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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) It is not about banning hunting, although I might have a view on that; it is about protecting endangered - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) Gentleman, we are not banning trophy hunting in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) hunting, more land has been conserved under trophy hunting than under National Parks, with hunting areas - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) The wider public support for it is reflected in the fact that banning hunting trophies was both a 2019 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill   - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Where is the action on puppy smuggling, and why has the trophy hunting ban not gone through as an Act - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) trophy exports could come through Northern Ireland and get into GB. - Speech Link
3: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) Member for Crawley has done excellent work on trophy hunting. - Speech Link
4: Mike Penning (Con - Hemel Hempstead) Why are we still importing it, and why are we not banning it? - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) trophy imports, so I look forward to hearing imminent news on those important areas as well. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) hunting, among other examples of letting us down on animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Banning live exports is the right thing to do. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) party made four years ago and that featured in most of the main parties’ political manifestos, was the banning - Speech Link
2: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) think it a crying shame that it was missing from the King’s Speech.The other petition concerns the banning - Speech Link
3: Feryal Clark (Lab - Enfield North) This Government have chosen to delay banning section 21 evictions for four years. - Speech Link
4: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) We shall see.Some promises have been completely omitted, including the shameful U-turn on banning conversion - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The Hunting Act, passed nearly 20 years ago, was supported by many for what they thought were sound animal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Examples are the keeping of primates as pets and the ban on the import of hunting trophies—so vehemently - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) What will happen with the trophy hunting import Bill that just collapsed? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 07 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) In fact, although there was a song and dance about how the Government were no longer banning the sale - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (Con - Chipping Barnet) Such legislation has strong support, but the private Member’s Bill—the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) welcome, I hear regularly from constituents who want more action from the Government on puppy smuggling, trophy - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Importation and Sale of Foie Gras - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) Friend on securing the debate; I had a similar debate on the banning of the importation of foie gras - Speech Link
2: Giles Watling (Con - Clacton) As with the much-desired ban on trophy hunting, which is a ridiculous sport, we should ban such imports - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) May I ask her, very gently: why has the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill gone, why has the Hunting - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) the keeping of primates as pets; to banning live shipments of animals; and to ensuring that farmers, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I do not own a hunting trophy and agree that some criticisms of trophy hunting, when it is not carried - Speech Link
2: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) Hunting, Dr Adam Cruise, concerning trophy hunting in Botswana? - Speech Link
3: None As we have heard, the Government committed to banning all trophy imports: it was a manifesto commitment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 14 Jul 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (CON - Life peer) to handle at around six months old, so they are often sold or killed, with lions sometimes sent to hunting - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) lions in South Africa cuddled by paying tourists when they were cubs may end up being shot by paying trophy - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Banning the promotion of tourist activities abroad involving interaction with wild animals that would - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) However, to realise this ambition the Bill must deliver effectively its objective of banning the promotion - Speech Link


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: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) did not mention; we are exactly where we were two years ago on banning animal fur imports, which the - Speech Link
3: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) on trophy hunting imports, which is currently in the other place. - Speech Link
4: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) such as having a register of banned welfare abusers and banning the online sale of puppies. - Speech Link
5: Andrea Jenkyns (CON - Morley and Outwood) The Bill would have led the world in furthering protections for animals by banning the cruel trade of - Speech Link