Parliament Website

Broiler Chickens

EDM number 790 in 2005-06, proposed by Nick Harvey on 18/10/2005.

That this House notes with regret that broiler chickens are the only UK farmed animal without specific legal protection; further notes the report produced on 21st March 2000 by the EU's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (SCAHAW) examining broiler chicken production, which concluded that broiler chickens would face serious problems if stocking density exceeds 30kg per square metre; regrets that the current recommended stocking density is 34kg per square metre, allowing each bird an area of 0.05 metres squared; further notes with concern that there is no legal upper limit on stocking densities; further notes the announcement in June of this year of the proposal for a Council directive laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production; further notes that a five year time frame has been placed on the adoption of this directive; regrets that this will mean no action being taken on this urgent animal welfare issue for up to 10 years following the publication of the damning SCAHAW report; and therefore calls upon the Government to introduce legislation as soon as possible to prevent the unnecessary suffering of thousands of broiler chickens.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nick Harvey18/10/2005North DevonLiberal DemocratProposed
Alan Simpson18/10/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones18/10/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley18/10/2005Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Colin Breed18/10/2005South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Gordon Banks18/10/2005Ochil and South PerthshireLabourSeconded
Bob Russell18/10/2005ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore19/10/2005HendonLabourSigned
John Leech19/10/2005Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis19/10/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Taylor19/10/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock19/10/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings19/10/2005EasingtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/10/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton19/10/2005GowerLabourSigned
Alan Meale19/10/2005MansfieldLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty19/10/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Paul Holmes19/10/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Prentice19/10/2005PendleLabourSigned
Adam Price20/10/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Christopher Huhne20/10/2005EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Moore20/10/2005Berwickshire, Roxburgh and SelkirkLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke20/10/2005Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson20/10/2005Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell20/10/2005Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford21/10/2005ElthamLabourSigned
Stephen Williams21/10/2005Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland21/10/2005Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Horwood21/10/2005CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell21/10/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/10/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming21/10/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh24/10/2005SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
David Heyes24/10/2005Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Janet Dean24/10/2005BurtonLabourSigned
Betty Williams24/10/2005ConwyLabourSigned
Eric Martlew25/10/2005CarlisleLabourSigned
Ann Cryer25/10/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Paul Flynn25/10/2005Newport WestLabourSigned
Lynda Waltho25/10/2005StourbridgeLabourSigned
Rob Marris26/10/2005Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins26/10/2005TamworthLabourSigned
Kate Hoey26/10/2005VauxhallLabourSigned
Vincent Cable27/10/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jessica Morden27/10/2005Newport EastLabourSigned
David Drew28/10/2005StroudLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/10/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Lyn Brown28/10/2005West HamLabourSigned
Julia Goldsworthy28/10/2005Falmouth and CamborneLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch01/11/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker01/11/2005LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake02/11/2005Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Devine03/11/2005LivingstonLabourSigned
Marsha Singh07/11/2005Bradford WestLabourSigned
Jo Swinson21/11/2005East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned

Download raw data as csv or xml.