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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: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) trail hunting on council-owned land. - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) that intervention, and for all the work and effort she made to make that possible.Labour passed the Hunting - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) They include the bans on fox hunting and fur farming and the action taken to stop experimentation on - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Oct. 31 2023

Source Page: Hunting with Dogs Consultation (November 2021): EIR release
Document: Hunting with Dogs Organisational Responses - 202300345554 (Excel)

Found: Hunting with Dogs Consultation (November 2021): EIR release

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 01 Nov 2023

Mentions:
1: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) We are not proposing to ban the sale of snares but we propose to ban their use. - Speech Link
2: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) Dogs can be used to flush foxes to guns for the protection of livestock, as per the Hunting with Dogs - Speech Link
3: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) Jim Fairlie just brought up the issue of licensing under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023. - Speech Link
4: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) A lot of those nations have big economic sectors around hunting. - Speech Link
5: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) am still concerned that we heard from the police that every call will automatically create a paper trail - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Duke of Wellington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The water regulator—I assume Ofwat—will have the power to ban bonuses. - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) Before the election, Labour said many things on animal welfare, yet where is the ban on trophy hunting - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) I was disappointed when the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill was abandoned by the previous - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) enable us to tackle the horrendous crimes of puppy smuggling and puppy farming, to close loopholes on trail - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Wed 17 Jul 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) I am glad that the Government will finally ban no-fault evictions for good.Lastly, I am proud to be an - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) hope that, at the very least, His Majesty’s new Government will reintroduce and ram through the trophy hunting - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) must admit I was disappointed not to read of any animal welfare legislation, such as the banning of hunting - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Knife and Sword Ban - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) cheap jibes or sound bites, because the truth is that serious violence and knife crime leave the same trail - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Kalabe was killed by a single stab wound to the heart with a large hunting knife, which was later found - Speech Link
3: Feryal Clark (Lab - Enfield North) My question is this: why wait, if they can ban those weapons now? - Speech Link
4: Feryal Clark (Lab - Enfield North) If their ban had been successful, we would not be debating the issue today. - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (Independent report)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Oct. 09 2023

Source Page: Animal welfare - Scottish Government activity: Scottish Animal Welfare Commission review
Document: Scottish Animal Welfare Commission: Review of Scottish Government Activity affecting the Welfare of Animals, as Sentient Beings (PDF)

Found: Hunting with dogs The Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill, implementing the majority of the recommendations

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Jan. 10 2024

Source Page: Briefing on Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill for Rural Affairs and Islands Committee: EIR release
Document: 202300364199_Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill - Stage 1 ministerial evience session - briefing (final version) (PDF)

Found: The Senedd has also recently passed a ban on the use of glue traps.

Early Day Motion
Time For Change Coalition Against Hunting (11 Signatures)
20 Jun 2023
Tabled by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
That this House is concerned that hunting with dogs is still taking place in England and Wales under the guise of trail hunting and exemptions in the law; recognises that the ban on hunting with dogs is weak and is failing to protect animals from cruelty; believes that until this …
Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) We will ban the keeping of primates as pets and imports of hunting trophies and endangered species. - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) Friend the Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) introduced a Bill to ban the import of hunting trophies, - Speech Link
3: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) The Assembly even rejected an attempt to ban hunting with dogs and we have made no progress on issues - Speech Link
4: Samantha Dixon (LAB - City of Chester) Cheshire West and Chester Council was one of the first to ban permanently the practice of trail hunting - Speech Link
5: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) She also pointed out the trailblazing work by her council on trail hunting, which others have since adopted - Speech Link