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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list those hunt kennels which the State Veterinary Service found to be unsatisfactory under the BSE enforcement programme in the last six months.

Asked by

Jackie Lawrence (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 May 2001

Reference

368 c302-3W; 160750

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if local authorities have power to introduce byelaws against dog fouling without the prior approval of his Department. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Damian Green (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 April 2001

Reference

367 c78-9W; 158663

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to give additional powers to (a) the Police, (b) local authorities and (c) landowners in order to control dogs in the countryside during the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

Asked by

Phil Sawford (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2001

Reference

156711; 366 c216W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers are available to (a) the Police, (b) local authorities and (c) landowners in order to control dogs in the countryside; and if he will undertake a review of these powers.

Asked by

Phil Sawford (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

28 March 2001

For answer on

4 April 2001

Answered on

4 April 2001

Mr. Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers are available to (a) the Police, (b) local authorities and (c) landowners in order to control dogs in the countryside; and if he will undertake a review of these powers. [156712] Mr. Mike O'Brien: Under section 2 of the Animals Act 1971, where a dog causes damage by killing or injuring livestock, any person who is a keeper of the dog is liable for the damage. If a dog trespasses onto another's land then if the owner allowed the dog to trespass wilfully or to search for game, the owner is liable for any damage to the owner's livestock. Under section 9 of the 1971 Act a landowner or the owner of the livestock or an employee of the landowner or the owner of the livestock has a defence to killing or injuring a dog worrying livestock if either: the dog is worrying or is about to worry the livestock and there are no other reasonable means of ending of preventing the worrying; or the dog has been worrying livestock, has not left the vicinity and is not under the control of any person and there are no practicable means of ascertaining to whom it belongs. The collection and detention of stray dogs is provided for under sections 149-150 of the Environment Protection Act 1990. Animal wardens are authorised officers under the Act and undertake work on behalf of the local authority which is their employer. The police also accept stray dogs when they are brought into police stations. Section 27 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 requires that dogs be kept on a leash on public roads, and local authorities can make byelaws to require that dogs be kept on a leash in certain parks, public gardens and amenity areas. Any dogs in an area infected with foot and mouth disease must be kept under control by their owners. This means that they must either: be kept in a kennel or enclosure from which they cannot escape; or be effectively secured to a fixed object by a collar and chain; or be accompanied by and under the effectual control of the owner or a responsible person authorised by the owner. In an area declared to be infected with foot and mouth disease a dog must not run free; if it does, it can be seized by the local authority or the police and treated as a stray. In addition, a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Inspector may serve a notice on anyone in the infected area to keep a dog under specific controls. Dogs which are kept under proper control are not prevented from being moved. Certain sporting activities involving dogs are not allowed in areas infected with foot and mouth disease. The need for additional powers to deal with foot and mouth is being kept under constant review. This includes the control of dogs in infected areas. There are no plans to review the wider law relating to the control of dogs in the countryside, although the measures in place to combat the spread of foot and mouth disease are being kept under constant review.

Date

4 April 2001

Reference

156712; 366 c215-6W

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Lords committee stage. Clause 1 as amended agreed to. Remaining clauses agreed to. Bill reported with amendment (HL Bill 40 2000/01) and recommitted to a Committee of the Whole House.

Department

Home Office

Type

Committee of the Whole House (HL); Debates on bills

Date

26 March 2001

Reference

624 c12-5,31-90

House

House of Lords

Hunting Bill. As amended in Committee of Whole House (HL).

Member

Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Government bills

Notes

Received 28.03.01

Date

26 March 2001

Reference

HL BILL 40 2000/01

House

House of Lords

HUNTING WITH DOGS

That this House welcomes wholeheartedly the continued support for a ban on hunting with dogs; urges Members of the House of Lords to respect the democratic will of this place and the overwhelming majority of the public in recognising that hunting is cruel and barbaric and has no place in...

Primary sponsor

Lord Stratford (Labour)

Type

Early day motions

Date

23 March 2001

Reference

483

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what grounds exemptions are granted for the use of dogs from non-designated breeders to be used in licensed procedures; what steps are taken to ensure that animal experiments by commercial pet food companies comply with section 5(4) of the...

