Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill

I would have thought the hon. Lady would welcome the fact that we are able to legislate. For so m...

I thank the Secretary of State for chatting to me earlier. The export of live animals somewhat su...

My hon. Friend raises an important point. The Government have committed £4 million of additional ...

I warmly thank my right hon. Friend for his kind comments about my long-term involvement. It is g...

I drew attention to my right hon. Friend’s long campaigning, and I will return, if I may, to the ...

I thank the Secretary of State for making the point that, from 2021, there have been no further e...

My hon. Friend characteristically raises a pertinent point, which I will address. He is right to ...

I warmly welcome the Bill, on which the Department has been working for some time. This measure w...

My right hon. Friend raises an extremely important point. In large measure, that international le...

rose—

Before updating the House on that important point, I will, of course, give way.

I thank the Secretary of State and, as I have not had the opportunity to do this yet, wish him we...

I could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman that farmers care passionately for the welfare of ...

The Minister has identified a point of great resentment to people in Northern Ireland who are con...

It is because the Bill ensures that farmers in Northern Ireland have unfettered access to the UK ...

If you will allow me, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to start by paying tribute to my right hon....

I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention, but I am not sure that it is relevant to what w...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I particularly commend her point about foxhunting a...

My hon. Friend must have read my speech and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Dani...

As a Back Bencher who served on the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee, the biggest pro...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue; I look forward to that discussion in Committee...

The hon. Lady is talking about the Labour party promoting animal health and welfare. How does she...

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for his interest, knowledge and expertise in this area, but t...

It is a huge pleasure to speak in the debate. We have been waiting for this Bill, which was one o...

While the Labour party talks a good game on animal welfare, does my right hon. Friend agree that ...

I totally agree with my hon. Friend. However, I do think that we should be open about this. Anima...

Let me try to take the partisan element out of this. Our great friend Sir David Amess, who was a ...

Of course I agree with my right hon. Friend. Indeed, I am standing in front of the shield of my f...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

6.41 pm

This Second Reading debate on the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill is not simply another o...

I declare a personal and professional interest as a veterinary surgeon.

I very much welcome...

As my hon. Friend has mentioned pigs twice, another area where we would like the Government to mo...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention.

On horses, I welcome the comments of th...

I am happy to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Dr Hu...

I think we should acknowledge at the outset, Mr Deputy Speaker, the work that you did before you ...

I call Jim Shannon.

7.11 pm

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. You just threw me off there—I was expecting to jump up and then sit...

I warmly welcome the Bill as further evidence of the Conservative commitment to improving standar...

Although I very much welcome the return of this Bill, I wish it had not been an afterthought. I w...

Does the hon. Member want to give us a single example of a regulation this Government have introd...

I will not at this stage—I will carry on with what I am saying—but of course lots of funding has ...

It gives me great pleasure to speak in support of this wonderful Bill. Its Second Reading is huge...

I cannot speak in this debate without starting by talking about my amazing predecessor, who campa...

I am not going to congratulate the Minister on bringing forward this Bill, first because we shoul...

I suspect the House would thank neither me nor the right hon. Gentleman if we tried to embark on ...

If the Government did that, I would eat the words with which I started my speech and I would cong...

The first thing I want to do is thank my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Anna Firth). S...

It is delicious.

It is.

There was relaxing zen spa music playing in the calving shed. I said, “Is that for t...

I call the shadow Minister.

7.58 pm

It is a pleasure to respond to tonight’s debate, not least because we are graced with no fewer th...

My hon. Friend makes a good point about measures in the kept animals Bill. Several other measures...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who hits the nail on the head. The Government are so timorous an...

The shadow Minister mentioned the Conservative party’s 2019 general election manifesto. My predec...

Absolutely. Of course, Labour Front-Bench Members made that point repeatedly, as did the hon. Mem...

May I first draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interest...

As the Minister knows, I have always had a lot of time for him, so I shall not press him on the W...

I am always delighted to meet my hon. Friends. Should my diary allow, I am sure we can find a slo...

rose—

I thought I had got away with it, but I will give way.

I thank the Minister. I hope that he was not coming to a conclusion, but was about to address the...

I commit to continuing this conversation with the right hon. Gentleman beyond the Chamber. I shou...

rose—

I will take one more intervention, and then I will conclude.

The Minister is very kind. One thing he probably did not hear me mention was foie gras. He has no...

The danger of mentioning colleagues by constituencies is that, occasionally, I miss one out. I ap...