European Zoos
EDM number 786 in 1995-96, proposed by Tony Banks on 24/04/1996.
That this House expresses its great concern at the appalling conditions facing animals in many of Europe's zoos; is horrified that, even approaching the turn of the century, many animals are kept in conditions so atrocious that they have become insane; applauds the European Union's proposal in the form of a draft European Zoo Directive aimed at introducing minimum welfare standards to address this unnecessary suffering; notes that such a draft directive has the full support of both the responsible zoo world in the form of the National Federation for Zoos and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria and the zoo world's most strident critics, namely the Born Free Foundation and The World Society for the Protection of Animals; is concerned that Her Majesty's Government regards the issues raised by such draft directive as being subject to subsidiarity; further notes that the draft directive has been returned by the European Commission to the European Parliament in the demoted form of a recommendation; is aware of the forthcoming bilateral meeting of the Prime Minister and the German Chancellor to discuss issues of subsidiarity and animal welfare; and calls upon the Prime Minister to reject the notion of subsidiarity as it might be applied to the issues of Europe's zoos and to seek, in particular, with the German Chancellor and colleagues throughout Europe, the earliest possible reintroduction of the proposed zoo measures in the form of a full directive or better still a regulation to address the widespread and unregulated animal suffering in zoos.
This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Tony Banks | 24/04/1996 | Newham North West | Proposed | |
John Gunnell | 24/04/1996 | Leeds South and Morley | Seconded | |
Simon Hughes | 24/04/1996 | Southwark and Bermondsey | Seconded | |
Robert Parry | 25/04/1996 | Liverpool, Riverside | Signed | |
Harry Barnes | 25/04/1996 | North East Derbyshire | Signed | |
Win Griffiths | 25/04/1996 | Bridgend | Signed | |
Diane Abbott | 25/04/1996 | Hackney North & Stoke Newington | Signed | |
Norman Godman | 25/04/1996 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
Neil Gerrard | 25/04/1996 | Walthamstow | Signed | |
Bill Michie | 25/04/1996 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
William McKelvey | 25/04/1996 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | Signed | |
Eddie Loyden | 25/04/1996 | Liverpool, Garston | Signed | |
Ken Livingstone | 25/04/1996 | Brent East | Signed | |
Lynne Jones | 25/04/1996 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
Keith Hill | 25/04/1996 | Streatham | Signed | |
Ernie Ross | 25/04/1996 | Dundee West | Signed | |
Joyce Quin | 29/04/1996 | Gateshead East | Signed | |
Elliot Morley | 29/04/1996 | Glanford and Scunthorpe | Signed | |
Andrew Faulds | 29/04/1996 | Warley East | Signed | |
Audrey Wise | 30/04/1996 | Preston | Signed | |
Andrew Bowden | 30/04/1996 | Brighton, Kemptown | Signed | |
Alan Beith | 30/04/1996 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Signed | |
Maria Fyfe | 30/04/1996 | Glasgow, Maryhill | Signed | |
Kenneth Eastham | 30/04/1996 | Manchester, Blackley | Signed | |
Keith Bradley | 30/04/1996 | Manchester, Withington | Signed | |
Alf Morris | 30/04/1996 | Manchester Wythenshawe | Signed | |
Martyn Jones | 30/04/1996 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
Roy Hughes | 30/04/1996 | Newport East | Signed | |
Peter Hardy | 30/04/1996 | Wentworth | Signed | |
Joan Ruddock | 30/04/1996 | Lewisham, Deptford | Signed | |
Roland Boyes | 30/04/1996 | Houghton and Washington | Signed | |
Edward O'Hara | 01/05/1996 | Knowsley South | Signed | |
James Callaghan | 01/05/1996 | Heywood & Middleton | Signed | |
Jean Corston | 01/05/1996 | Bristol East | Signed | |
Ian Davidson | 01/05/1996 | Glasgow, Govan | Signed | |
Tommy Graham | 01/05/1996 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | Signed | |
Joan Walley | 01/05/1996 | Stoke-on-Trent North | Signed | |
Eric Illsley | 02/05/1996 | Barnsley Central | Signed | |
Bill Olner | 07/05/1996 | Nuneaton | Signed | |
John Heppell | 08/05/1996 | Nottingham East | Signed | |
Roger Godsiff | 08/05/1996 | Birmingham Small Heath | Signed | |
Mike Hall | 08/05/1996 | Warrington South | Signed | |
Doug Hoyle | 09/05/1996 | Warrington North | Signed | |
Bill Etherington | 09/05/1996 | Sunderland North | Signed | |
Ann Clwyd | 10/05/1996 | Cynon Valley | Signed | |
John Gilbert | 14/05/1996 | Dudley East | Signed | |
Mike Gapes | 16/05/1996 | Ilford South | Signed | |
Llin Golding | 16/05/1996 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Signed | |
Nigel Jones | 21/05/1996 | Cheltenham | Signed | |
Nick Harvey | 22/05/1996 | North Devon | Signed | |
David Chidgey | 17/06/1996 | Eastleigh | Signed |
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