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Early Day Motion

EDM 1626
 
ANIMAL WELFARE (No. 2)
13.02.2006


Hancock, Mike

That this House commends the work of Animal Defenders International in collecting video evidence of the abnormal behaviour and suffering of animals in travelling circuses, and notes this shows that travelling circuses cannot adequately provide for the basic welfare needs of their animals and as such fail the welfare test of the Animal Welfare Bill; notes that circus animals spend excessive periods of time shut in transporters, whether travelling or not, are forced to live in temporary facilities lacking appropriate space and environmental enrichment, and often in inappropriate groupings of animals; further notes that violence is commonplace and part of the circus culture, and no other working animals spend such a long time, normally at least eight months, in temporary mobile accommodation, thus making animal transport regulations difficult to police and enforce, and that the arrangements for circus animals are entirely different from the higher quality accommodation and transport arrangements of animals being transported for racing, horse shows, dog shows and similar events; and therefore urges that the Animal Welfare Bill is used to end the use of animals in travelling circuses and to take measures to protect performing animals in permanent facilities through regulation and to end the currently legal use of violence to train animals for the purposes of entertainment.

Signatures( 144)

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Hancock, Mike
Hoyle, Lindsay
Russell, Bob
Meale, Alan
Leech, John
Cohen, Harry
Jones, Lynne
Brooke, Annette
Dismore, Andrew
Flynn, Paul
Holmes, Paul
Burgon, Colin
Caton, Martin
Corbyn, Jeremy
Cryer, Ann
Baker, Norman
Vis, Rudi
Williams, Roger
Williams, Stephen
Pope, Greg
Jenkins, Brian
Horwood, Martin
Olner, Bill
Osborne, Sandra
Challen, Colin
Cook, Frank
Etherington, Bill
Foster, Don
Stunell, Andrew
Williams, Betty
Wood, Mike
Hodgson, Sharon
Penning, Mike
Devine, Jim
Sanders, Adrian
Owen, Albert
Cummings, John
Dean, Janet
Drew, David
Widdecombe, Ann
Moon, Madeleine
Hunter, Mark
Abbott, Diane
Austin, John
Cooper, Rosie
Dowd, Jim
Ennis, Jeff
Barrett, John
Marshall-Andrews, Robert
Simpson, Alan
Dobbin, Jim
Efford, Clive
Burt, Lorely
Featherstone, Lynne
Riordan, Linda
Howarth, David
O'Hara, Edward
Gibson, Ian
Taylor, David
Ruddock, Joan
Hopkins, Kelvin
Kaufman, Gerald
Clapham, Michael
Fisher, Mark
Mackinlay, Andrew
Doran, Frank
Benton, Joe
Taylor, Richard
Griffith, Nia
James, Sian C
Johnson, Diana R
Swinson, Jo
Smith, Geraldine
Horam, John
Kemp, Fraser
Khabra, Piara S
McCafferty, Chris
Todd, Mark
Watkinson, Angela
Huhne, Chris
Turner, Desmond
Goldsworthy, Julia
Main, Anne
Chaytor, David
Field, Frank
Wareing, Robert N
Keetch, Paul
Cable, Vincent
McCarthy-Fry, Sarah
Williams, Mark
Burden, Richard
Anderson, Janet
Clark, Katy
Jones, Martyn
Marris, Rob
Gilroy, Linda
Amess, David
Alexander, Danny
McCarthy, Kerry
Crausby, David
Francis, Hywel
Hamilton, David
Williams, Hywel
Anderson, David
Pritchard, Mark
Illsley, Eric
Willis, Phil
Rogerson, Daniel
Prosser, Gwyn
Hughes, Simon
Keen, Alan
Lazarowicz, Mark
Buck, Karen
Gidley, Sandra
Hamilton, Fabian
Wright, Anthony D
Wyatt, Derek
Younger-Ross, Richard
Kramer, Susan
Reed, Jamie
Bruce, Malcolm
Heyes, David
Gerrard, Neil
Harvey, Nick
McDonnell, Alasdair
Carmichael, Alistair
Naysmith, Doug
George, Andrew
Smith, John P
Thornberry, Emily
Willott, Jenny
Clegg, Nick
Berry, Roger
Brake, Tom
Lamb, Norman
Cruddas, Jon
Brown, Lyn
Butler, Dawn
Ussher, Kitty
Davey, Edward
Trickett, Jon
Love, Andrew
Morgan, Julie
Mulholland, Greg