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Lords Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill - Fri 10 May 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) It creates two new criminal offences of the taking or detaining of a dog and the taking of a cat from - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) it not make sense to have a higher tariff than that set out in the Theft Act 1968 of seven years? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) The pet theft task force felt that the offence of pet abduction would shift the emphasis from the theft - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Pet Abduction Bill changes that by making abduction of a cat or a dog a specific offence in England - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) Security concerns at the site meant that 24-hour dog patrols had to be recruited to protect this perfectly - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) warning for the first offence. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) I will just make a technical point. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) It would make it easier to seize unregistered vehicles on the first offencea point elaborated on in - Speech Link
5: None Object.Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 26 April.Child Criminal Exploitation BillMotion made, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pet Abduction Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) The Bill, as drafted, states:“A person (A) commits the offence of dog abduction if they— (a) take a dog - Speech Link
2: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) offence of theft should be applied under the Theft Act 1968. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) no surprise that the vast majority of the public support making pet theft a specific offence.My constituency - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) That is why the pet theft taskforce recommended in 2021 that a new offence of pet abduction be created—a - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None but it is not a criminal offence. - Speech Link
2: None confirmed that there were no plans to introduce a new criminal offence of identity theft as ‘existing - Speech Link
3: None offence of identity theft. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Under the Fraud Act 2006, it is a criminal offence to make a gain from the use of another person’s identity - Speech Link
5: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) is not a criminal offence”. - Speech Link


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