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Animal Welfare Bill

My Lords, I also spoke on this issue in Committee, when we discussed in depth caught wild birds and primates. While I have sympathy with the ethos behind the amendment, it seems to me that paragraphs (a),(b),(c),(d) and (e) of Clause 9(2) would cover the matter. Surely anybody having to decide on the matter would know very well that a primate’s needs and a parrot’s needs are very different from those of other animals which are normally domesticated. The noble Baroness shakes her head. I shall be interested to hear what the Minister has to say. I still have strong reservations about caught wild birds, which are not dealt with specifically here but, unless the Minister tells me otherwise, I should have thought that paragraphs (a) to (e) covered the matter.