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Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Prices for specific dog breeds doubled, and the UK market struggled to keep up. - Speech Link
2: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) for other pets.Although dogs and cats are now sentient beings under the law, there is no specific offence - Speech Link
3: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) Theft was a huge problem during the pandemic. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Off-road Biking - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) I declare that I am chair of the all-party parliamentary group on motorcycling, so I take a very specific - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) a dog, and we know that the riders often do not have full control, or may not see the dog. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) We are about to make an amendment on Report to the Criminal Justice Bill to change and expand the existing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) They make a house a home. - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) I am glad that we have gone further today in having a specific offence of cat abduction. - Speech Link
3: Oliver Heald (Con - North East Hertfordshire) is just thefta criminal offence under the Theft Act. - Speech Link
4: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) it as a specific offence. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) offences, to a fine or to both”.The Bill will make it an offence to send, transport or organise transport - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Where is the plan to stop pet theft? - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) , the Pets (Theft and Importation) Bill, just a few months ago, if they had wanted to go down that route - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) DEFRA—I am sure the Minister knows what I am going to say—to look again at Emilie’s law and criminalising dog-on-dog - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) I knew that we were to get a lecture on Emilie’s law as she is a campaigner who wants to stop dog-on-dog - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) We have created an extra offence, with a longer sentence, for those who are violent towards a shop worker - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) The Competition and Markets Authority is not only the dog that does not bark, but the dog that does not - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) If there is a specific issue that she would like to highlight, we are prepared to look at it, but she - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton South) If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) We also reviewed whether a new and specific offence was needed. - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) specific pet abduction offence. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) would like a specific offence of spiking to be introduced. - Speech Link
4: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) historic opportunity to make spiking a separate, specific offence defined in law and to send a very clear - Speech Link
5: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) campaign for a specific offence of spiking. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) acquisitive crime is hitting rural communities hard, with high-value agricultural equipment targeted for theft - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) That is a criminal offence and it should not be encouraged. - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) We have already announced a specific policy with respect to dependants, which comes into force at the - Speech Link
4: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. - Speech Link
5: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) award-winning Cotswold Canals Trust volunteers have had enough of antisocial behaviour such as graffiti, dog - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Legislation on Dangerous Dogs - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) From 1 February 2024, it will be a criminal offence to own an XL bully dog in England and Wales unless - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) criminal offence to own an XL bully in England or Wales without a certificate of exemption.Dogs suspected - Speech Link
3: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) I saw a report in the paper—I will not refer to the specific case—where a dog was used in an attack, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) , car theft, criminal damage and shoplifting.At the heart of the Government’s legislative programme for - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) criminal offence of possessing a bladed article with the intent to use it in unlawful violence. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) In many cases, the signal that Ministers and their colleagues have been putting out has not been a dog - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), has also called for a spiking offence. - Speech Link
5: Paul Holmes (Con - Eastleigh) ; it is a working-class, ex-railway town that has specific issues with crime. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We are determined to put a stop to this and will therefore introduce a specific offence of organising - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) We will also create a specific new offence of assault against retail workers. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) For example, measures to address dog theft more seriously and the import of puppy-farmed dogs were in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We will create a new specific offence of assault against retail workers, because everyone has the right - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) It is important to mention that stalking is a criminal offence. - Speech Link