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Select Committee
Guide dogs, Assistance Dogs UK, and Dogs for Good

Oral Evidence May. 22 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Q10 Carolyn Harris: If someone is denied travel in a car or access to a restaurant, is there a process


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
National Lyme Disease Awareness Month - Wed 22 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Torrance, David (SNP - Kirkcaldy) ourselves and others about the risks that are associated with ticks—let us share information, check our pets - Speech Link
2: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) There is a genuine risk of ticks attaching to pets and subsequently moving on to individuals in the home—unfortunately - Speech Link
3: Eagle, Tim (Con - Highlands and Islands) From there, they travel through the bloodstream to other fixed tissues, such as joints, the heart and - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Export of live animals banned
Document: Export of live animals banned (webpage)

Found: have been clear that animals should only be transported when necessary, and if possible should not travel


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Living in Qatar
Document: Living in Qatar (webpage)

Found: See our information and advice page for the LGBT community before you travel.


Written Question
Pets: Travel
Friday 17th May 2024

Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to lay the Windsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations before Parliament.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government is continuing to take forward work on the arrangements for the movement of pet animals under the Windsor Framework and will set out further detail in due course.


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2 - Wed 08 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) farm products such as feedstuff for animals, crops for energy or fibre, and animals that are kept as pets - Speech Link
2: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) processing facilities were available, rather than food being produced in Scotland and then having to travel - Speech Link


Open Petition since 21st May 2024

Remove requirement to register pets as manifest cargo for flights to/from the UK - 148 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 1,029 - 5 added in the past 24hrs)

Although UK has one of the highest number of pets, rules for air travel for pets are strict. You aren't allowed to travel with 'an accompanied pet', neither in cabin or hold. Pets have to be registered as manifest cargo. We want this requirement to be removed.

Found: Pets are family.


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) I have to show a bus pass every time I get on a bus to show that I am old enough to travel for free. - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) We are seeing not only domestic animals, such as cats and dogs and things that we love as pets, getting - Speech Link


Select Committee
Letter from Lord Jay of Ewelme to Rt Hon Steve Baker MP: re veterinary medicines, 30 April 2024

Correspondence Apr. 30 2024

Committee: Windsor Framework Sub-Committee

Found: industries, primarily farming and agrifood, but also for show animals such as horses and companion animals (pets


Westminster Hall
Assisted Dying - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) particularly because she raises a very valid point about the cost of that option for those who can afford to travel - Speech Link
2: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) this fate and to seek assisted death abroad, but that comes at a substantial cost of some £15,000 to travel - Speech Link
3: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) being able to choose her time of death with dignity, whereas at present the only choice might be to travel - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) they have to be well enough to make the journey, so they die too soon.For those who cannot afford to travel - Speech Link
5: Damien Egan (Lab - Kingswood) different visit, a woman from a local “save our green spaces” group said to me that we do not treat our pets - Speech Link