Horse Passports (EDM516)

Horse Passports

EDM number 516 in 2003-04, proposed by James Gray on 02/02/2004.

That this House believes that the Government could have satisfied the EU's concerns about veterinary medicines entering the food chain by requiring proper certification accompanying any horse being presented at an abattoir for slaughter for food; argues that the introduction of compulsory horse passports with effect from 1st July is therefore a bureaucratic, interventionist and unenforceable solution to a problem which does not exist, and is a classic example of unnecessary gold-plating of an EU directive; is further concerned that in addition to the cost of the passport itself, the Government has now announced that veterinary certification of the description of the horse on the document will be compulsory from 31st January, thereby adding considerably to the overall cost of the scheme, which probably now represents a Ãº50 million burden on the horse industry; and calls on the Government to remove the compulsory nature of the document when it redrafts the currently defective statutory instrument implementing it.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
James Gray	02/02/2004	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Proposed
John Randall	02/02/2004	Uxbridge	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	02/02/2004	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Hugo Swire	02/02/2004	East Devon	Conservative	Signed
Anne McIntosh	02/02/2004	Vale of York	Conservative	Signed
Peter Luff	02/02/2004	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Ian Liddell-Grainger	02/02/2004	Bridgwater	Conservative	Signed
Julian Lewis	02/02/2004	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Caroline Spelman	02/02/2004	Meriden	Conservative	Signed
Stephen O'Brien	03/02/2004	Eddisbury	Conservative	Signed
David Burnside	03/02/2004	South Antrim	UUP	Signed
Edward Garnier	03/02/2004	Harborough	Conservative	Signed
Simon Thomas	03/02/2004	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
John Whittingdale	03/02/2004	Maldon & East Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	04/02/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Annabelle Ewing	04/02/2004	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
Peter Duncan	04/02/2004	Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	Conservative	Signed
Gregory Campbell	04/02/2004	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Tim Loughton	04/02/2004	East Worthing & Shoreham	Conservative	Signed
Iris Robinson	05/02/2004	Strangford	DUP	Signed
John McDonnell	05/02/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Vincent Cable	05/02/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Hunter	09/02/2004	Basingstoke	Independent Conservative	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	09/02/2004	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jenny Tonge	10/02/2004	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gregory Barker	10/02/2004	Bexhill & Battle	Conservative	Signed
Adrian Flook	10/02/2004	Taunton	Conservative	Signed
Howard Flight	10/02/2004	Arundel & South Downs	Conservative	Signed
George Osborne	10/02/2004	Tatton	Conservative	Signed
Patrick Mercer	10/02/2004	Newark	Conservative	Signed
Jonathan Sayeed	10/02/2004	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Jeff Ennis	10/02/2004	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Signed
Oliver Heald	11/02/2004	North East Hertfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Michael Mates	11/02/2004	East Hampshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Murrison	11/02/2004	Westbury	Conservative	Signed
Julian Brazier	11/02/2004	Canterbury	Conservative	Signed
Nigel Evans	11/02/2004	Ribble Valley	Conservative	Signed
Malcolm Moss	12/02/2004	North East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Mark Field	12/02/2004	Cities of London & Westminster	Conservative	Signed
Cheryl Gillan	12/02/2004	Chesham & Amersham	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Selous	23/02/2004	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Nicholas Soames	23/02/2004	Mid Sussex	Conservative	Signed
David Amess	23/02/2004	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Theresa May	24/02/2004	Maidenhead	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	24/02/2004	Romford	Conservative	Signed
James Paice	01/03/2004	South East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Gary Streeter	02/03/2004	South West Devon	Conservative	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	02/03/2004	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Philip Hammond	09/03/2004	Runnymede & Weybridge	Conservative	Signed
Eric Pickles	11/03/2004	Brentwood & Ongar	Conservative	Signed
Nick Harvey	15/03/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Fabricant	22/03/2004	Lichfield	Conservative	Signed
Sydney Chapman	25/03/2004	Chipping Barnet	Conservative	Signed
David Wilshire	25/03/2004	Spelthorne	Conservative	Signed
John Bercow	19/04/2004	Buckingham	Conservative	Signed
Roger Williams	29/04/2004	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Charles Hendry	05/05/2004	Wealden	Conservative	Signed
Chris Grayling	24/06/2004	Epsom & Ewell	Conservative	Signed
Bill Wiggin	24/06/2004	Leominster	Conservative	Signed
David Willetts	29/06/2004	Havant	Conservative	Signed

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