Quarantine And Rabies Control

EDM number 383 in 1996-97, proposed by John Heppell on 14/01/1997.

That this House welcomes the RSPCA's review of the United Kingdom's system of quarantine and rabies control; notes that the review concluded that rabies vaccines are now very effective and failure rates are minute, blood tests to check that the vaccine is effective are now standardised, international standards for microchips have now been agreed, there has been no proven case of rabies in quarantine in the United Kingdom in the last 25 years, the EU rabies eradication programme has reduced the rabies-infected area in Western Europe to only 130 square miles, Sweden, which introduced a system of vaccination, blood testing and permanent identification in 1995, has reported no health or security problems, the costs and inconvenience of quarantine lead many pet owners to smuggle animals into the United Kingdom, there are no statutory welfare standards for quarantine kennels and in a recent NOP survey, 86 per cent. of people said they would accept an alternative system to quarantine if it was scientifically proven to keep the United Kingdom rabies-free; supports the RSPCA view that a system of vaccination, blood testing and permanent identification for cats and dogs from EU countries which are recognised by the World Health Organisation as being rabies-free in those species would provide the United Kingdom with equal, if not greater protection against rabies as quarantine; and therefore calls upon Her Majesty's Government to commission a full-scale risk assessment and full economic audit to determine how a different system could be effectively implemented to maintain the United Kingdom's rabies-free status.

This motion has been signed by a total of 59 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John Heppell	14/01/1997	Nottingham East		Proposed
Eric Clarke	14/01/1997	Midlothian		Signed
Harry Cohen	14/01/1997	Leyton		Signed
Ian Davidson	14/01/1997	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Neil Gerrard	14/01/1997	Walthamstow		Signed
John Gunnell	14/01/1997	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Harry Barnes	14/01/1997	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	14/01/1997	St Helens South		Signed
George Stevenson	14/01/1997	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	14/01/1997	Bradford South		Signed
Paddy Tipping	14/01/1997	Sherwood		Signed
Michael Clapham	14/01/1997	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Bill Olner	14/01/1997	Nuneaton		Signed
Alan Meale	14/01/1997	Mansfield		Signed
David Hanson	14/01/1997	Delyn		Signed
Colin Pickthall	14/01/1997	West Lancashire		Signed
Ian Pearson	14/01/1997	Dudley West		Signed
Terry Rooney	14/01/1997	Bradford North		Signed
Peter Snape	14/01/1997	West Bromwich East		Signed
Keith Hill	14/01/1997	Streatham		Signed
Roy Hughes	14/01/1997	Newport East		Signed
David Jamieson	14/01/1997	Plymouth, Devonport		Signed
Terry Lewis	14/01/1997	Worsley		Signed
Alice Mahon	14/01/1997	Halifax		Signed
John Cummings	15/01/1997	Easington		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	15/01/1997	Leigh		Signed
Donald Dixon	15/01/1997	Jarrow		Signed
Mike Gapes	15/01/1997	Ilford South		Signed
Mike Hall	15/01/1997	Warrington South		Signed
Dennis Turner	15/01/1997	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jean Corston	15/01/1997	Bristol East		Signed
Keith Bradley	15/01/1997	Manchester, Withington		Signed
John Home Robertson	15/01/1997	East Lothian		Signed
Helen Jackson	15/01/1997	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Brian Jenkins	15/01/1997	Staffordshire South East		Signed
Lynne Jones	15/01/1997	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Ken Livingstone	15/01/1997	Brent East		Signed
Bill Michie	15/01/1997	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Win Griffiths	16/01/1997	Bridgend		Signed
Norman Godman	16/01/1997	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Maria Fyfe	16/01/1997	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Kevin Hughes	16/01/1997	Doncaster North		Signed
Nick Harvey	16/01/1997	North Devon		Signed
Alan Simpson	16/01/1997	Nottingham South		Signed
Tony Banks	16/01/1997	Newham North West		Signed
Rachel Squire	20/01/1997	Dunfermline West		Signed
Malcolm Bruce	21/01/1997	Gordon		Signed
Michael Connarty	21/01/1997	Falkirk East		Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	21/01/1997	Perth and Kinross		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/01/1997	Wansbeck		Signed
Richard Burden	22/01/1997	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Andrew Bowden	22/01/1997	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Bill Etherington	23/01/1997	Sunderland North		Signed
John Marshall	23/01/1997	Hendon South		Signed
Martyn Jones	30/01/1997	Clwyd South West		Signed
Nigel Jones	04/02/1997	Cheltenham		Signed
Anne Campbell	11/02/1997	Cambridge		Signed
Eric Martlew	13/02/1997	Carlisle		Signed
Terry Davis	05/03/1997	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed

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