Leaving the EU: Live Farm Animal Exports

My hon. Friend pre-empts a point that I will make later. We need to differentiate between animals...

We may not be able to legislate before we leave the European Union, but we could certainly sugges...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, and we should certainly consider that. If, for any reason, our...

If the hon. Gentleman accepts, as I think he does, that transporting live animals for long period...

From researching the issue and speaking to many people in the industry about it, I think the real...

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the matter is currently regulated by EC Regulation No. 1/20...

There are genuine concerns. A lot of documented and anecdotal evidence suggests that the existing...

Surely it is not just about the conditions—grim though they may be—in which animals are transport...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. The petition calls for a ban on the export of live animals, bu...

My hon. Friend’s mention of choppy waters brings me to my feet. The right hon. Member for Orkney ...

My hon. Friend makes a good point about the local situation in the UK, which has a very well deve...

It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Wilson. I thank the Petitions Committee for a...

I believe that in 1992 it was a Conservative Government who sought to impose import restrictions,...

I am talking about 2012, which is far more recent than that, and as I said the Government went al...

The hon. Lady is making a very good speech and I just want to add one more point. I believe that ...

As is often the case—perhaps not on the wider Brexit issue, but on this specific issue— I totally...

I have spoken about livestock moving the significant distances between the islands, from Orkney a...

I cannot comment on the standard, seeing as I have never looked into it, but I am happy to take t...

Once we leave the EU, we will completely lose control over the welfare standards of any animals t...

If the hon. Gentleman wants to argue for not having live exports across the border from the north...

The difficulty with the hon. Lady’s argument is that we either ban exports or we do not. A ban is...

If the right hon. Gentleman is arguing that we need a hard border with Ireland, which will then p...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) on his introdu...

I have always understood it that if animals are worried or hugely concerned, it has a direct impa...

My hon. Friend, as ever, has hit the nail on the head. He is absolutely right. Government figures...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend that it is preferable to move all meat on the hook rather ...

I understand what my hon. Friend is saying. There are a number of Scottish Members here. I am not...

I am on my hon. Friend’s side.

Yes. The RSPCA is lobbying for a maximum journey time of eight hours for all animals travelling f...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about leaving the EU, but he is not right about our standards....

I am not going to fall out with my hon. Friend on this issue, particularly as he is a tropical fi...

I am pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess), who I think...

The hon. Gentleman has just said that I said there were not any rules, but I said nothing of the ...

I thought the hon. Lady said that we tried to object to the eight-hour limit in the European Unio...

That is an overall limit.

I have given the matter a great deal of thought and it occurs to me that we should not ban live e...

I think my hon. Friend has missed the entire point of the debate. The point is not that animals s...

I hate to disagree with my hon. Friend, but if he reads the petition, he will see that it states:...

Does my hon. Friend think it is possible to transport in a civilised manner very young calves fro...

At the moment we have got the worst possible case where the roll-on/roll-off ferries will not tak...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way again. Surely if one were even to come close to applying th...

It is far better to achieve a ban by making it economically difficult because the standards are s...

In my ten-minute rule Bill, I proposed an exemption for north-south exports on the island of Irel...

It did not stop horsemeat getting into our supermarkets either, and that is the problem. Once we ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend; he is being very generous. He just said that once the animals le...

Unfortunately for my hon. Friend, that will not be possible, because we are not proposing an expo...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson. I would hazard a guess that, unusua...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course—I am surprised that the hon. Lady has waited so long.

I did get an invite to that event— I think I was actually speaking at something else that afterno...

I am sorry if there was anything in the invitation that put the hon. Lady off, but it was very mu...

Economic pressure is a far better way of achieving what my hon. Friend wants than legislative pre...

My hon. Friend made his points very well during his speech, and I was very pleased to hear them.<...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson.

Animal cruelty always raises p...

I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson, and to take part in a debate on such ...

Does the right hon. Lady accept that that is a matter for the devolved Scottish Government, and n...

Actually, the question I am posing to the Minister is about whether it is a reserved matter. Whet...

I have listened to the debate intensely, but I still have not got an answer on the issue of a tra...

There are still risks that the rules we put in place will not be enforced, but that is a reason t...

My concern is that if the price of sheep went up significantly in France, anybody who wanted to c...

I do not accept that that would be a consequence. It is possible to put together a legal formulat...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) on introducing...

I am a crofter who sells lambs every autumn because I run out of grazing. We have a slaughterhous...

The hon. Gentleman has greater expertise in this narrow field than me, particularly since he farm...

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair, Mr Hollobone. May I place on the record my gratitud...

If I accept the idea of cruise liner facilities being offered for cattle shipped from the islands...

The hon. Gentleman’s question prompts another question: what control is there to be within our do...

There is one other alternative. In that scenario, if we allowed live exports to continue, any ani...

If the objection is to sea transportation, it strikes me as slightly ironic that one possible con...

We come to the Front-Bench speeches, after which Steve Double will have a few minutes to sum up t...

It is a pleasure, as always, to see you in the Chair, Mr Hollobone. I commend the hon. Member for...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I also want to echo the point made by the right hon. ...

It may benefit the House to know that my wife is from Na h-Eileanan an Iar—perhaps the second bes...

One of the potential consequences of a ban, if Her Majesty’s Scottish Government do not invoke su...

Without straying into the territory of ram prices, which is not something we routinely discuss in...

I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, as I was to serve under that of Mr...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) on opening the...

I am grateful that the Minister has allowed me to intervene, because that point was also made ear...

We hear of all sorts of different positions on this issue from the Opposition at the moment. I si...

Surely that is one of the low-hanging fruit, and something that we could look into improving in o...

Enforcement is an important issue, but I would say that in that case we do have, as I said, 100% ...

I thank all right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions to this lively and informative de...