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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I gently reflect that, in the modern information age, that is sometimes more challenging for those of us who grew up on a diet of three channels on black and white TV. I am sorry…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Listening to his comments, I realise that I am in danger of stigmatising younger people. I do not think it is their fault at all. It is partly…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)Without re-rehearsing the previous discussion, we would have liked the clause to be strengthened, but our amendment has been rejected, so let us go forward. Question put and…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am disappointed by the Minister’s response, because I thought that the evidence we were given was pretty overwhelming. I think the concern that a number of people have expressed…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 89, in clause 39, page 23, line 12, at beginning insert “where keeping a dog on a lead of 1.8 metres or less would pose a risk of harm to the person in…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister. I think that is a sensible compromise, and I am very tempted by her offer, but on something as totemic as this I am afraid that we still have to…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 90, in clause 39, page 23, line 9, leave out “or a pack of hounds”. This amendment would remove the exemption for working packs of hounds from provisions…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister. That is reassuring. I am thinking about my old college, King’s, and the cows grazing outside it. I certainly would not want to see them being…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I found the clause slightly puzzling. I am not entirely sure what it means, as usual. Maybe the Minister will be able to elucidate. I am not sure whether it is referring to land…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am sure the Minister has heard the strong words from her own side.16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)This is becoming a fascinating exchange. What is being done here is the putting in place of a range of measures, whether that is control orders, disqualification orders or…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)There is a serious point here, which is that there seem to be some exceptions being made that relate to certain land, possibly even to certain animals. I am not entirely sure why…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful. It was clause 41—I am sure we are not expected to commit these things to memory. I was aware of that, but I am still not entirely clear whether all the existing…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)That is a helpful explanation, but only up to a point. I am left concluding that the Government seem not to be taking away the existing legislation and necessarily improving it,…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I apologise for my lack of detailed knowledge about the complex interrelationship between existing laws and the new proposals. I suppose what I am trying to get at is the problem…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)We are working here with a series of proposals to deal with these very difficult cases. No one wants to see a dog destroyed. My question is about whether any work has been done to…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am afraid I will be making the same point consistently on these clauses. I am glad to hear that the measures were developed in consultation with the police, but I suspect that…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)We have come to a series of clauses that get into the detail of how we address this issue in the new world. We have no objection to much of the detail, but as I said earlier, we…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I repeat what I said earlier: we do not think that people should be passing, keeping or transferring these creatures. We just think they should not be kept. Question put and…16 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for her explanation. To go back to points I made earlier, we seem to be designing a licensing system for a relatively small number of cases and then,…16 Nov 2021