VoteClimate: Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill - 15th January 2024

Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill - 15th January 2024

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-15/debates/C3CADE59-E8E9-4644-9E28-FE6EBB20D958/AnimalWelfare(LivestockExports)Bill

18:15 The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr Nigel Evans)

I do not want to hold up the debate for too long, so I will conclude. As my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West said, the Labour party is the party of animal welfare—that is a strong priority for Labour. We have long called for a ban on live export for slaughter. Every year, millions of farm animals are at risk of facing long-distance journeys, including the new animals that we have tabled amendments to cover. Amendment 5 aims to future-proof the Bill. Particularly as the climate changes, farming will change, and we need to be able to evolve and update the legislation as practices change. I support amendments 2, 3, 4 and 5, which stand in the name of my hon. Friend, and I hope to see the Bill go much further.

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