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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Mullin. The answering member was Jim Fitzpatrick.

Farm Animal Welfare

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on public procurement and farm animal welfare.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
498 c203-19WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Chris Mullin | 498 c204-5WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am in general agreement with the hon. Gentleman on that. However, price is not the only consi...
Andrew Murrison | 498 c204WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that price has to be important, because we are talking about public bo...
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Chris Mullin | 498 c204WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree. I will touch on some of those points later.
David Leslie Taylor | 498 c204WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is focusing on egg production, but chicken meat and other areas are just as important...
Chris Mullin | 498 c203-4WH (Link to this contribution) I intend to highlight the importance of public sector food procurement and the role it has to play i...
Chris Mullin | 498 c205WH (Link to this contribution) It certainly is because, as we know, McDonald's is ruthlessly moved by the power of the market, and ...
Tim Farron | 498 c208-9WH (Link to this contribution) Yes. One measure of a civilised society is how we treat our fellow animals. What I am concerned abou...
Tim Farron | 498 c207WH (Link to this contribution) I am on early, but I probably will not keep my speech going for 40 minutes. In fact, you would not b...
David Leslie Taylor | 498 c208WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to point to the scale of the concerns with which we are dealing. Is he a...
Tim Farron | 498 c208WH (Link to this contribution) I concur with the comment from stage right; I will not be long at all. It is a great pleasure to se...
Chris Mullin | 498 c206-7WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that, and I touched on it in my response to the hon. Member for Westbury (Dr. Mu...
David Drew | 498 c205WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that part of the problem is that the EU has dragged its feet and that, to...
Chris Mullin | 498 c207WH (Link to this contribution) Yes. That is a reasonable, desirable and achievable goal, given the necessary political will. More ...
David Leslie Taylor | 498 c207WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend pick up an idea that many of us on the Select Committee on Environment, Food and...
Roger Williams | 498 c205WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the market driving improvements in animal welfare,...
James Paice | 498 c211-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to accept that it may have been one of the reasons why the EU was eventually persuaded to...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 498 c215-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr. Key. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sund...
Chris Mullin | 498 c217WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful case for the direction of travel that the Government have taken over...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 498 c217WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an entirely valid point. I know that his position is that we should travel down...
Mark Williams | 498 c209WH (Link to this contribution) Does that not go to the heart of the matter? The new draft standards for the Government's healthier ...
Tim Farron | 498 c209-10WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point and it leads us on to what we need to do to...
James Paice | 498 c210-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am slightly disappointed that there has not been more interest in the debate from hon. Members on ...
Chris Mullin | 498 c211WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a perfectly reasonable point, but I urge him not to be too hard on the ...
Tim Farron | 498 c209WH (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. My hon. Friend raises a range of issues, one of which I shall come to in a...
Roger Williams | 498 c209WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making very important points. Egg producers in this country often complain that eg...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 498 c219WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. In the exercise that I am conducting with other Ministers and...
James Paice | 498 c219WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for what he has said. He is right that there is an issue with buyers being resp...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 498 c217-9WH (Link to this contribution) I did not mean to speed over points deliberately, or not to pay them appropriate attention. Like oth...
Chris Mullin | 498 c217WH (Link to this contribution) Is not the evidence so far that voluntary measures do not really work? I mentioned the fact that, so...
Subjects
Contracts Animal welfare Food Poultry Livestock Procurement Livestock industry Standards Supermarkets
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