species - Speech Link
2: Angela Smith (LDEM - Penistone and Stocksbridge) was found in the end that the pilot culling had to make use of cage trapping in addition to free-shooting - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) role that modern husbandry practices can play in placing chronic stress on intensively farmed animals - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Badgers: Bovine Tuberculosis - Mon 09 Dec 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) , our farmed animals and our farming community. - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Moreover, the animals have to be cage-trapped and restrained to allow injection—itself a stressful procedure - Speech Link
3: Duke of Montrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Can he help the Committee by telling us at what age young badgers catch TB and at what age they can be - Speech Link
4: Lord De Mauley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The decision that the licence for the extension should end was taken following discussions between the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Thu 25 Oct 2012
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) way forward.As I said, modern husbandry practices place chronic stress on intensively farmed animals - Speech Link
2: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) Do we not want to see those farmed cattle healthy and grazing in the fields? - Speech Link
3: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) One of the joys that come with old age is a long memory. - Speech Link
4: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), who showed the advantages of age and approaching the status of - Speech Link
5: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) Pistols are used for cage trapping and shooting, so that is a totally different technique. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare - Wed 09 Mar 2011
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) We all know that animals feel pain and fear. They have maternal instincts. - Speech Link
2: James Paice (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) They do not relate directly to farmed animals, at least not in the UK. My hon. - Speech Link