Statutory Monitoring Of The Treatment Of Animals In Slaughterhouses

EDM number 719 in 2015-16, proposed by Paul Monaghan on 18/11/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare and Information technology.

That this House reflects on the 2015 report of the Farm Animal Welfare Committee, specifically the report's recommendations regarding the use of closed circuit television in slaughterhouses; and calls on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to implement arrangements to place the monitoring of closed circuit television on a statutory basis to ensure that consumers accrue maximum benefit in terms of both developing quality standards and reducing opportunity for animal crime.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.