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Westminster Hall
Greyhound Welfare - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) racing is subject to the Horserace Betting Levy Board, which collects a statutory levy from the horse - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) That shining example of protecting welfare can be applied to all types of animal, but greyhound racing - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) standards for all racing greyhounds in England are covered by the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Welfare - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Agricultural Wages Board - Wed 24 Apr 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) Ministers’ incompetence will result in lower pay, higher welfare spending and more regulation, and it - Speech Link
2: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) similar number have their wages set against the AWB benchmark, including equestrian workers in the racing - Speech Link
3: Mary Creagh (LAB - Wakefield) We, the taxpayer, will pick up the in-work welfare bill. That will add to the deficit. - Speech Link
4: Owen Paterson (CON - North Shropshire) international markets.The industry has become highly scientific and mechanised, with developments in plant and animal - Speech Link
5: Huw Irranca-Davies (LAB - Ogmore) Some have commented that it is like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Responsible Dog Ownership - Tue 26 Feb 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) Police, local authorities and animal welfare groups work together in a few areas to promote responsible - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) welfare team has been awarded a gold footprint in this year’s RSPCA community animal welfare footprints - Speech Link
3: Huw Irranca-Davies (LAB - Ogmore) What a tragedy that is in terms of animal welfare. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Wed 14 Nov 2012
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) My Lords, this is not a Bill to set the pulse racing. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) Minister will, of course, be aware that there is a major doubt whether the Court of Appeal Oakley Inc v Animal - Speech Link
3: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) we look at what has happened under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act and the Welfare - Speech Link
4: Lord Mawson (CB - Life peer) There are many out there who would sceptically use “horse feathers” to describe it. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Industry: International Competitiveness - Thu 05 Jul 2012
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (CON - Life peer) climate in which to do business.More generally, I hope that we can recover some of what Keynes called “animal - Speech Link
2: Lord Bates (CON - Life peer) On sport, we are the home to Formula One, Wembley, Wimbledon, Lord’s for cricket, Newmarket for horse-racing - Speech Link
3: Lord Cavendish of Furness (CON - Life peer) Under Defra’s electronic tagging system, if a sheep tears a tag out, as frequently happens—there is an animal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Horses: Transportation - Thu 05 Jul 2012
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) In one paragraph, which is a comparison of the quality of animal welfare during transport before and - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) This country’s affection for the horse is reflected in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and especially in - Speech Link
3: Lord De Mauley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I applaud the work of World Horse Welfare and the Horse Trust, to which noble Lords have referred today - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Summer Adjournment - Tue 19 Jul 2011
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) About 1.2 million tonnes is recycled and reused for animal bedding, plywood, fibreboard and so on, but - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) box people and horse lorry suppliers.Point-to-points have been described as“the lifeblood of the racing - Speech Link
3: James Paice (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) He referred to the racing industry. - Speech Link
4: David Heath (LDEM - Somerton and Frome) afraid that I cannot guarantee that I will attend his public meeting—rate relief for empty properties, animal - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Wild Animals (Circuses) - Wed 08 Jun 2011
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Flello (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent South) It cannot be starting from scratch, as I understand from the Minister responsible for animal welfare - Speech Link
2: Duncan Hames (LDEM - Chippenham) In recent months, concerns have been expressed about other animal welfare issues, for example in horse - Speech Link
3: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) Is this not more about saving face than animal welfare? - Speech Link
4: James Paice (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) I said, that although section 12 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 permits legislation to “promote animal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 28 Apr 2011
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: John Penrose (CON - Weston-super-Mare) I am sure that most Members, and people in the racing family more widely, would agree with my hon. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Will he explain why betting on horse races is the responsibility of his Department, but what happens - Speech Link
3: John Penrose (CON - Weston-super-Mare) Lady is pursuing the point specifically about animal welfare with DEFRA, I will not go into that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Disadvantaged Children - Thu 20 Jan 2011
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) Parents are vital to the health and welfare of their children, as are their relationships, and we should - Speech Link
2: Lord Field of Birkenhead (CB - Life peer) wonderful change, but it must be the first Parliament in which more Members want to debate this than the horse - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) firefighting in politics.When a baby is born, he has only the “fight or flight” instinct, rather like an animal - Speech Link