Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 28 standing in my name. This is a similar amendment to the one ...

My Lords, Amendment 45 in my name is in this group. I have listened to crocodiles and in the next...

My Lords, I echo the point of the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, about biosecurity. The implications...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for making that point, which is incredibly important, part...

I am grateful to noble Lords for the opportunity to discuss and explain the interaction of the Bi...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part, particularly to the noble Lord, L...

Moved by

Lord Benyon

36: Clause 3, page 2, line 21, at end insert—

“(3) The fol...

Moved by

Lord Benyon

39: Clause 5, page 2, line 32, at end insert—

“(b) any cep...

I am grateful to your Lordships for your forbearance, and for your views and insights on this imp...

My Lords, it is with some regret that I note that my noble friend at the Dispatch Box did not tha...

My Lords, I have been up, and indeed in, many African rivers, but not the Zambezi, like the noble...

My Lords, my noble friend may not like it but I will support him—I hope he appreciates that—becau...

My Lords, I am a bit perplexed by all this. The Government have decided to include lobsters and o...

My Lords, with this amendment we move on to Clause 5. It rather intrigues me, because it makes an...

Noble Lords will not be surprised that I am absolutely delighted that the Government have tabled ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for those remarks. I think it might be helpful to the House i...

I note what my noble friend says about there being no plans—and I fully accept that that is so, a...

I hope I can reassure my noble friend by saying that if the Secretary of State were to use his or...

Moved by

Lord Benyon

43: Clause 5, page 2, line 35, at end insert “, where they are n...

Moved by

Lord Robathan

46: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Ex...

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Howard of Rising, who is unavoidably detained somewhe...

I support my noble friend Lord Robathan. In anybody’s language, this is an extremely controversia...

My Lords, as we have heard, this amendment sets a sunset clause on the Bill. Sunset clauses are q...

I thank my noble friend Lord Robathan for introducing Amendment 46 in the name of my noble friend...

Before my noble friend sits down, does she not feel that a sunset clause might in fact be to the ...

I do not agree with my noble friend, because the committee’s work will be ongoing, and it will al...

My Lords, if I might say, I agree entirely with my noble friend Lord Hamilton, because it is not ...

Moved by

The Earl of Caithness

47: Clause 6, page 3, line 5, at end insert—

“(3...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 47. This is the last amendment to be debated and I call it the ...

My Lords, this seems quite novel as an amendment—to try, once a Bill has gone through Parliament ...

My Lords, I agree; I too hold the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, in the greatest respect and the hig...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, and I congratulate her on hers, too—and I thank her for...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister not only for his reply but for the backbone that h...