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HANSARDAnimal 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 Can I end by asking: lead or no lead, in your view? Rob Taylor: It is an interesting question. I would say lead in certain circumstances. If someone is in a field with cattle,…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Thank you.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 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 Lovely. I will move straight on, then. Do you also approve of the export ban for fattening and slaughter, and are you happy with that area of the Bill? Justine Shotton: We feel…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Hello, Justine. Thank you very much for giving evidence to us. Do you support the livestock worrying provisions in the Bill, and specifically the expansion of the definition of…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Great. A lot of that is not dealt with in the Bill, which deals specifically with live exports, but is dealt with elsewhere. Justine Shotton: Yes, and we are very happy to…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Absolutely. Have you been fully sighted on the consultation on animal transport generally? Justine Shotton: Yes.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, can you give us your views on whether cats should be included in any conversations about theft? What sort of values are you seeing for cats that are stolen at the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q You can still go to a dog show—you would be part of the exemption—but someone travelling with a pair of dogs, with a friend who has their pair of dogs, would be caught by the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you very much; that is really helpful evidence. Can we move on to puppy smuggling, or dog smuggling generally? I will also ask Paula this question in a minute; we have…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Yes, that is one of the reasons that we are taking regulation-making powers in the Bill: so that we can adjust our regulatory mechanism to cope with the changing world of puppy…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Paula, would you like to come in on that? Paula Boyden: We have not done any work on that specific issue, but I can repeat the statistics that we have. A paper published back in…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Hello. I am the Minister taking the Bill through. It is good to have you here. Could you start by giving us your views of the Bill, in general? David Bowles: In general, we are…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you all very much for coming to give evidence; it is great to meet you. I will start with Alison and focus on primates to begin with. I do not know whether you heard the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q For what it is worth, I can give you the assurance that there will certainly be a consultation starting shortly. I believe you have been involved in some of the discussions…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)I come from a farming family.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q Are there differences of opinion within the Dogs Trust on the lead issue? Paula Boyden: Not within a specific enclosure. Obviously, we have things like common land, and that is…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q So you would be more happy with three per vehicle than with five. Justine Shotton: To some extent, the numbers are relatively arbitrary, but overall we feel a reduction is…09 Nov 2021