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Westminster Hall
Commercial Breeding for Laboratories - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) Does he agree that we should use this opportunity to once again make the UK a world leader by banning - Speech Link
2: Rosie Duffield (LAB - Canterbury) as chair of the all-party parliamentary dog advisory welfare group. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) We introduced the offence of unnecessary suffering, mutilation and animal fighting, and we promised to - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) I will make a little more progress, and then I will, of course, come back. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) theft of animals from the site. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Security Bill
Committee stage - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) As such, this seems to be really an offence of theft affecting a private actor. - Speech Link
2: None There is no specific criminal offence in UK law which criminalises the theft of trade secrets by, or - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) should not be a serious criminal offence. - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) Would it be a criminal offence for me to advise it on that? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Breed-specific Legislation - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) attacks should become a criminal offence and that owners should be criminally liable if their dog attacks - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) as being of a banned type, so that the dog could be put down and the owner could avoid facing criminal - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act makes it an offence to allow a dog of any breed or type to be “dangerously - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 10 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Fay Jones (CON - Brecon and Radnorshire) excellence, made cyber-flashing a criminal offence and got the Ministry of Defence to scrap the closure - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) I want to touch on a couple of specific measures announced today, starting with the levelling up Bill.I - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I make a plea to all hon. - Speech Link
4: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Where is the legislation that would make it an offence to lie about a candidate in speech, in print or - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) By making a specific provision that will allow our understanding of animal sentience to evolve as scientific - Speech Link
2: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) We now have charities that take dogs into schools to ensure that people can look after a dog or their - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Dogs have always been incredibly important to me—all my life, I have always had a dog. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Section 24 of the 1986 Act makes it a criminal offence for that information to be disclosed. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hare Coursing Bill - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) It involves a wide range of other criminal activities, including theft, trespass, criminal damage, violence - Speech Link
2: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) Hare coursing is linked not only to cruelty, but to other illegal activity, including theft, criminal - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) range of criminal activities, including theft, criminal damage—predominantly on our farms—violence and - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) owning or keeping a dog again.I will touch on a couple of questions that were raised. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (CON - Redditch) Lady has referred to a number of specific cases. - Speech Link
2: John Lamont (CON - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) Friend, I have seen a rise in that kind of offence in my constituency. - Speech Link
4: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) indicated that while the Department is not introducing a specific family reunion route, there is some - Speech Link
5: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust has identified a growing trend of theft or vandalism of defibrillators - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Committee stage - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None This amendment therefore creates a specific criminal offence of desecration of a corpse to address intentional - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) The specific offence proposed by the amendment also has a maximum penalty of three years—less than the - Speech Link
3: None As any dog owner subject to restrictions regarding where they can or cannot walk a dog will tell you, - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fifth sitting) - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Of course, the amendment, as drafted, is not actually about pet theft; it is about dog theft. - Speech Link
2: James Daly (CON - Bury North) I was a criminal defence solicitor for 16 years. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) We should make a new offence of pet abduction and this is an appropriate place to do that. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) offence relating to the taking or detaining of a dog so as to apply in relation to other species.Brought - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) licence, and it would make it an offence to be in possession of hunting dogs without a licence. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 09 Nov 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: James Daly (CON - Bury North) where a constable has reasonable grounds to believe that a criminal offence has taken place, and the - Speech Link
2: James Daly (CON - Bury North) for an act that has led to the owner being convicted of a criminal offence. - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) of a criminal offence is given responsibility for rehoming a dog. - Speech Link
4: James Daly (CON - Bury North) The maximum time in those kennels to make a dog compliant is currently four months, and then it can come - Speech Link
5: James Daly (CON - Bury North) You can commit a criminal offence, even though you did not know that you were doing so. - Speech Link