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Commons Chamber
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (Designation)
1st reading - Wed 13 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) or geological or physiographical features.The current system of notification was put in place by the Wildlife - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The Bill also repeals Sections 40 to 49 of the Animal Health Act 1981. - Speech Link
2: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) to the most monumental changes brought about by farming policy since the Agriculture Act 1947. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) agree that the ruination of small abattoirs by EU rules is also something that we should be able to act - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) 1981, banning the keeping of primates as pets, and protecting sheep from dangerous dogs.When the Government - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2023 - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) 1981 or the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) Wildlife and Countryside Link—which states:“In the press release that accompanied the draft Regulations - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) the targets of the Environment Act. - Speech Link
2: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, you need a licence. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hedgerows: Legal Protection - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) be removed, and local authorities have powers to act should anybody break the law. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) We have a plan, which started with the Environment Act 2021 and the targets set in it, and includes the - 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) (Sentience) Act 2022. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) (Sentience) Act 2022. - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) UK Labour party saying it will stop control of the wildlife reservoir for tuberculosis, when it has been - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) We are the custodians of the countryside and we care about the welfare of our livestock, so I am keen - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) Our agricultural reforms are about delivering better outcomes, so that the countryside and wildlife that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) I am grateful to the Wildlife and Countryside Link, ClientEarth and the NFU for their briefings. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 contains protections for nesting birds—precisely the point that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Substitution of Cut-off Date Relating to Rights of Way) (England) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Access to the Countryside Act 1949. - Speech Link
2: Lord Rosser (Lab - Life peer) statements only under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. - Speech Link
3: None The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 sets out the existing procedures for applying for a definitive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) First, under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 under which the designation took place, if Natural - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Friend is correct in his description of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Protection of Seals - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) In the light of that, I urge the Government to amend the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to make the - Speech Link
2: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) The Act is equally applicable in inland waters, rivers, coastal areas and territorial waters.It is also - Speech Link