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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Third sitting)We have worked closely with the Welsh Government to ensure that the protections that this Bill provides to primates in England can be extended to Wales.16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q I will move to Simon. Do you feel that the zoo standards have been drafted in consultation with the experts on your committee? Dr Girling: Yes, I genuinely do believe that that…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q 52 Thank you very much for coming to give evidence to us. Minette, may I start with your views, and those of your members, on the live export provisions generally? Minette…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you; that is very helpful. Jo, how do you feel about the arguments about a blanket ban versus a licensing system? Dr Judge: We would also support a licensing system. I…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Yes, the Bill refers to the British Isles. What is your view, and your experiences and those of your members, on the problem with livestock worrying, particularly over the last…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q But in terms of the actual live export provisions, your members can live with them as they are. You have no specific comments to make. Minette Batters: I think there is a case…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q You clearly have a wealth of experience in caring for primates. Do you feel we have tapped that experience to inform the new zoo standards? Has your voice been heard? Dr Cronin:…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Are you concerned that if there were to be an outright ban, you would have more pieces to pick up? Dr Cronin: Any form of this legislation will cause an increase in the numbers…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. Do you feel that it is a good move to absorb the conservation standards within the other zoo standards? Dr Girling: The conservation standards have not so much been…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Would you have exemptions for a farmer’s dog or a sheep dog? Minette Batters: If that were needed for clarity, it would be quite easy to facilitate. It would be in the farmer’s…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q On that last point, do you feel the enhanced police powers in the Bill will help prosecute such offences? Rob Taylor: Yes, and I say that with some authority as we have worked…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Rob, do you support the measures in the Bill on livestock worrying—or attacking, as Minette would remind us we should call it? Rob Taylor: Very much so. This has been a long…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Hello, Hazel. Thank you very much for giving evidence to us. I have only one question for you. We have heard today that livestock worrying and attacks have been a particular…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Peter, I know you have campaigned for many years on live exports. What are your views on that part of the Bill? Peter Stevenson: Yes, Compassion in World Farming is pleased that…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q You will have seen that the Bill expands the definition of “livestock.” Is that something you feel strongly about? Minette Batters: I think it needs to be like that to cover…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Mike, for coming to give evidence. We have been touching on the same issues repeatedly. You have probably been following our proceedings, so without a great preamble…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q I think the concern today has centred on dog owners travelling together legitimately—a person with two dogs travelling with another person with two dogs. Mike Webb: It is a…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Can you give us any examples from your experience? Rob Quest: We get some of the same problems that you have with puppies—false paperwork, fake vaccine certificates and so…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Moving on to the pet travel rules, where do you stand on putting in an exemption to include rescue dogs? Rob Quest: Wearing my hat as chairman of the CFSG, and with my local…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you agree that there should be no exemption for rescue dogs? Mike Webb: Yes, given the loophole that was expressed earlier. We run an academy at Battersea that is focused…09 Nov 2021