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HANSARDPet Abduction BillI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He is absolutely right; the proof of the pudding will be in the enforcement of the Bill. The police need to now know that there will…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillMy hon. Friend has been a champion for cats, the ragdoll breed in particular—what an absolutely beautiful breed it is. I can assure her that clause 2, which deals with cats, will…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal for tabling this amendment. I particularly thank her for her expertise, which has been of great value to me in bringing…31 Jan 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillI will go back to where I began and thank all right hon. and hon. Members for attending the Committee and for their support. We have great champions of animal welfare in…31 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsT2. Very welcome remediation work on reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete—RAAC—is now under way at Kingsdown School in Leigh-on-Sea, meaning that parts of the school will be…29 Jan 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseAt my most recent constituency surgery, I had the pleasure of meeting Southend’s outgoing Member of the Youth Parliament, the amazing Madi Faulkner-Hatt. Madi raised with me the…25 Jan 2024HANSARD Funded ChildcareI welcome the Minister’s statement, and working parents across my constituency welcome this expansion and the biggest ever investment in childcare in England. Today, however, I…22 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI am almost certain that it does, but I will have to refer to my notes to be precise. Perhaps I could come back to my hon. Friend on that, but it extends wider than ownership. It…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillIt is unbelievable, isn’t it? Incredibly, two of the cats later reappeared in Leigh-on-Sea.19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillMy hon. Friend raises a very important and interesting point, which we could discuss because there are already obligations on the statute book, as he knows. I will come on to deal…19 Jan 2024HANSARDBuilding Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) BillI am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his intervention. Nationwide does so much in all constituencies where there is a branch. My Nationwide in Leigh-on-Sea has a…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Britain is a nation of animal lovers. Our pets are part of our families. They comfort us when we are down and give us a…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI thank my right hon. Friend for making an important point. The two offences are slightly different. The offence of dog abduction will be the taking and detaining of a dog,…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillDidn’t he do well.19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI can absolutely assure my right hon. Friend that it is specifically stated in the Bill that it is a defence that a person is picking up stray animals, or is involving themselves…19 Jan 2024HANSARDBuilding Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) BillI will keep my comments brief, not least because we have had so many learned and expert speeches, particularly from my hon. Friends the Members for Dover (Mrs Elphicke) and for…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI thank the hon. Member for her excellent point—in fact, there is another excellent private Member’s Bill on that topic further down the list today. She is absolutely right: we do…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillI share my hon. Friend’s interest in that area. Of course, those are questions that I have asked myself, and I think the answer is twofold. First, the police will have to assign a…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillWe digress. Debbie Matthews founded SAMPA—the Stolen and Missing Pets Alliance—after having a very similar experience, when her two dogs were stolen from a supermarket, as did…19 Jan 2024HANSARD Pet Abduction BillWith the leave of the House, I thank all hon. Members on all sides of the House for coming to this debate. We had a fantastic debate in which we all recognised the importance of…19 Jan 2024