Dog Licensing

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes Excerpts

Tuesday 16th December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord De Mauley]

My Lords, I know that the noble Lord is a staunch campaigner on doggie matters. What we are doing—he referred to this—and which goes a long way to achieving what people want from a licensing scheme, is introducing compulsory microchipping under which the record of a dog’s ownership will be maintained on a database.

[Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes (Con)]

My Lords, does my noble friend not agree—especially as it comes from someone he would describe as a doggie person—that microchipping is particularly important where dangerous dogs are involved, such as dogs listed in the recent Dangerous Dogs Act?

[Lord De Mauley]

My noble friend is absolutely right.