Animal Welfare In Circuses

EDM number 948 in 2008-09, proposed by John Austin on 03/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Animal welfare.

That this House shares the RSPCA's deep concern at the recent introduction of elephants into a circus in Nottinghamshire; hopes that the public will boycott the circus in protest; believes that the Government should intervene in this case and state categorically that it opposes the use of wild species in circuses; and urges the Government to bring forward proposals to ban the use of wild animals in circuses without further delay.

This motion has been signed by a total of 110 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.