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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


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Mon 08 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (LAB - Life peer) Is “gold-plated” not a dog-whistle call to opponents of human rights? - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) We will make intentional trespass a criminal offence.” That is very interesting wording. - Speech Link
3: None It is a strange form of careless driving which amounts to a criminal offence but enables you to pass - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) criminal offence to operate such a vehicle in London without a licence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None new offence of pet theft. - Speech Link
2: None new offence of pet theft. - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Can the Minister tell us how many prosecutions have taken place for theft of a dog? - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) to make it clear that the offence relates to a photograph or video of a breast? - Speech Link
5: None Do we want to make it a criminal act? That is not a point of drafting—that is a point of principle. - Speech Link
6: None by the police as a criminal offence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part two - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None I find particularly chilling the new role of a private individual in triggering a criminal offence. - Speech Link
2: None is already a criminal offence, but the proposals under the Bill create a new offence of residing on - Speech Link
3: None private citizen that a criminal offence has taken place. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We will make intentional trespass a criminal offence”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (CON - Romford) It will introduce fines for mid-ranging animal welfare and health offences, preserving criminal prosecution - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) theft and all the other animal-related crimes. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Friend is right that that should apply not just to pets, because the theft of any animal is a serious - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Bill retains the existing exemption to the offence of being in charge of a dog “at large” with livestock - Speech Link