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Scottish Parliament Select Committee
This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1.
 Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

Report Mar. 18 2024

Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: She referred to section 4(2) as “a specific power for a very specific purpose” and compared the power

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1.
 Stage 1 report on the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill

Report Mar. 18 2024

Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: She referred to section 4(2) as “a specific power for a very specific purpose” and compared the power

Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) The repeal of this abominable legislation is long overdue and all credit is due to the Government. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As many noble Lords may know, 40 years ago Parliament passed an incredibly specific piece of legislation - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) I am not putting forward a specific view here. - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) been raised about, for example, its ability to cope in relation to its regulatory approach to the new breed - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) The Government consulted on repeal in 2016. - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Subordinate Legislation - Wed 21 Feb 2024

Mentions:
1: None Lots of concerns have been raised around any moves on breed-specific legislation, which continues to - Speech Link
2: None However, I cannot give a specific date for when they will be laid, because, ultimately, the minister - Speech Link
3: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) Yesterday, I had discussions with Police Scotland on that specific issue. - Speech Link
4: Grahame, Christine (SNP - Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) Labour committee members are—on the fact that if Labour were to get in at Westminster, it might repeal - Speech Link

Select Committee
All Published Written Evidence
 WAFFU0085 - Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up (2023)

Written Evidence Dec. 15 2023

Inquiry: Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: needed of the mental health consequences and unmet needs of veterans serving both before and after the repeal

Select Committee
All Published Written Evidence
 WAFFU0085 - Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up (2023)

Written Evidence Dec. 15 2023

Inquiry: Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: of the mental health consequences and unmet needs of veterans serving both before and after the repeal

Westminster Hall
Legislation on Dangerous Dogs - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) Urgent action is clearly needed, but breed-specific legislation is not the answer. - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) His work with dogs includes advising on the reform of the Dangerous Dogs Act—particularly the flawed breed-specific - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) they have a certificate of exemption.We recognise the strength of feeling on breed-specific legislation - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Through this Bill we are fulfilling our manifesto pledge to repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) We are increasingly seeing a new breed of owners with little interest in the long-term interest of their - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) It is interesting that the politicians and the newspapers that have reported on the repeal of Section - Speech Link
4: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) I will raise two specific points. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I too congratulate the Government on the proposed repeal of Section 40 in the Media Bill. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) continued push for more criminalisation to replace the Vagrancy Act 1824, which your Lordships voted to repeal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes.We need to repeal - Speech Link
3: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) certain similarities with what is happening in London.A few years ago, San Francisco’s mayor, Mrs London Breed - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) people a roof over their head and support to tackle their complex needs—yet we are still waiting for the repeal - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) such as the specific offence of assaulting a retail worker. - Speech Link

Select Committee
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral Evidence Oct. 24 2023

Inquiry: Work of Defra
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Some tenancy agreements are subject to—sorry, I cannot remember the specific name of the legislation