Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]

Thank you, my Lords. I should like to speak to Amendment 3 in my name and Amendment 16 in the nam...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register of the House, particularly those in r...

My Lords, I have tabled three amendments in this group. The first is Amendment 19, supported by t...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in the group. Amendments 24 and 30 both probe why “all” i...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Royal Veterinary College and speak to Amendment 4...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 24 and 30 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Risi...

I support many of the amendments in this group but will speak specifically to Amendment 3 in the ...

I remind the Committee of my interests, as set out in the register. My name is down to Amendment ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 15, 39 and 45 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayma...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Mancroft, has withdrawn, so I call the next speaker, the noble Lor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to raise a few points. I am a little confused by comments from my nobl...

The noble Baroness, Lady Gale, has withdrawn, so I call the next speaker, the noble and learned L...

I am speaking to Amendment 31 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, to which I...

My Lords, I hope my noble friend the Minister will give us a full and detailed reply, because the...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendments 19 and 31, beginning with Amendment 19. We must ensure...

My Lords, I shall start by speaking to Amendment 19 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Moylan ...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendments 15, 39 and 45 in my name and that of the noble Baroness, La...

I thank noble Lords for their interest in the Bill. I feel as if I were sailing a path between Sc...

My Lords, I have received requests to speak after the Minister from five noble Lords. First, I ca...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Committee for allowing me to speak, and to the Minister. I at...

On that point, I just point out to Members of the Committee that speeches after the Minister are ...

I am grateful to my noble friend. I will write to him about the committee’s make-up and remit and...

My Lords, I declare my interest with various positions in the Countryside Alliance.

I would...

My Lords, I would never have the temerity to say that anything was perfect in this world, and leg...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister for the very interesting speech he has just made; I can...

I can assure the noble Earl that I am open to discussions on any area of the Bill where I feel we...

My Lords, I agree with my noble friend Lord Marland that the Government are beginning to alienate...

I am grateful to my noble friend and absolutely defer to him as someone with long experience of l...

I will just comment on Amendment 19 and, I hope, give some assurance. Many noble Lords have comme...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that clarity and entirely endorse what he says.

I am very grateful to my noble friend the Minister for responding to my remarks on Amendment 1, w...

My Lords, we will have a five-minute adjournment of the Committee.

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Moved by

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, at end insert—

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My Lords, I first apologise for not being here for the earlier debate because I had to chair the ...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. I usually disagree very strongly with al...

I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, and I support my noble friend Lord Forsyth in his de...

My Lords, this is a very important group of amendments, which seeks in some cases to dictate whic...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s Amendment 2 addresses the likely conflict between the pr...

My Lords, my name is to Amendment 40 and I support Amendments 2 and 11 in this group. I was a lit...

I will speak to Amendments 2 and 11, both in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, although I...

My Lords, I shall be brief. By and large, the Government have got this reasonably okay. I can und...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Forsyth may be slightly surprised, given my interest in animal wel...

My Lords, I should like to comment on Amendments 11 and 14. I agree in principle with what has be...

My Lords, I support the amendments put forward by my noble friend Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, which...

I shall speak first to Amendments 5 and 14, which are in my name and that of the noble Baroness, ...

I thank noble Lords for their amendments and hope to provide some reassurance and clarity. I star...

I have received three requests to speak after the Minister, from the noble Lords, Lord Hannan of ...

My Lords, this is the first time that I have intervened in the Committee stage of a Bill so I hop...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for his sympathy, though I wish my noble friends would stop...

Before I call the next person, I gently remind noble Lords that the practice in Committee and on ...

My Lords, I have a request for clarification from the Minister. I listened carefully to the Chanc...

I said, with what I thought was clear reasoning, which has been backed up by others, why these tw...

I would call the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, but we have a problem with her—but a person put his ...

My Lords, I listened with care to what my noble friend said, and I apologise to him if I did not ...

The noble Earl refers to the LSE report on decapods and cephalopods, I assume.

I refer to the one that was commissioned from the LSE, to which the noble Lord, Lord Trees, refer...

I think we are coming to that in a later group of amendments. It has been completed but not peer ...

We will make one more attempt to call the noble Baroness, Lady Deech. No, it is not working. I ca...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Fookes, although slightly surprised that she...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 4. I advise the Committee that if Amendment 4 i...

Moved by

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 5, leave out subsections ...

My Lords, tempted as I am to make all the same arguments about why we need details of how the com...

My Lords, there are two amendments in this group with my name on them. The first is Amendment 8, ...

I am delighted to follow my noble friend. There is some coalition of thought behind his Amendment...

My Lords, I was going to speak in favour of Amendment 10, particularly relating to the appointmen...

The noble Lord, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, has withdrawn from this group, so I call the next speaker...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 8. Very briefly, the reason for this, as has been said by my...

My Lords, I shall be brief and wish to ask for further reassurance from the Minister. I totally u...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Rising.

I am sorry but I thought I had withdrawn from this group of amendments.

In that case I call the noble Lord, Lord Carrington.

My Lords, I declare my interests as a farmer, as set out in the register. My remarks on the Bill ...

The amendments in this small group look particularly at the make-up of the committee’s membership...

The noble Baroness very eloquently makes the point I was going to make. I have clearly had repres...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Robathan.