Tackling Dog Attacks On Postmen And Postwomen

EDM number 249 in 2013-14, proposed by Valerie Vaz on 13/06/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial health and safety and Postal services.

That this House notes that the number of dog attacks on postmen and postwomen in the UK is too high; is concerned by the frequency of attacks on workers and a lack of appropriate action in response; further notes that Royal Mail estimates that over 3,000 postmen and postwomen were attacked between April 2011 and April 2012; believes that no postal workers should face increased risk and fear of dog attacks because of their profession; further notes that England is soon to be the only part of the UK without updated dog laws; welcomes the provisions already contained within the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill for the protection of postal workers when they enter customers' gardens to deliver the post; and calls on the Government to fill two loopholes in the Bill to protect an individual if attacked in a communal area of a block of flats and to provide further remedy if the person is bitten when pushing mail or other items through a letter box.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.