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Public Bill Committees
Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) offence is so aggravated.”This amendment would make an offence covered by this Bill more serious for - Speech Link
2: None This simple amendment would make it a more serious animal cruelty offence for the purpose of sentencing - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) Section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003 creates a specific offence of sending grossly offensive - Speech Link
4: Chris Loder (CON - West Dorset) ; docking the tail of a dog, except where permitted; administering a poison to an animal; and involvement - Speech Link
5: None in a case, they are best placed to make those decisions. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Massey of Darwen (LAB - Life peer) child could be used to commit a criminal offence without there being a risk of danger, physical or psychological - Speech Link
2: None However, reliance on the HRA to make up for the lack of any specific constraint on the type of criminal - Speech Link
3: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) sexual offence against, any person. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) vote as soon as possible—certainly before the black dog that is conjured in my mind as a result of our - Speech Link
5: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) If we create a checklist in the Bill, we make it very easy for criminal gangs to write themselves a list - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 23 Oct 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (CON - West Dorset) Section 6 outlines the offence of docking the tail of a dog except where permitted. - Speech Link
2: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Act need to make specific reference to pet theft and strongly communicate the emotional trauma to the - Speech Link
3: Jane Stevenson (CON - Wolverhampton North East) obviously a serious offence as well. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Pet Theft - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Making pet theft a specific offence, as the petitions call for, would elevate pet theft to a category - Speech Link
2: Gareth Johnson (CON - Dartford) specific offence of dog theft. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) The theft of a pet is already a criminal offence under the Theft Act 1968, with a maximum penalty of - Speech Link
4: David Amess (CON - Southend West) It is absolutely ridiculous.The Government must amend the Theft Act 1968 and make pet theft a specific - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 16 Oct 2020
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) North West Durham (Mr Holden) rightly said, substance misuse is an extremely important issue for our criminal - Speech Link
2: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) I am wondering, with Spice, if there is an animal—a dog—that can sniff it, and how the heck do we trace - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (CON - Wantage) However, this Bill is doing a very specific thing to try to update the testing system, because, quite - Speech Link
4: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) The possession and use of these substances is a specific criminal offence under a number of pieces of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Thu 23 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) that we make a success of it all and make a success of the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
2: None .(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction—(a) in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) We would not like it if people brought back bits of dead dog in their luggage. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) guilty of the offence after 31 December 2021. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) , who moved this amendment splendidly—what we are up against.I have a specific suggestion to make to - Speech Link
2: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) It is a criminal activity, often deliberately undertaken by people who, as it were, make a profession - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) Damage, theft, poaching and the theft of diesel are all criminal acts. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Mon 24 Feb 2020
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Keen of Elie (CON - Life peer) sentence for a terrorist offence or an offence with a terrorist connection. - Speech Link
2: Lord Keen of Elie (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I am not in a position to give a specific answer to that focused point with regard to the institution - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.” - Speech Link
4: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) prisoner who has committed a terrorist offence. - Speech Link
5: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) These people, however, do not have a deep-seated belief in the fundamental rightness of theft or robbery - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]
2nd reading (Hansard) - Tue 04 Feb 2020
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) a serious offence by another country. - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) , and then there is the dog that does not bark, or perhaps the dog that just whines in the corner: paragraph - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) offence is a serious extradition offence, and that the conduct is sufficiently serious that the certificate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Policing and Crime - Wed 29 Jan 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) That does not mean dog-whistle rhetoric on law and order; it means genuinely making people safer. - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) powers in respect of anyone serving all or part of their sentence for a knife possession offence in - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Is he yet convinced of the need, as we are on the Opposition Benches, for specific offences to make it - Speech Link
4: Jo Stevens (LAB - Cardiff Central) This is a major public health issue, a major policing issue and a major criminal justice issue, but none - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) We have seen a rise in crime, particularly in knife crime, across specific parts of the country. - Speech Link