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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) that none of the commentators could respond when I asked, “How can you defend someone who wants to travel - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Members care about CITES, then perhaps the Bill should include pets as well.I do not believe anybody - 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) One is for the travel of owners with pets and the other is for the commercial import of pet animals. - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) The pet travel scheme—PETS—allows pet cats, dogs and ferrets to enter the UK without quarantine as long - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Pet travel rules have made travelling with pets both cheaper and easier for owners. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Neonicotinoids and other Pesticides - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) we have established that neonics are a concern for bees, we also need to understand the direction of travel - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) He made a point about flea treatment for pets, and I think that issue will rise and rise in salience. - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) The Department needs to be careful that such products are of benefit to pets, but also of their impact - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Gentleman’s constituents in Huddersfield to travel more quickly across West Yorkshire to Leeds and Bradford - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) and want to live peacefully in their home are not surrounded by people who deal drugs, breed illegal pets - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) This has caused longer travel times for the animals regionally. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) have differences—again, an animal welfare issue—came after assurances from the Secretary of State that pets - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) not: banning puppy smuggling, amending the Zoo Licensing Act 1981, banning the keeping of primates as pets - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) For example, pigs can become very travel sick, even on very short journeys. - Speech Link
5: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) manifesto commitments, which are to crack down on illegal puppy smuggling, ban the keeping of primates as pets - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) hunting with dogs, to the Animal Welfare Act 2006, which put in place strong domestic protections for pets - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) called that “mess of complexity”, but that does not mean that we are not clear about the direction of travel - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) range of areas such as medicines, customs, the transportation of goods, agri-food, the movement of pets - Speech Link
2: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) Goods that do not travel through the red lane will have to travel through the green lane—aka the UK internal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) must be based on a balance of consumption and production.The ultimate destination of the inputs that travel - Speech Link
4: None Sometimes those of us from Northern Ireland who travel to this place will complain about our journey. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) human, animal and plant pathogens are spread by human-mediated transport, which means that they can travel - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) that.Another specific proposal that has been made is that there should be a positive list for exotic pets - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) years.RSPCA and Born Free research has highlighted that zoonotic disease spread by the import of exotic pets - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) 15 years I have managed a large independent veterinary practice which provides care and services to pets - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) put very much at risk as companies collect information on where they live, what they buy, how they travel - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) we have brought forward compulsory cat microchipping, and we are banning the keeping of primates as pets - Speech Link
2: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) The export of live animals somewhat suggests travel by sea and, because we do not have an abattoir on - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) due to sail from the port of Ramsgate and 42 sheep were humanely killed after being found unfit to travel - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) ensure that sufficient numbers of abattoirs are spread around the country to reduce the distance to travel - Speech Link
5: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Just last week, we talked about banning the keeping of primates as pets. - Speech Link