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 March 2001

For answer on

13 March 2001

Answered on

13 March 2001

Mr. Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) on what grounds exemptions are granted for the use of dogs from non-designated breeders to be used in licensed procedures; [153272] (2) what steps are taken to ensure that animal experiments by commercial pet food companies comply with section 5(4) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; [153275] (3) how many exemptions were granted in (a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000 under section 10(3)(a) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; [153270] (4) if he will make a statement on how his Department monitors the conditions in which dogs are bred and reared in non-designated breeding establishments. [153273] Mr. Mike O'Brien: [holding answer 12 March 2001]: Dogs are primarily used in pharmaceutical research and development, or in pharmaceutical safety and efficacy evaluations. They are also used, when no other species is suitable, in the evaluation of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory problems in humans. Such work contributes to advances in human healthcare. Dogs are also used in the development of veterinary medicines and techniques. The work undertaken by commercial pet food companies is for the purpose of ensuring that food products for pets are safe, effective and nutritionally complete. Most of the procedures conducted are so mild as to not require licensed authority. The procedures which come under licence are very mild. There are pet re-homing schemes in place for animals once tests have been completed. Under the terms of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 dogs and cats can be used only where animals of no other species are suitable. Together with primates and horses, the overall use of these species represented less than 1 per cent. of the total animals used in scientific procedures in 1999. The numbers of exemptions under section 10(3)(a), allowing the use of dogs and cats bred or obtained from non-designated breeding establishments, in the last three years are: 1998: 7 1999: 7 2000: 40 Under section 10(3) of the Act, the non-availability of suitable animals from designated breeders is the only justification for such exemptions. To comply with section 5(4) of the Act, any application to use protected animals in research must be subjected to a detailed cost/benefit assessment by Home Office inspectors. The likely adverse effects on the animals concerned must be weighed against the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the proposed programme of work. Such an assessment is applied to applications made by commercial pet food companies, as to any other. Information about the cost benefit assessment is set out in the paper by the chief inspector published as part of the Animal Procedures Committee annual report for 1997. There is no authority under the 1986 Act to monitor conditions in non-designated breeding establishments.

Date

13 March 2001

Reference

364 c526W; 153272;153275;153270;153273

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Lead member

Lord Bassam of Brighton

Answering member

Lord Cope of Berkeley

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on bills

Date

12 March 2001

Reference

623 c517-680

House

House of Lords

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under which categories his Department's Annual Statistics are recorded (a) palatability trials, (b) digestibility trials, (c) faeces screening studies and (d) other tests carried out by commercial pet food companies; how many dogs from non-designated breeders were used in licensed...

Asked by

Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 March 2001

For answer on

12 March 2001

Answered on

12 March 2001

Mr. Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) under which categories his Department's annual statistics are recorded for (a) palatability trials, (b) digestibility trials, (c) faeces screening studies and (d) other tests carried out by commercial pet food companies; [153274] (2) how many dogs from non-designated breeders were used in licensed procedures at designated scientific establishments in (a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000. [153271] Mr. Mike O'Brien: Dogs are primarily used in pharmaceutical research and development, or in pharmaceutical safety and efficacy evaluations. They are also used, when no other species is suitable, in the evaluation of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory problems in humans. Such work contributes to advances in human health care. Dogs are also used in the development of veterinary medicines and techniques. The work undertaken by commercial pet food companies is for the purpose of ensuring that food products for pets are safe, effective and nutritionally complete. Most of the procedures conducted are so mild as to not require licensed authority. The procedures which come under licence are very mild. There are pet rehoming schemes in place for animals once tests have been completed. If these procedures were not carried out we would be less aware of the risk to household pets. The number of procedures using dogs obtained from non-designated sources in 1998 and 1999 is given in table 2 in the annual publication "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain", copies of which are in the Library. It is not possible to give the actual number of dogs so obtained but it is likely to be close to the number of procedures referred to above. Figures for the year 2000 are not yet available. Not all of the studies referred to in this question would necessarily be regulated procedures, depending on the design of the study. Where they are regulated they would normally be returned as nutrition studies, which are shown in table 5 of the annual publication "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain", copies of which are in the Library. It is not possible to isolate work done by commercial pet food companies from other licencees carrying out research into nutrition.

Date

12 March 2001

Reference

364 c494-5W; 153274;153271

House

House of Commons

Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) Bill (HL) 2000/01;Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996

Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

Lead member

Lord Donoughue

Answering member

Lord Bassam of Brighton

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on bills

Date

9 March 2001

Reference

623 c439-71

House

House of Lords

TRADE IN DOG AND CAT FUR

That this House welcomes the fact that the United States has banned the importation of products made with dog and cat fur; is concerned that this ban means that more of these products may now be imported into the EU and the United Kingdom; is further concerned that consumers may...

Primary sponsor

Ian Cawsey (Labour)

Type

Early day motions

Date

1 March 2001

Reference

390

House

House of Commons

Programme motion, Rep and 3R:Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill.Debate on programme motion (No 4) for remaining stages. Agreed to on division (288 to 175). Report stage. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (319 to 140). Passed.

Lead member

Mike O'Brien

Answering member

David Lidington

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates on bills

Date

27 February 2001

Reference

363 c715-846

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage fourteenth sitting (morning). Schedule 3 as amended under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

13 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage fifteenth sitting (afternoon) (Part 1). Schedule 3 as amended under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

13 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage fifteenth sitting (afternoon) (Part 2). Schedule 3 as amended agreed to. Bill as amended to be reported.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

13 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage thirteenth sitting (afternoon). Programme motion as amended agreed to. Schedule 3 as amended under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

8 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage twelfth sitting (afternoon). Schedule 3 under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

8 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage eleventh sitting (afternoon). Schedule 3 under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

6 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

Hunting Bill 2000/01

Hunting Bill. Committee stage tenth sitting (morning). Schedule 3 under consideration.

Type

Debates on bills; Public Bill Committee proceedings

Date

6 February 2001

Reference

SCB

House

House of Commons

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