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Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None To ensure that our own excellent farmers, who have high animal welfare standards, are not undercut by - Speech Link
2: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) Furthermore, all imports of live animals must be transported in accordance with our animal welfare in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fookes (Con - Life peer) It would be aimed rather at the sort of animals that would be going over for racing, showjumping and - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) My personal observation is that it is blindingly obvious when you are taking a horse to a race or a show - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In my view, animal welfare should not be devolved; animal welfare is animal welfare wherever it is and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) Collaborative efforts between the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission and the UK Animal Welfare Committee - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) On the EFRA Committee we heard harrowing evidence from World Horse Welfare that the practice still goes - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) 14 pledges on animal welfare. - Speech Link
4: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) Welfare Foundation, the RSPCA, World Horse Welfare and all those who have worked so hard to get us to - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) I am pleased that the Bill will enable racehorses to continue to travel for racing and breeding, provided - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill.Tuesday 19 December—Consideration of an allocation of time motion, - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) It is the very definition of flogging a dead horse. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) Over the last year, Red Bull Racing smashed through every record in the Formula 1 season, winning 21 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Horserace Betting Levy Board and Horse Welfare - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) I phoned the chairman of the Horse Welfare Board and said, “All signs point to you. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) Why is it always the animal welfare sector that has to deal with the external costs of horseracing and - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) welfare but to animal welfare in general. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Horseracing - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) arises from a lack of knowledge about animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) I have chaired the World Horse Welfare conference for the last couple of years. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) It works closely with a range of animal welfare organisations, such as World Horse Welfare, to maintain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tracey Crouch (CON - Chatham and Aylesford) David and I shared a passion for animal welfare and were often at the same briefing events here on the - Speech Link
2: Tony Lloyd (LAB - Rochdale) and resources to the developing world, which simply is not being done today.The third little hobby horse - Speech Link
3: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Our location on the north-south route made us an important stopping place for horse-drawn coaches going - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) have been specific issues of antisocial behaviour, with dangerous motorbiking in Nonington and car racing - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries - Thu 14 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) horses and betting on which horse will win. - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) animal, with its fight and flight responses geared up, to charge up a hill at about 30 miles per hour - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The BHA works alongside the RSPCA and World Horse Welfare to make horseracing as safe as possible. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living and Brexit - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) That is equivalent to going to a horse race with £500, coming back with £8 and telling everybody that - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) I now have to announce the results of today’s deferred Division.On the draft Animal By-Products, Pet - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (LAB - City of Durham) The austerity policies of David Cameron and George Osborne hollowed out our welfare state and left us - Speech Link
4: James Davies (CON - Vale of Clwyd) Let us not forget the money squandered by the Welsh Government on a racing circuit never to be built, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
2nd reading: Part 2 - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lindsay (CON - Excepted Hereditary) of animals and the UK’s ability to export animal products to EU member states; could result in diminished - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) welfare, on vaccine rollout, on freeports and on diverging from EU solvency rules. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The French are racing towards getting rid of single-use containers in fast food stores—that is within - Speech Link
4: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) import meat; health marks on meat; labelling of beef; country of origin labelling on food—remember the horse - 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) welfare, including passing the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 and working on an animal sentience - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) Not one horse is moved legally from the UK to Europe for slaughter, but it is likely that thousands are - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) We believe in honouring animal welfare, and will always push for the strongest possible animal welfare - Speech Link