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Export Of Live Farm Animals

EDM number 228 in 1997-98, proposed by Mike Hancock on 09/07/1997.

That this House is alarmed to learn that the United Kingdom exported around one million farm animals, mainly sheep and lambs but also pigs, for slaughter in 1996; believes that long export journeys often inflict great suffering on the animals, a significant number of which end up in abattoirs in Spain, Italy and Greece, countries where slaughter methods can be extremely cruel; notes that a 1996 research paper by the University of Bristol concludes that 'from a welfare point of view, transport distances and times should be kept to the minimum' and that long journeys can result in increased levels of diseases and mortality; welcomes the training and licensing provisions in the new Transport Order but believes that the new rules will do nothing to reduce journey times with exporters still being able to transport sheep and lambs to Southern Europe; believes that a trade which regularly imposes suffering on animals is not only bad for animal welfare but also for the rural economy and accordingly that the export of live animals for slaughter abroad should be brought to an end and replaced by a trade in carcass exports; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to do all it can to bring the cruel live export trade to an end as a matter of urgency and to persuade the United Kingdom's EU partners to replace long distance live transport throughout the EU with a trade in meat.

This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Hancock09/07/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratProposed
James Plaskitt09/07/1997Warwick & LeamingtonLabourSigned
Robin Corbett09/07/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
Phil Willis09/07/1997Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley10/07/1997Worthing WestConservativeSigned
David Taylor10/07/1997North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Paul Stinchcombe10/07/1997WellingboroughLabourSigned
Gerry Steinberg10/07/1997Durham, City ofLabourSigned
Harry Barnes10/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Norman Godman10/07/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Bill Etherington10/07/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Bill Michie10/07/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon10/07/1997HalifaxLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone10/07/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Paul Keetch10/07/1997HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones10/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Colin Pickthall10/07/1997West LancashireLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe11/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Bob Russell14/07/1997ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara14/07/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Tom Cox14/07/1997TootingLabourSigned
Jackie Ballard14/07/1997TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor14/07/1997Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Audrey Wise15/07/1997PrestonLabourSigned
Jenny Tonge15/07/1997Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn15/07/1997SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Brand15/07/1997Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Dennis Skinner15/07/1997BolsoverLabourSigned
Brian Cotter15/07/1997Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham16/07/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie16/07/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin16/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe17/07/1997WakefieldLabourSigned
Nigel Jones17/07/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/07/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer17/07/1997KeighleyLabourSigned
John Cummings17/07/1997EasingtonLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore17/07/1997HendonLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis17/07/1997Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Tommy Graham17/07/1997West RenfrewshireLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell18/07/1997Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Love22/07/1997EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ivor Caplin22/07/1997HoveLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara23/07/1997Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins24/07/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell24/07/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Tom Brake24/07/1997Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chaytor24/07/1997Bury NorthLabourSigned
Tony Colman24/07/1997PutneyLabourSigned
Alan Williams24/07/1997Swansea WestLabourSigned
Dennis Turner29/07/1997Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Gunnell30/07/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Robert Wareing27/11/1997Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Harry Cohen11/03/1998Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Terry Davis11/03/1998Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Graham Stringer23/07/1998Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned

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