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General Committees
Draft Official Controls (Fees and Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Draft Plant Health (Fees) (England) and Official Controls (Frequency of Checks) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) equipment, consumables and tools, services delegated to other bodies, the cost of training, the cost of travel - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) than 350 consignments of EU high-risk plants were intercepted, including 131 due to the presence of a quarantine - 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) The pet travel scheme—PETS—allows pet cats, dogs and ferrets to enter the UK without quarantine as long - Speech Link
2: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) In 2015, Dogs Trust set up the puppy pilot through which it funds the quarantine cost of illegally imported - Speech Link
3: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) The pet travel scheme requires microchipping, rabies vaccination, a mandatory pre-travel waiting period - Speech Link
4: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) To move under the pet travel rules, the pet and its owner must travel within five days of each other. - 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: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) we will have to rely on imports with all the consequent biosecurity risks.We also need a high-level quarantine - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) to imported wildlife as applies to our livestock and fish industries, with improved border controls, quarantine - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) video-links for an appeal made from Rwanda; authorise the provision of any necessary medical help or quarantine - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) not be put on flights, grounds that the Home Office is very used to dealing with through fitness to travel - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) it is not a safe country, if the political situation changes, or if the Foreign Office changes its travel - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Health Regulations 2005 - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) bioethical rights, such as requirements for vaccinations and medical examinations, and implementing quarantine - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) vaccination or other prophylaxis; place suspect persons under public health observation; implement quarantine - Speech Link
3: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) amendments to implement an international global health certification system enabling nations to enforce travel - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) are on the side of motorists, and the 30 measures in our Plan for Drivers will ensure that people can travel - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) This includes senior Defence and Foreign Office Ministers, whose duties involve travel away, and therefore - Speech Link
3: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) to be accepting live animals into this country, but my understanding is that there is no centralised quarantine - Speech Link
4: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) While business travel and commuting numbers are still down compared with those before Covid, leisure - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Loneliness and Connecting Communities - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The quarantine period during covid absolutely exacerbated that. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) The Scottish Government have taken that scheme over, and we now have free bus travel anywhere in Scotland - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK’s Exit from the European Union - Mon 24 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) European Union on school trips has halved because of bureaucracy around group visas and the inability to travel - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) shortages in key sectors, including the crucial health and care sector, due to the simple matter of travel - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) The School Travel Forum reported a reduction from 13,000 overseas trips in 2019 to just 2,500 in the - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Indeed, if people do not sell their cattle, they have to put them under quarantine for three months. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2023 - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) We then made fairly generous alleviations for the four subsequent seasons, while travel restrictions - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Jeffrey M Donaldson (DUP - Lagan Valley) and having to bring some of them back because they have not been sold at market; they face six weeks’ quarantine - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We have the impact on nurseries, the purchase of steel, car dealers, farmers and pet travel. - Speech Link