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HANSARDGovernment Support for the RSPCAI shall always listen to my hon. Friend’s exhortations to be bold. Watch this space in the coming few months. Finally on wildlife, significant sanctions are available to judges…09 Oct 2024HANSARDGovernment Support for the RSPCAI disagree with the hon. Member’s assumption that animal welfare standards are lower in larger-scale production facilities; that is a false premise. I urge him to look at some of…09 Oct 2024HANSARDGovernment Support for the RSPCAIt is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Twigg. I join in the congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West and Islwyn (Ruth Jones)—and she is…09 Oct 2024HANSARDGovernment Support for the RSPCAI absolutely agree with the hon. Member. It is important to make the point that of course all our farmers want to raise their animals to the highest possible standards, but they…09 Oct 2024HANSARD Farming and Food SecurityI am grateful to have the opportunity to close the debate. The hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) spoke for so long that it will not be possible to answer many of…08 Oct 2024HANSARD Sheep FarmingIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dr Huq, and to follow the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore). I am sure that a number of us will…04 Sept 2024HANSARD Food SecurityThat is under consideration, and we will come back to that in due course. I note that, where appropriate, solar projects can be designed to enable continued livestock grazing.…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityThe right hon. Member tempts me into a level of detail that I am afraid I am not prepared to go into this evening. We are examining all these issues and will come to a considered…30 Jul 2024HANSARD Food SecurityThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and it is very good to see you in your place. I thank the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) not only for his…30 Jul 2024HANSARDPlanning, the Green Belt and Rural AffairsYou need to respect the science.19 Jul 2024HANSARDEast West RailThank you, Mr Speaker. Indeed, some are more positive about the improved connectivity potential in and around Cambridge, but the Minister will be aware that his colleagues in the…16 May 2024HANSARD Under-10-Metre Fishing Fleet: South-WestIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Rees. I congratulate the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) on securing this debate, because the inshore…15 May 2024HANSARD Under-10-Metre Fishing Fleet: South-WestI will not, I am afraid, given that I am very pressed for time. It seems there was little consideration across Government as to the timing. On the issues raised about the Plymouth…15 May 2024HANSARDFarmersWhat are the Government doing to support farmers? Quite a few people are asking that. When one looks at the evidence of what is going on, the survey this week from the National…09 May 2024HANSARD Checks on Goods Entering UKWe recognise the need to ensure the UK’s biosecurity, but I echo the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). What a mess. It is 29 April and the…29 Apr 2024HANSARDDogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) BillThe fact that disqualification was brought forward in the kept animals Bill suggests that this Bill was the appropriate place for it.24 Apr 2024HANSARDDogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) BillIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mrs Latham. I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Suffolk Coastal for inviting me to be on the Bill Committee; I very much…24 Apr 2024HANSARDDraft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024It is a particular pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Huq, and it is always a pleasure to see the Minister in her place. I have to say that I was rather expecting to see…24 Apr 2024HANSARDDraft Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Maria. I thank the Minister for his customarily thorough introduction to this substantial and weighty 209-paragraph instrument on an…23 Apr 2024HANSARDPet Abduction BillLet me begin by saying that Labour strongly supports the measures to tackle pet theft and abduction, and I thank the hon. Member for Southend West (Anna Firth) again for…19 Apr 2024