Animal Welfare: Penalties

Lord Clark of Windermere Excerpts
Monday 16th January 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Clark of Windermere Portrait Lord Clark of Windermere (Lab)
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My Lords, the noble Lord has raised the issue of endangered species. Is he concerned about the paucity of the level of sentencing in cases where people are caught persecuting and killing endangered species of birds? Have the Government considered switching the responsibility from possibly the gamekeeper to the landowner?

Lord Gardiner of Kimble Portrait Lord Gardiner of Kimble
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My Lords, obviously all these matters are already subject to the law. No, there has been no consideration about moving liability to other than where it is now. We think that we have a robust law in place. Obviously, as I have said, if any issues needed to be reviewed, we would do so.