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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q From your experience, how confident can we be that the various authorities charged with enforcement have the resources, training, numbers and skills to do what we expect them…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Should there be visual checks? Rob Quest: You need to have a visual check; otherwise, you will not know whether the animals have been cropped and docked.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q To what extent should the responsibility lie with the carrier? Rob Quest: If they do a visual check, it is easy to tell that a dog has had its ears cropped. It could be a…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Indeed. Would you like to say a little more about what those issues might be? Rob Quest: Resources would be the main one, and the priorities of officials at ports. If the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Thank you very much; that is very helpful.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q In discussions with previous witnesses, the point has begun to be made that the provisions for dogs should probably be extended to cats. Is that your view, too? Justine Shotton:…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, on zoos there is a specific ask to change the term “specialist” to “expert”. Could you explain the thinking behind that? Justine Shotton: Absolutely. The Royal College…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q I will take my lead from the Minister and ask the lead question: on livestock attacks, where do you stand on leads? Mike Webb: Clearly, the Bill is trying to strike a sensible…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q That was a brilliant politician’s answer, if I may say, because I am not entirely sure where you are on leads after that. Never mind; I get the drift. I will move on to the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)As ever, I think that we are good at identifying problems, but solutions are sometimes more difficult. Mike Webb: If I may propose a solution on the imports idea, it seems to me…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)That is very helpful. Thank you very much.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you; that is helpful. I want to explore a slightly different area from the ones that we have explored with other witnesses so far. Do you have any potential solutions for…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Thank you; that is very helpful.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. Thank you for giving us your time and expertise. I will run through things in the order that the Bill covers them, starting with primates. In your written…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q I think there is evidence of some danger of unintended consequences here in some of this. If I can just move on and include Simon. I am slightly troubled by this spectrum of…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q What happens to those animals then? Dr Girling: It depends on the individual collection. They become the responsibility of the local authority in the first instance, because…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)I am not sure whether I feel more sorry for the animals or the local authorities. I will leave it at that.09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q It is a pleasure to be on this Committee. I am really looking forward to it. I think is an interesting and important Bill. Thank you both for giving evidence this morning. Going…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q That is a very fair point. Turning to primates, I think lots of us are slightly puzzled as to who is keeping primates at the moment. It seems we do not really know how many…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (First sitting)Q No, it is fine. I think we are basically agreeing that the number is very small, which means that the other group, those who are not appropriate, is massively larger. The…09 Nov 2021