Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]

My Lords, Amendments 12, 14 and 16 in this group are in my name. However, I will first support Am...

My Lords, in Committee a lot of us argued very strongly for several amendments, and one of course...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness and see her so loyally supporting my Gove...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group but, before I turn to them, I congratulate my noble...

My Lords, following Committee, in which I took part, this Bill has not really changed at all. As ...

My Lords, I echo my noble friend Lord Robathan’s remarks. I think this a perfectly terrible Bill,...

My Lords, I profoundly disagree with the two previous speakers, and I have no wish to be associat...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, although I do not enti...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow my noble friend. I thank my noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsec...

You have never read it anyway.

I did—my noble friend teases me, but I did. I did not always agree with every single item in ever...

I add for the benefit of my noble friend that the Conservative Party manifesto for the last elect...

I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Moylan for that remark.

I am going to go on and ...

My Lords, these amendments broadly consider the remit of the committee regarding policy. Clause 1...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Trees, the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, and my...

Before my noble friend sits down, could he answer the remark of the noble Lord, Lord Trees, that ...

It does not go way beyond Article 13, but it does create a committee that did not exist. There we...

Is not the noble Lord, Lord Trees, one of the most eminent and respected veterinary surgeons in o...

My noble friend is absolutely right. I have listened to the noble Lord, Lord Trees, a lot in my f...

Perhaps I may press my noble friend, because I did not follow what he said about retrospectivity—...

I am grateful to my noble friend. I will not detain the House by repeating the paragraphs I have ...

My Lords, I thank everybody who has contributed to this short debate, and I thank the Minister fo...